Haven Kimmel When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the...

Ya'acov (Jack) Handeli A Greek Jew from Salonica Remembers First published June 1, 1993

Otto Rosenberg A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaustOtto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his...

James ComeyIn his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government,...

Molly Wizenberg March 23, 2010 by Simon & Schuster

Shlomo Adler"If I can get out of here alive, I will never deny my Judaism, whatsoever."Over three years, Shlomo Adler lost his parents, his sister and many members of his...

Tony Blair In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only...

Author: Deborah Weisgall In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they...

Oliver SacksDr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in...

Ishmael BeahThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered...

John Simpson There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson...

Karl Ove KnausgardHaving left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard is struck by an overwhelming urge to get away, and he settles in Stockholm. Lonely and depressed, he strikes up...