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Too Fat to Fish

Anthony Bozza

From Publishers Weekly This debut memoir from the comedian best known as Howard Stern's radio show sidekick is scrappy,...

Audition: A Memoir

Barbara Walters

From Booklist *Starred Review* Audition might seem an odd title for this long-awaited autobiography. After all, who is...

Lips Unsealed: A Memoir

Belinda Carlisle

Generously confessional enough to give a compelling edge to her battle with substance abuse and her quest for spiritual...

My Life In The Wilderness: An Alaskan's Story

Robert L. Hilliker

Moving to Alaska is a lifelong dream of many people. Bob and his wife are two people who acted on their dream. Bob's...

Last Dance, Last Chance (8) (Ann Rule's Crime Files)

Ann Rule

Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The...

Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir

Pat Benatar

For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with songs like...

The Living Years

Mike Rutherford

Rutherford tells the story of his mildly subversive schooldays and the 40 years of his high-flying career in a mellow,...

Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers

Ann Rule

America's best true-crime writer." -- Kirkus Reviews ( Kirkus Review ) --This text refers to the mass_market edition....

Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

Carolyn Porter

“ Marcel’s Letters deftly portrays how a curiosity can grow into a search, and the search into an obsession. Having...

Bon: The Last Highway

Jesse Fink

Praise for Bon: The Last Highway by Jesse Fink: "A fascinating portrait of a troubled man with a serious alcohol...

The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created

Jane Leavy

“Magnificent.... All this is only to touch on the wealth of research, detail and astuteness of observation that make...

At Home in the World

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard's memoir At Home in the World is an attempt to make peace with herself. At times, however, it's hard not...

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

An engrossing and accessible chronicle of Frances’s life and the early years of scientific detection." ― The Wall...

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

Hugo Vickers

By crafting the perfect blend of juicy gossip and historical details, Vickers makes it abundantly clear why Alice...

China in Ten Words

Hua Yu

“Captures the heart of the Chinese. . . . If you think you know China, you will be challenged to think again. If you...

The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

Holmes's enthralling book itself exemplifies those qualities fostered by a scientific culture: "the sense of individual...

Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed

Robert Graysmith

“A SCARY AND DISTURBING ACCOUNT OF PURE EVIL.” —Booklist “FASCINATING...LIKE READING A BRAND NEW...

Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me

Karen Knotts

The cardinal rule for an actor to be a comedic hit on a sitcom or in the movies is 'Show me a man in trouble and I’ll...

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

Jennet Conant

This must have been an extremely difficult book to write. Its subject, Alfred Loomis, never gave interviews during his...

Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

The author's descriptive style is simple and straightforward and is quite effective in making the story vivid and...

Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family, Updated and Expanded

George Anastasia

Forget about it! This is the best gangster book ever written." --Jimmy Breslin GEORGE ANASTASIA, a veteran reporter for...

Jane Austen: A Life

Claire Tomalin

Brisk and sparkling—a page turner, in fact."- The New Yorker "A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting...

Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The...

The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

Barry Strauss

Barry Strauss has a rare gift for the crafting of narrative history: in his hands, figures who had seemed forever...