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A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. Here, A. N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man behind the mythic figure.

When New York Knicks basketball star Chris Fagan was diagnosed with ALS, his daughter Kate decided to leave her high-profile job at ESPN to be closer to him and take part in his care. Kate spent the last year of her father's life determined to return to him the kind of joy they once shared on the court. This is Kate Fagan's completely original reflection on the very specific bond that one father and daughter shared, forged in the love of a sport which over time came to mean so much more.

In this revealing tell-all, Charles Band details the dizzying heights and catastrophic depths of his four decades in showbiz.

In this memoir, Lilly Dancyger explores her own anger, grief, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her, as well as her own.

Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Kathleen Krull reveals Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for "scientist" back in the 1700s), a man whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity, including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection on craft and creativity.

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world's most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling. Each short chapter focuses on one author's life, using simple, entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

The Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over two hundred men, starting with their undergraduate days in 1938. George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement.

This biography, based on hundreds of documents and firsthand interviews, captures the complete arc of Bobby Fischer's remarkable life, from his meteoric rise and dominant prime to his descent into madness.

In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging the preeminent mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. It was the beginning of a collaboration with a true genius of the century.