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From Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet...
A story of Cold War weather control and two remarkable men is "a gem . . . about science and politics that touches on big questions about ethics and progress" (San Francisco Chronicle). In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General...
"Far from growing up in the wealthy, fox-hunting circles . . .her mother had in fact been raised in a foundling hospital for the children of unwed women." —Editor's Choice, The New York Times Book ReviewJustine Cowan's remarkable true story begins when she found her...
"A testament to [Pryor's] stature not only as an African-American entertainment idol but also as an American icon . . . [An] exuberant tribute." —The New York Times Book ReviewRichard Pryor was arguably the single most influential performer of the second half of the...
"This dazzling writer has created a guidebook for growing up queer in the American South . . . a testament to human endurance and dignity." —Nick White, author of Sweet & Low  Growing up in a small town in the South, Julia and her childhood best friend Laura know the...
#1 International Bestseller: A frontline trauma surgeon tells his "riveting" true story of operating in the world's most dangerous war zones (The Times). Â For more than twenty-five years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world's most perilous...
The senator relates the decades-long fight for justice after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing—including his prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed. The blast killed four...
The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of...
Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Praise for Annie's Ghosts "Annie's Ghosts is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read . . . From mental institutions to the...
The deeply moving, Pulitzer Prize–nominated memoir of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp. In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There,...