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Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days

Jared Cade

A brilliant job of research... Jared Cade has succeeded where all we other writers failed to trace what really happened...

The Joke Man: Bow to Stern

Jackie Martling

About the Author For eighteen years, comedian Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling was a fixture of radio and...

My Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Maxim Gorki

The first book of an autobiographical trilogy by Maksim Gorky, published in Russian in 1913-14 as Detstvo. It was also...

Diana's Babies: Kate, William and the repair of a broken family

Angela Levin

About the Author Angela Levin is a British journalist and author. She writes for several national newspapers and...

When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

Leah Sottile

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOODxa0is a harrowing and fascinating tale of apocalyptic obsession and murder. Leah Sottile...

A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux

The books are whittled down to an intense core—not a confession but a kind of personal epistemology. ...xa0One way to...

Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess

Sally Bedell Smith

The Diana who was in search of herself was, according to this relatively beefy addition to the writings on the late...

The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer

J. Reuben Appelman

A powerful, confident voice in the new true-crime memoir genre. There comes a moment when the reader realizes this is a...

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

Sebastian Faulks

From Publishers Weekly In his first work of nonfiction, Faulks, a bestselling British novelist, takes up the brief but...

The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story

Frances Kiernan

Kiernan…brings out the fascinating paradoxes of Brooke Astor’s courageous, fiercely inventive career as a wife and...

Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands

Aatish Taseer

A subtle and poignant work by a young writer to watch."— V.S. Naipaul" Stranger to History is an amazing narrative: a...

I'm No Monster: The Horrifying True Story of Josef Fritzl

Stefanie Marsh

From Publishers Weekly Proving beyond a reasonable doubt the falsity of the title, London Times writers Marsh and...

Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

Geordie Greig

From Booklist *Starred Review* Lucian Freud (1922–2011), “the greatest realist figure painter of the twentieth...

My Reality

Melissa Rycroft Strickland

Melissa Rycroft , born in Dallas, Texas, is a reality TV star and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. She participated...

George Marshall: A Biography

Stanley P. Hirshson

By any standard, George C. Marshall looms large over the twentieth century. Debi and Irwin Unger's in-depth biography...

Alan Turing : The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

About the Author Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford University.

Almost Romance: A Memoir

Nancy Balbirer

Review “Touching and often laugh-out-loud funny…Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron fans will be utterly charmed.” ―...

In My Skin: A Memoir

Kate Holden

About the Author Kate Holden won the Judy Duffy Award for literary excellence for a draft manuscript of this book. She...

How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse

Mike Gilbert

From the Inside Flap You Don't Know the Full Truth About O.J. Simpson and the Murders that Gripped a Nation. But Mike...

For the Love of a Son

Jean Sasson

About the Author Jean Sasson is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East and the...

Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show

Dave Berg

From the Inside Flap [Jay] Leno's penchant for topicality and Berg's news background combined to add a political...

White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

Gregg Stebben

Review “Entertaining gossip, facts, anecdotes, and revelations about the men Americans have chosen to occupy the...

I Know I Am, But What Are You?

Samantha Bee

About the Author Samantha Bee lives with her husband, also former Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, and their...

The Confessions of an American Black Widow : A True Story of Greed, Lust and a Murderous Wife

Gregg Olsen

From Publishers Weekly True-crime author Olsen (Salt of the Earth) tells how Sharon Nelson, a Colorado woman, had her...