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History's People: Personalities and the Past (CBC Massey Lectures)

Margaret MacMillan

MacMillan deftly and engagingly shows that history is a process of capturing the minutiae of life as much as time’s...

Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You

Katherine Bouton

From Booklist *Starred Review* According to the latest statistics, 48 million Americans, or a whopping 17 percent of...

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

Ellen McGarrahan

“The experience of inhabiting that investigation with McGarrahan is so intense readers should experience it for...

London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency: A Memoir

Kate Macdougall

Readers will be delighted... This entertaining and lighthearted look at the life of a woman who took control of her own...

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

Paul M. Handley

From Publishers Weekly Early on, Handley declares that current king of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej's restoration of the...

Terror of the Autumn Skies: The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I

Blaine Lee Pardoe

About the Author Blaine Pardoe is a novelist and military historian. His books on the Great War include The Cruise of...

The Age of Bowie

Paul Morley

About the Author Paul Morley is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic who has covered music, art, and...

Al Pacino

Lawrence Grobel

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Journalist Grobel, who literally wrote the book on interviewing (The Art of the...

Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916

Peter Hart

Another dimension of the Somme battles by an established British historian." WWI Historical Foundation "This is a good...

The Good, The Bad, And Me: In My Anecdotage

Eli Wallach

PRAISE FOR THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND ME"[Wallach is] an excellent tour guide through his life, from Red Hook to the Army...

Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power

Mark Landler

An outstanding book on U.S. foreign policy over the past seven years, a work that is granular when it must be and...

An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

Annejet van der Zijl

Review “Set against the tumultuous history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this biography is...

How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran

“It is bracing in this season of losing [Nora] Ephron to discover a younger feminist writer who scrimmages with the...

All the Lies They Did Not Tell: The True Story of Satanic Panic in an Italian Community

Pablo Trincia

Review “A difficult read but an eye-opening story best suited for die-hard true-crime fans.” ― Kirkus Reviews...

The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

Andy Cohen

“A remarkable book . . . It's an important text when it comes to understanding what it is to be a gay man today.”...

Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War

Hildegarde Mahoney

“A heroic story of the love and strength of one family stranded in Japan just as Hitler made one of the worst...

Below Stairs

Margaret Powell

From Booklist The popularity of Sunday school among the working classes had less to do with religion than parents’...

Left for Dead (Movie Tie-in Edition): My Journey Home from Everest

Stephen G. Michaud

Review “Riveting . . . [a] remarkable survival story . . . Left for Dead takes a long, critical look at climbing:...

Here's Johnny!

Ed McMahon

From AudioFile Ed McMahon made his living as Johnny Carson's second banana, bantering with the "Tonight Show" host...

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington

Doris Pilkington ’s traditional name is Nugi Garimara. She was born in 1937 on Balfour Downs Station in the homeland...

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Sue Monk Kidd

Review Praise for Traveling with Pomegranates : “Thoughtful, honest, and uplifting.” — The Los Angeles Times...

Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in): The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

Shrabani Basu

A tale of Empire and intrigue, brought vividly back to life." --Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaire "If this...

My Salinger Year

Joanna Rakoff

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, June 2014: Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there existed a world in which...

Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends

Debbie Reynolds

“A frothy collection of stories and gossip from the comedic actress....Names drop like snowflakes, glistening in the...