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Sam Sheridan has an impressive, diverse set of skills, but when he had his son, he was beset with nightmares about being unable to protect him.

On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvation--and one hundred miles from base camp.

In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the n

They were the original power couple--outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating.

In 2006, Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth--nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security.

Each the subject of innumerable biographies, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. William C.

Human rights activist Lisa Shannon weaves together the stories of one family's tragic encounters with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo with tales from the family's rich and vibrant

Dive deep into the world of weather with meteorologist, Al Roker.

Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison--an American and a Brit, both married to Dutchmen and raising their kids in the Netherlands--report back on what makes Dutch kids so happy and well adjusted.

In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as a crystal meth and heroin addict.

Mick Fleetwood sheds new light on well-known points in his history, including many incredible moments of recording and touring with Fleetwood Mac, as well as personal insights from a man who has be

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been held at Guantánamo, Cuba, though he has never been charged with a crime.

Cory Doctorow takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. This is an essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts.

A collection of three novellas from New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison, in which an aging Montana-based writer copes with an unplanned litter of piglets, a woman attempts to have a chil

James Donovan was a larger-than-life figure who led a fascinatingly varied career, primarily as a negotiator on behalf of prisoners.