What if the protagonist in that age-old tale--boy goes to war, comes back a man--were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many ... more »

There has never been a book like this, the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves. Beyond Valor, perhaps the most honest and brutal account of combat ever printed, is one of the most inspiring accounts of war ever produced, revealing shockingly frank reflections ... more »

GEISHA, A LIFE No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out. Celebrated ... more »

GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' That's what this book is about--the good times and the bad times. I wrote this book to explain the world I come from. To a lot of people, I may be too young to reflect on life. And they may be right. But I'd be wasting my blessings if I didn't use the attention I'm getting to shed ... more »

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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to ... more »

Here are the personal essays Reynolds Price broadacst on NPR's All Things Considered between 1995 and 2000, recounting his past and examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world. In these amusing, revealing, and refreshing pieces, Price ... more »

When Henry Dunow signs up to coach his son Max's Little League team on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he finds himself looking back on his own childhood and his father, Moishe, a Yiddish writer and refugee from Hitler's Europe, who had considered recreation like playing catch with his son narishkeit , ... more »

The amazing story of the thirteen-year-old surfer girl who lost her arm in a shark attack but never lost her faith -- and of her triumphant return to competitive surfing. They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the tremendous passion that drives her to surf? How ... more »

The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived. Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief ... more »

Die einundachtzigjährige Autorin Josefine Giebl schildert in ihrem Buch die Wandlung der Gesellschaft vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert anhand der Lebensgeschichte ihrer Mutter. In gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen aufgewachsen, begann diese ihre berufliche Laufbahn bei gut betuchten adeligen Familien als Erzieherin ... more »

The first American biography of one of film s greatest comedians, MR. STRANGELOVE is the story of a screamingly funny, desperately unhappy soul a man who thought he was empty. Sellers, who could mimic anyone and don any mask at will, was privately convinced that his personality had no core that there ... more »