Peter RatcliffeA fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden death...

Adeline Yen MahBorn in 1937 in a port city north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a...

Pico IyerThe author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From...

Author: John Lanshester In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital , John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets -...

Jennifer WorthWhen 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies...

Natan Sharansky   Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten...

Erica Jong Addressing the conflicting roles and fluctuating expectations faced by today's women baby boomers, a humorous look into the second half of life applies the author's insight to such...

Pauline W Chen A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.When Pauline Chen began...

Rosie O'DonnellPart memoir, part mystery, a compelling tale that will break readers' hearts even as it heals them. Paperback, 224 pages Published April 1st 2003 by Grand Central Publishing (first...

Loung UngFirst They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia RemembersFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of...

Lauren Shockey From ribald kitchen humor to fiery-tempered workers to tasks ranging from the mundane (mincing cases of shallots) to the extraordinary (cooking seafood on the line), Shockey shows us...

Alice KaplanBrilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of...