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After the sudden death of her husband, a woman unearths surprising revelations about the man she was married to for seventeen years. A compulsively readable, darkly funny, posthumous love story about loss, grief, and unresolved relationships. Jessica Waite's successful, charismatic husband, Sean, is on his way home from a business trip when he collapses in a Houston airport. Having begun the day as a wife, by noon she is a widow and the sole living parent to their nine-year-old son.

Tout écrivain, tout grand homme a entretenu des relations épistolaires avec sa famille. Mais Saint-Exupéry était lié à la sienne par une affection et une tendresse de chaque instant.

Instant #1 bestseller. A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress—from origins to aftermath—as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.

Instant #1 national bestseller. Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d'Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill's secret army, the Special Operations Executive.

#1 New York Times Bestseller. The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. "An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story...Gripping." – The Washington Post. "One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the past fifty years." – Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker. Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today.

Time's #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year – A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Best Book of the Year – Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award – Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize and the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing – Longlisted for the Women's Prize – A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times – The New Yorker – The Economist – Chicago Public Library – CrimeReads – The Mary Sue.

Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – Finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 – New York Times Bestseller. "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller... Challenger is a remarkable book." – The Atlantic. "Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." – The New York Times. "Dramatic...a moving narrative." – The Wall Street Journal.

The Washington Post's Best Books of 2024—Eater's Best Food Books to Read This Spring. This "witty, humorous, and heartfelt" (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich's life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic. When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail.

Dans ce livre précieux, pour la première fois, le pape François nous raconte son histoire et partage avec nous ses souvenirs des événements qui ont marqué les XXe et XXIe siècles. Du début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, alors qu'il avait presque trois ans, à aujourd'hui, le pontife nous invite à un extraordinaire voyage couvrant des décennies. L'homme d'Église nous prend par la main pour nous conduire sur un chemin fait d'émotions, de joies et de peines, une fenêtre sur le passé qui nous permettra de mieux comprendre notre présent.

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick. A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked – yet hugely influential – figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting. Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power.