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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

Uri Bar-Joseph

Review “Trenchant, serpentine…. Packed with jaw-dropping and intimate details…. Bar-Joseph has done a laudable...

The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell ( Assassination Vacation ) revisits...

The Richard Burton Diaries

Richard Burton

Come to this volume for the love story, stay for the lit talk. . . . Burton’s diaries, published now for the first...

Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

Mike Birbiglia

About the Author Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, author, actor, and director. His one person shows Sleepwalk with Me and...

Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

O. V. Khlevni︠u︡k

A] beautifully constructed, lucid, and brief new life of the dictator. . . . Written with fluent sobriety and humour...

Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir (P.S.)

Kelle Hampton

“Bloom is one of the most emotionally stirring books I’ve ever read…. This story is a reminder that perfect, when...

Hurry up Nurse 2: London Calling

Dawn Brookes

I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the development of health care An excellent read after the...

Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe

A breakthrough work... What Thorpe accomplishes in SOLDIER GIRLS is something far greater than describing the...

The Road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

Sheer delight." --Washington Post"A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several...

Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer

Lois Duncan

“Duncan’s anguish and frustration surface on practically every page of this sad but intriguing mystery. Her forays...

Farewell to Prague

Miriam Darvas

Life," Darvas writes, is "the history of individual tragedies" not such a surprising sentiment from an author who first...

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

Laurence Bergreen

“Sumptuous. . . . A full-blooded rendition of Polo's astonishingh journey. . . . Richly researched and vividly...

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

Anya Von Bremzen

“Delightful . . . The culinaryxa0memoir has lately evolved into a genre of its own, what is now known as a...

The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.

Jennifer Baggett

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Friends Pressner, Baggett, and Corbett were all busy climbing the corporate...

Socrates: A Man for Our Times

Paul Johnson

Praise for Socrates by Paul Johnson: “An admirably concise view of a remarkable life whose influence remains central...

How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour De France (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)

Ned Boulting

Candid, insightful and often hilarious. . . . Anyone who likes France, cycling, media coverage of sport, obsessives and...

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

Julian Rubinstein

A story of the sort that would make even the most dry-mouthed journalist slobber. Sometimes sad, often hilarious and...

Breaking Dad

Warren FitzGerald

Few stories are quite as extraordinary as this...As well as a story of a descent it's also a story of a rebirth."...

Hillbilly Heart: A Memoir

Todd Gold

Review “The first time I met Billy Ray I felt like I had known him all of my life. I still feel the same way today....

A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger

Shaun Greenhalgh

A masterpiece of masquerade...a brilliantly wily reflection on the seductions of art and corruptions of the art world."...

Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey

Patricia Harman

Praise for Arms Wide Open "There are more honest, revealing moments here than in many memoirs. Harman, whose prose is...

Churchill: A Biography Part 1

Roy Jenkins

As a veteran politician and administrator, Jenkins is well placed to evaluate Churchill's strengths and weaknesses as a...

Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose

Paris Hilton

From Publishers Weekly Heiress, socialite, model, actress, singer and media darling Hilton loves her life, knows how to...

Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (with "I LOVE LUCY's Lost Scenes" Audio CD)

Gregg Oppenheimer

From The New Yorker If you love Lucy, you'll love this book (and CD). If you love Lucy, you'll love this book (and CD)....