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Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

Laurie Becklund

Praise for Between Two Worlds : "...a torrent of vividly recalled memories [that] reads with the sort of artless verve...

The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

Chandler Burr

From Publishers Weekly Nobody knows for sure what makes our noses work the way they do, not even the $20-billion-a-year...

82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle

Robert L. Wise

A gritty, first-person account remembered from the vantage point of 75 years later. One can hear Shaw’s voice as if...

The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (New York Review Books Classics)

Michael McCarthy

“McCarthy takes his readers on an idiosyncratic and wonderful walk through his joy of nature. Like some of the...

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

Kirsten Holmstedt

About the Author Kirsten Holmstedt is a graduate of Drake University’s School of Journalism and the University of...

My Beautiful Struggle

Jordan Bone

Jordan Bone is a popular YouTuber, making beauty videos as well as opening up about her own life and sharing...

Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

Peter Guralnick

Peter Guralnick 's books include the prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and...

Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and...

Mud, Blood and Bullets: Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front

Edward Rowbotham

Edward Rowbotham survived a bullet wound to the temple, and won the Military Medal for bravery. Janet Tucker is Edward...

Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal

Ken Bensinger

A gripping white-collar crime thriller that, in its scope and human drama, ranks with some of the best investigative...

Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

Mike Scardino

Bad Call is a compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student's...

The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968

Keith William Nolan

Throughout 1968, U.S. Marine Corps units patrolled to the edge of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and manned combat...

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

Carlos M. N. Eire

A mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion. . . . Easily one of the more impressive memoirs on the...

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years

Michael Shelden

From Publishers Weekly Shelden ( Orwell ) centers on the writer's signature white suit—which first raised a ruckus...

WILLIAM & CATHERINE: Their Story

Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton--authorxa0of the groundbreaking 1992 biography Diana: Her True Story-- presents a photo-laden,...

Ho Chi Minh: A Life

William J. Duiker

Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) fought for half a century to free Vietnam from foreign domination, and the story of his life...

Galileo: And the Science Deniers

Mario Livio

One would have hoped that the Galileo story could be treated just as the fascinating history this book makes clear it...

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story

Joel Ben Izzy

From Publishers Weekly First-time author ben Izzy's vocation as a professional storyteller may fill his life with heady...

Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers

Craig Borlase

About the Author Martin Smith was the lead singer for the worship band Delirious? for seventeen years. Delirious? won...

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

Eboo Patel

From Publishers Weekly Patel, a former Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford, is the...

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain

A] smart and capacious history. . . . Throughout this impressively judicious book, [Chatelain] is attuned to the...

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

Susan Jacoby

“A must-read book.” —Bill Moyers, from “Moyers & Co” interview (Bill Moyers Moyers & Co. )“Jacoby succeeds...

Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

Miles J. Unger

This portrait of the 'uncrowned ruler of Florence' does great justice to this most intriguing of all Renaissance...

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill

Ralph G. Martin

Having spent 30 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Ralph Martin's Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolf Churchill...