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Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine offers a behind-the-scenes take on writing and teaches you how to become a world-class author.

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.

Jon Acuff presents a guide to making big career changes by choice or necessity, and escaping the horrible feeling of being trapped in the wrong job.

Traces the theft of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from Oslo's National Gallery in 1994, recounting the efforts of art detective Charley Hill to recover the painting in an investig

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

Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, this book is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision, and a timely call to arms.

The memoir of a remarkable teenage girl who risked her life for the right to go to school.

This book presents an account of the sisters who represented style and class above all else, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, drawing on new information and extensive interviews to explore

Nobody knows survival like Bear Grylls.

Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family.

Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Cokie Roberts brings war-torn Washington, DC, into focus through the lives of i

Sally Field brings listeners behind the scenes of her star-studded career in Hollywood and deep into the truth of her lifelong relationships, including her complicated love for her own mother.