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Ce n'est pas la montagne que l'on conquiert, mais soi-même.

This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World).

“A pleasant, chatty book on a fascinating subject.” —Kirkus Reviews. Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them.

The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency—wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time.

National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).

Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution.

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.

The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment.

A mother recounts her interactions with the US government as she struggled to bring home her abducted daughters from Saudi Arabia.

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of *Passing for Thin*, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim.

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice.

"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." - Chicago Tribune. Christian G.

Kim Hyesoon's poems "create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other" (*Sean O'Brien, The Indep

“Much will be made—and rightly so—of the eloquent commentary [Lam’s] essays provide on Vietnam and the Vietnamese . . .