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From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon.

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition. In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.

The true story of a disgraced journalist, the accused murderer who stole his identity, and their complex friendship -- now a major motion picture. In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media.

"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn't always think she'd live to tell her story." —The New York Times. A Buzzfeed Best Book of September. In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.

The instant New York Times Bestseller. "It's a mark of the highest honor when I say it's even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'." — The New York Times. From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir that "grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative." — LA Magazine. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point.

"Splendid... haunting and beautifully written."—Washington Post. The number one New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Post's notable works of nonfiction.

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.

"Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve" (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown.

#1 New York Times Bestseller — A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life.

Magellan est un récit historique de Stefan Zweig publié pour la première fois à Vienne (Autriche) en 1938. Il retrace la vie et les voyages du navigateur et explorateur portugais Fernand de Magellan, et en particulier le premier tour du monde de l'histoire de la navigation et la découverte du passage entre l'océan Atlantique et l'océan Pacifique par la pointe méridionale de l'Amérique du Sud — détroit qui porte désormais son nom.