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Instant New York Times bestseller — NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year. "A bittersweet study in both grief and joy." — Time. "A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes" (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age — from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving.

The instant New York Times bestseller. There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one of the most beloved actors of our time, the highly personal story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career.

A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential—from a career maître d'hôtel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants. From the glamorous to the entitled—from royalty to the financially ruined—everyone who wanted to be seen—or just to gawk—at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor, during the decades when restaurants replaced clubs and theater as, well, theater in the most visible, vibrant city in the world.

« Ce témoignage rare fait la chronique saisissante d'une invasion aussi mal préparée que menée. » — Le JDD. « Mon Dieu, si je survis, je ferai tout pour changer ça. » C'est sous le feu nourri de l'artillerie ukrainienne que Pavel Filatiev s'est fait cette promesse. Membre du 56e régiment d'assaut aéroporté russe — il participe dès le 24 février 2022 à la guerre déclenchée par le Kremlin. Blessé à l'œil — il est évacué et demande à démissionner pour raisons de santé. Démission refusée. Il décide alors de fuir la Russie.

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's first families. J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home.

"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated. The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ hit the New York Times bestseller list the week of the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Consummate political insider Roger Stone makes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK.

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running.

In this New York Times–bestselling true crime memoir, a man's search for his biological father leads to a notorious American serial killer. When Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father at the age of thirty-nine, he never imagined his quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt.

Instant New York Times bestseller. "Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."—Katie Couric. "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book."—Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global. "Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book."—Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author). On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks.