This “bold . . . extraordinary . . . blockbuster . . .” (Newsweek) begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an […]
“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood,” writes Frank McCourt in Angelas Ashes. “Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after […]
In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G.H. Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematicians opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letters were the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever […]
Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed […]
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother – a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an it. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and unwashed, and […]
In his eagerly-anticipated memoir, Americas premier storyteller shares the story of his own life in a frank and revealing book that rivals any of his fictional tales. Sidney Sheldon is truly an entertainment legend: Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of televisions greatest hits, he has lived a […]
Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of […]
The untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters in the history of the House of Windsor. Paul Burrell fought to clear his own name. Now he reveals new truths about Princess Diana ?? and presents for the first time as faithful an account of her thoughts as we can ever hope to read. […]
Sex workers are free in four respects: we don??t have to cook for a husband; we don??t have to wash his dirty clothes; we don??t have to ask for his permission to raise our kids as we deem fit; we don??t have to run after a husband claiming rights to his property.?? Fiery, outspoken and […]
This is an extra ordinary story of Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Police, East Region, Mumbai who died fighting terrorist in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai. The inspiring story of one of the most courageous and promising Indian Police services (IPS) officers comes straight from the heart of his wife, Vinita. It traces the life […]
From the Impresario of NBC??s hit show The Apprentice TRUMP ON TRUMP: ??I like thinking big. I always have. To me it??s very simple: if you??re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.? And here??s how he does it: the art of the deal. Beginning with a week in Trump??s high-stakes […]
oy Adamsons story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the […]
The bestselling success book of all time is updated and revised with contemporary ideas and examples. Think and Grow Rich has been called the “Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature.” It was the first book to boldly ask, “What makes a winner?” The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted […]
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India??and for love??she screamed, ??Never!? and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy […]