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In Courage to Soar – the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles – Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world – and how you too can overcome challenges in your life.

The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” – USA Today. In 1917, John R. Brinkley—America’s most brazen con man—introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men—and a national celebrity.

The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.

A "vivid, absorbing, and chilling" true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq (Lesley Stahl – 60 Minutes correspondent). AK-47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq – shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another American contractor is being held hostage. Hallums was the everyman behind that report—a fifty-six-year-old retired naval commander working as a food supply contractor in Baghdad's high-end Mansour District.

The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children. This edition also includes Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting. "On questions of how to live, the French never disappoint. Maybe it all starts with childhood. That is the conclusion that readers may draw from Bringing Up Bébé." -- The Wall Street Journal. "I've been a parent now for more than eight years, and -- confession -- I've never actually made it all the way through a parenting book.

"[An] account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh . . . as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read." -- Dennis Lehane, author of Small Mercies. Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. The six-year-old's 1981 abduction and murder in Hollywood, Florida -- unsolved for more than a quarter of a century -- forever changed America.

New York Times bestseller | Named a New York Times' Staff Favorite Book of 2024 and a Boston Globe Best Book of 2024. A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's most visible death doula. "A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world...

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography. Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/Biography. Selected as a Southwest Book of the Year Top Pick. Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment, Honorable Mention. A Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023. A New Yorker Best Book of 2023. "Thrilling, expertly paced, warmhearted."—Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle. The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.

Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz. A "captivating" (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there.

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph). Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.