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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious… Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” — The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s...
John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified...
A New York Times Critics' Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters...
A world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon shares the lessons of courage, compassion, and resilience that he's learned from his exceptional young patients. If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind human being. The medical world knows him as Fred...
The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman's doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer "blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch" ( The Boston Globe ). As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles...
The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a " vivid contemporary portrait of rural life " ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ). Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with...
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." — Douglas Brinkley An...
From the New York Times– bestselling author of The Rebel Romanov , an "absorbing account of the making of a queen through her awful, protracted grief" ( Kirkus Reviews ). As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a...
A prize-winning Montana writer's tribute to "a brilliant and mischievous chocolate brown pointer that will transfix anyone who has ever loved a dog" (Publishers Weekly). Â Colter pairs one of America's most treasured writers with our most treasured "best friend."...
A memoir from a man who discovers what matters most in life in the most unlikely of places—the last leper colony in the continental United States. Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious...