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The author helps us move beyond the perils and frustrations of misrepresentation and misunderstanding to learn the listening and speaking skills that will forever change how we experience and impac

How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.

Oscar Pistorius was eleven months old when he had both legs amputated below the knee, due to congenital fibular disease.

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Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir.

Most of us live in a constant state of fear--of our past, of illness and aging and death, and of losing the things we treasure most.

Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars.

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--which is to say, all of us.

In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and li

A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy--usi

Most people are stuck living life on autopilot. Are you ready to break free?