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Two weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea's women's hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador, or general had been able to resolve. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before. In this book, Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women.

In this memoir, Queer Eye grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness shares never-before-told secrets and reveals sides of himself that the public has never seen.

Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Susan Sontag left a legacy of writing that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. With hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo, this is the first book based on the writer's restricted archives and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag.

Steven Elliott presents an explosive look at the chaos of war; the battle for life in its aftermath; a personal encounter with faith, love, tragedy, and renewal; and a confrontation of life's biggest questions.

With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, LeBron has also become a global brand and businessman who has altered the way professional athletes think about their value, maximize their leverage, and use their voice. Brian Windhorst tells the story of James' journey down the path to becoming a billionaire sports icon--his successes, failures, and the lessons both have taught him along the way.

Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Mark Griffin shows how beneath Rock Hudson's suave movie star persona, was a deeply insecure man continually threatened with public exposure of his closeted homosexuality and contraction of AIDS by both scandal sheets and his own partners.

A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter, RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years.

David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. This book chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies.

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough.

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife, but as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.