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Barbara Bush: A Memoir

Barbara Bush

Maureen Dowd The New York Times Book Review I always felt a poignancy in her story...wickedly funny. -- The Washington...

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

The Road Not Taken is an impressive work, an epic and elegant biography based on voluminous archival sources. It...

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of Canada Reads 2020 WINNER of the 2020 Lambda Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2020 Edna...

JACK KENNEDY: Elusive Hero

Chris Matthews

Review “If history at its best is about telling storiesthat bring the past to life, then Chris Matthews is a master...

American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant

Ann Tyson

“A momentous account… The overall story is enticing, brutal, and current.” — Publishers Weekly “An...

Wanderer

Sterling Hayden

...one unforgettable voyage...under a captain whose words may echo in your mind and whose attitude may inform your...

Princess: Secrets to Share

Jean Sasson

JEAN SASSON grew up in a small town in America's deep south before moving to the Middle East in 1978 to work at a...

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays

Kristi Coulter

Finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Awards "Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting...

Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw

Review “The definitive work on Carnegie for the foreseeable future, and it fully deserves to be.” —John Steele...

The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich

Daniel P. Bolger

“Gen. Rose’s story is now wonderfully told by Daniel Bolger, himself a three-star general who in retirement has...

A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman

Joan Anderson

From Publishers Weekly In A Year by the Sea and An Unfinished Marriage , Anderson shared her account of taking a break...

Rotten No Irish No Blacks No Dogs

John Lydon

From Publishers Weekly Britain's short-lived, notorious late-'70s punk band the Sex Pistols has become one of rock 'n'...

The Wives of Henry VIII

Antonia Fraser

When we think of the wives of Henry VIII, we tend to think of women who literally lost their heads. But Antonia Fraser...

The House on Sunset

Lindsay Fischer

Review About the Author Lindsay Fischer graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in...

I.M.: A Memoir

Isaac Mizrahi

Vogue : 25 Celebrity Memoirs That Are Actually Worth Reading O Magazine : 4 Best New Books to Read in February 2019...

Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It

Nick Carter

Nick Carter,xa0best known as an incredibly talented member of the Backstreet Boys, has endured a very public struggle...

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

David Ritz

From Publishers Weekly Pearson, who stars in HBO's The Wire , was born ill and underweight from her mother's drug...

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Howard Blum

“Howard Blum’s riveting and perturbing Dark Invasion …is well-researched and written, and it maintains a fairly...

Worth More Dead: And Other True Cases Vol. 10 (10) (Ann Rule's Crime Files)

Ann Rule

Go deep inside the darkest crimes and twisted minds of the most baffling killers and schemers -- with this collection...

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

Jacques Lusseyran

Review “A magical book, the kind that becomes a classic.”— Baltimore Sun “One of the most powerful memoirs...

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Dava Sobel

Sobel is a master storyteller...she brings a great scientist to life." — The New York Times Book Review . "Innovative...

Outside the Wire: Riding with the "Triple Deuce" in Vietnam, 1970

Jim Ross

About the Author Jim Ross is a travel writer and photographer with a special focus on Route 66 and Oklahoma. His...

Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich

Mark Kriegel

I grew up possessed by the legend of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich. I've marveled at the supernatural skills of Michael...

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (Simon & Schuster America Collection)

David O. Stewart

Crafting the Constitution was one of the most amazing collaborations in human history. David O. Stewart's book is both...