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The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse ... more »

My name is Justin. I guess I should go ahead and tell you I sing. -- Justin Timberlake at age eleven The meteoric rise of Justin Timberlake from one-fifth of boy band *NSYNC to one of the world's top male solo artists has been nothing short of extraordinary. But how did this precocious curly-haired boy ... more »

In this memoir, a man whose sage counsel and discretion brought him to the right hand of mayors, governors, and presidents, shares his personal recollections and impressions of leaders and events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. Here is the compelling story of the impact that a quiet ... more »

This lyrical memoir, telling of a spontaneous cross-country road trip following migrating birds, is one woman's reflections on midlife, her personal relationships, her kaleidoscopic past, and her uncertain future -- her ultimate acknowledgmnent of becoming part of a more fluid, wild, spare, elegant, ... more »

This is the true story of America's first black dynasty. The years after the Civil War represented an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more evident than in the personal history of Blanche Kelso ... more »

He was one of the most decorated cops in the history of NYPD. From his wiseguy relatives, he learned the meaning of honor and loyalty. From his fellow cops, he learned the meaning of betrayal. MAFIA COP His father, Ralph Fat the Gangster Eppolito, was stone-cold Mafia hit-man. Lou Eppolito, however, ... more »

On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a commando raid on an isolated Vietnamese hamlet called Thanh Phong. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: around midnight, Kerrey and his men killed at least 13 unarmed ... more »

Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco--and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed. Donna Summer was born on New Year's Eve in Boston. Her childhood ... more »

HE HAS TAKEN HIS GAME -- AND THE GAME -- TO A NEW LEVEL He grew up in Virginia with nothing but his talent and his heart. But he had The Plan: his never-say-die dream to become an NBA superstar. So he began his journey down a road full of obstacles. But the world underestimated Allen Iverson.... Fear ... more »

Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War--he lived through it, on the battlefields and along the picket lines. In so doing he gave birth to a chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. That some of these stories verge on the supernatural, others on factual chronicle ... more »

Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship, and ... more »