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Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C.

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.

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

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.

Presents the definitive story of an American hero.

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.

Actress, producer, and acclaimed writer Annabelle Gurwitch--once fired from a play by Woody Allen--can find humor in any situation.

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.

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 ind

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.