In his eighteen years in Paris, Chopin was at the center of a group ofartists defining the nineteenth century -- Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal,Delacroix, Liszt, Berlioz and, of course, George Sand, a reb... more »

For the first time since the brutal assault in 1989 -- a crime that stunned New Yorkers, the nation, and the world -- the Central Park Jogger reveals her identity and tells the story you haven't hea... more »

In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her... more »

"The very night that Sanford "Sandy" Weill, the chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, was being feted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as CEO of the Year, the television scre... more »

KILLER AND COP -- BOUND TOGETHER BY FATE They met in college twenty years ago.One became a decorated NYPD officer and a journalist.The other became New York's most notorious serial killer.Thi... more »

This book traces the lives of the famous Langhorne sisters of Virginia who were considered a phenomenon in America. It shows why they were constantly in the limelight, their combination of Southern-... more »

In 1993, a quirky California boy named Beck burst onto the scene with the irony warped anthem "Loser." He has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative, stylish, and vital recording ar... more »

Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat l... more »

Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh ... more »

The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I m... more »

As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, lau... more »

Jerry Lawler is hailed as one of sports-entertainment's most enduring and colorful characters. His life has been filled with hilarious, never-been-told stories...until now! His reign consists of thi... more »

In the 1950s, financier Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the taxcode to obtain eventual control of more than eighty companies. Hepursued wealth and power ruthlessly, barging in where few w... more »

Here is the historian's art practiced at its highest level. The sweeping narrative illuminates the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia -- Jackson, Longstreet, Ewell, and others -- who f... more »

The story of Bad Boy Entertainment is the story of the American Dream -- an up-close and personal account of America's biggest rap mogul and the people, the money, and the creative process that ma... more »

When war correspondent Ernie Pyle died in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him even as they mourned Franklin D. Roosevelt. Through him, Americans had learned both of wartime atroc... more »

Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, confounded his critics. Two years earlier, the conservative movement had been pronounced dead. Now political neophyte R... more »

Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. With the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women, everything changed. Walker built a bea... more »

Shakira's crossover success has been predicted for years by those in the know. She landed her first record deal when she was a mere thirteen years old, recorded her second album at fifteen, and star... more »

This lyrical memoir, telling of a spontaneous cross-country road trip following migrating birds, is one woman's reflections on midlife, her personal relationships, her kaleidoscopic past, and her ... more »

A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Ro... more »

On eight Tuesdays each year, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan convenes a small committee to set the short-term interest rate that can move through the American and world economies like an ele... more »

As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth... She had to g... more »

Even among the great painters, poets, and revolutionaries of her era, the pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a radical life. Her great feminist document, A Vindica... more »