Karen DeYoung is an associate editor at The Washington Post , where she has held a number of senior editing positions and served as a foreign policy reporter in Washington and correspondent abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards for foreign correspondence and for diplomatic and explanatory journalism ... more »

Summoned from abroad to attend to the ninety-four-year-old father he's never been close to, writer and musician Tony Cohan finds himself reliving his own peripatetic life--a kaleidoscopic odyssey from California's sunny postwar promise through the burnt end of the 1960s to the final days of the last ... more »

"My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen." -CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing When he was a kid singing in his church choir ... more »

Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He has thrived alongside a president who from day one had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's quiet, steady rise to prominence over a span of three decades occurred ... more »

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two ... more »

For all that we know of Tom Arnold--such as his role as Roseanne's husband and co-star, writer and executive producer of her hit comedy show--there's even more that we don't know, starting with the pitch-perfect, hilarious voice he brings to this raunchy recitation of past exploits. Cast in the form ... more »

In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest of his story, about his great American journey from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying run for ... more »

Now in paperback -- the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called "as charming and welcome as an early spring down home." As satisfying, soothing, and occasionally suprising as a plate of turnip greens with a dash of pepper sauce, Due South is a book to be read and savored. more »

efore The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant ... more »

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds ... more »

She thought she'd have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no-it's happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe "I'm going to kick his hair's ass!" to the ... more »

On sale 1/20/04! In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart ... more »