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Congressman Elijah Cummings details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, author Laura Lippman shares her take on a woman's life across the decades.

Vashti Harrison shines a light on black men through history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop culture icons.

To this day, the name "Andy Warhol" conjures his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.

Paul Hirsch, a film editor who worked on more than forty features, presents a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years.

In this follow-up to her memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her film career, including such classics as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.

This is a story of a magical life.

Now in a new edition for young readers, this is the true story of four African American female mathematicians known as "human computers" who helped John Glenn orbit the earth and Neil Armstrong wal

In 1911, a man was found, starving, in the corral of a slaughterhouse in California. He was eventually identified by an anthropologist as the last survivor of the exterminated Yahi Indian tribe.

Over the years, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business--and for Anthony Bourdain.

In 2009 Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol.

In this wise and revealing work of biography, reportage, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the world of George Eliot's Middlemarch, the life that the book made for her, and the many lives

The man who electrified the world with his amazing performance in Brazil opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette's syndrome defied the odds to bec

Hollywood legend Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career, and now his eighty-fifth year.

Based on the life experiences of his great-great-great-uncle who was kidnapped by Indians as a ten-year-old, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier and offers one of the few no