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Journalist Dave Cullen unfolds the story of Parkland through the voices of key participants. Instead of taking us into the mind of the killer, he takes us into the hearts of the Douglas students as they cope with the common concerns of high school students everywhere, while moving forward from a horrific event that has altered them forever.

This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike.

Between 1900 and 1907, in the forested foothills of the Himalayas, a large Bengal tiger locals called the Champawat Man-Eater claimed 436 lives. Desperate for help, authorities appealed to Jim Corbett, a local hunter and officer in the army. Like a police detective, Corbett questioned witnesses and tracked the tiger's movements, while it began to hunt Corbett in return.

Before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the California suburbs. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of punk, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and journeyed into a vibrant underground world of visionary musicians and artists. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the seventies. Through his account of how creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story.

Reema Zaman tells the story of her unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh, to Thailand, to New York, to Oregon, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting, poetic as it is political, and healing as it is haunting, Zaman explores the many difficulties, dangers, and, ultimately, the necessity for all women--all people--to own and use their voices.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences.

With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai starts with her own story of displacement to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her various journeys to refugee camps and the cities where refugee girls and their families have settled.

A memoir from screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook about the making of a classic film of the American west. Released in 1972, Junior Bonner is a modern-day western about a young, drifting rodeo star who decides to raise money for his father's ranch by challenging a formidable bull.

All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.