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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun--a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four--chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and rescuing those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.

Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.

Ivan Doig's prequel to his memoir "This house of sky" highlights his childhood before his mother's death and captures the texture of the American West, the fortunes of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.

Actress, producer, and acclaimed writer Annabelle Gurwitch--once fired from a play by Woody Allen--can find humor in any situation. Here she teams with her husband Jeff Kahn for a funny look at the ups and downs of marriage.

George III is portrayed as not only a competent ruler during most of his reign, but also as a patron of the arts and sciences, a man of wit and intelligence. Indeed, he was a man who greatly enhanced the reputation of the British monarchy until he was finally stricken with a rare hereditary disease.

Presents the definitive story of an American hero.

William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his phenomenal success in creating General Motors, Durant's meteoric career easily rivals the success stories of modern legends.

This is a frontline report from the trenches of American education. It chronicles a fifth grade class and its remarkable teacher.

When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti. It wasn't until she was 12 years old that Edwidge was finally reunited with her parents--and forced to confron teh inevitably complex emotions.