Cheever describes her children as smart, kind, and connected -- despite a divorce, issues at school, eating disorders, and alcoholism. As Good as I Could Be is the story, told in passionate... more »

Anne Roiphe grew up in in a wealthy Jewish family in New York City inthe 1940s. The family had money, status, culture -- everything buthappiness. A constant tension played out between a disappoint... more »

For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskinds novel Perfume, but his story is in fact s... more »

Abducted at gunpoint and fearing for his life, Jan Reid took a swing at the gunman and missed. A muzzle flashed, and the bullet that struck his spine would send his life careening out of control--un... more »

Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can b... more »

Every schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery.  But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, beca... more »

"The really important things in life are your family and friends. And what will people say about you at your funeral--that you won an Emmy once, or that you were a good person, kind and generous? We... more »

In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is ... more »

"This is a book that will grab you and hold you in its grip, and break your heart even as it inspires you. Frances Kuffel's memoir is so real, so alive with honesty and clarity, you will never forge... more »

This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other peoples autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into... more »

Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker who has galvanized audiences around the world and written more than a dozen perennially popular books, brings that same unbounded energy and clarity of vision to... more »

On sale 1/20/04! In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and f... more »

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing... more »

Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation. In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and o... more »

To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru--the country's "greatest philosopher of sport." But t... more »

"I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.... There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of... more »

One of the most striking figures in international style offers a unique and unforgettable memoir of the two women who shaped his dreams, tastes, and character. "My grandmother and Mrs. Vreeland had ... more »

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space, we can conquer inner space, ... more »

This true story begins with five sisters from rural Maine. Their mother dies in childbirth in the depths of the Depression, and social workers take the children from their alcoholic father and send ... more »

In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat mad... more »

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the co... more »

he music industrys most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop musics heyday. During the 1970s and '80s the music business ... more »

Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unk... more »

"A luminous, poignant true story, Alison Smith's stunning first book, Name All the Animals, is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family clinging to the memory of a lost... more »