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As You Do: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice President of Botswana . . .

Richard Hammond

Hammond's] prose reveals him as a thoughtful, decent, generous-hearted man. He is capable of humility and his jokes are...

Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth

Lana Turner

Julia Jean Turner was born in Idaho in 1921. She relocated with her parents to San Francisco in early childhood. Aged...

Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

Nuala O'Faolain

“Are You Somebody is an extraordinary, powerful memoir. It is beautifully written, with an honesty that is both...

Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis is one of AmericaÂx92s preeminent rock journalists. His many rock biographies include, most recently,...

El pez en el agua

Mario Vargas Llosa

About the Author Mario Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010, nació en Arequipa, Perú, en 1936. Aunque había...

Strong Looks Better Naked

Khloe Kardashian

“Perfect.” — Cosmopolitan “Stunning. Basically anything and everything you’d ever want to know from the...

The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife

Peter Gatien

Review “The Limelight and Tunnel are long gone. But the story of their vilified owner is still being written…With...

Dear Fatty

Dawn French

Something of a revelation . . . in among the the gags and photos of her bare bosom, there is intellectual rigor and...

I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain

Robertson, Courtney

Courtney Robertson joined season 16 of The Bachelor looking for love. A working model and newly single, Courtney fit...

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Chuck Klosterman

“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . ....

Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

Richard Coles

Richard Coles is the presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He read Theology at King's College London, and after...

Come to the Edge: A Love Story

Christina Haag

“Lyrically and precisely recaptures the frenetic ecstasy of early love.” —The Washington Post “[A] wistful...

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation

Sheila Weller

Captivating. A strong amalgam of nostalgia, feminist history, astute insight, beautiful music and irresistible gossip....

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon---and the Journey of a Generation

Sheila Weller

From Publishers Weekly Weller's cultural history of the titans of women in rock in the 1970s details the artistic,...

Elsewhere: A Memoir

Richard Russo

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of 2012 “An intimate and powerful family story . . ....

American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood

Marc Eliot

From Publishers Weekly Eliot, biographer of stars ranging from Walt Disney to Bruce Springsteen, tackles the life,...

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison

An astounding triumph... A recovery memoir like no other...Jamison is a writer of prodigious ambition...Here, she's a...

John le Carre: The Biography

Adam Sisman

Review “What could have been a cloying hagiography or a lurid warts-and-all exposé is instead a balanced, focused...

Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

James B. Stewart

“Redstone has found his Ishmael in James B. Stewart, who has ventured once more into the corporate depths and...

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

Isabel Allende

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this deeply revealing second memoir, after Paula , novelist Allende ( The...

Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh

Kristin Casey

...a well-written and often harrowing tale of love, lust, and little packets of white powder."― ufeffHouston Press...

The Gilded Razor: A Book Club Recommendation!

Sam Lansky

This raw, beautifully observed memoir both terrifies and inspires." (People Magazine) “Lansky’s recounting of the...

Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

Jake Brennan

The rock 'n' roll version of the Peabody Award-winning Serial ." -- "Variety"Jake Brennan is writing from a crossroads-...

Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

Sarah Vowell

Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times Book Review Sarah Vowell is a madonna of Americana. People Wise, witty and...