Maya AngelouMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American...

Abbi Jacobson From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss,...

Annie Ernaux An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency.I Remain in Darkness recounts Ernaux’s attempts first to help her...

Mourid Barghouti Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.Barred from his homeland after...

Victor Klemperer The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. I Will Bear Witness is a work of...

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Sloane CrosleyFrom the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays...

Douglas Edwards An exciting story [that] shines light on the inner workings of the fledgling Google and on the personalities of its founders.â€â€” The Daily BeastIn its infancy, Google embraced...

Nadja Spiegelman A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.Well past the age when most children stop believing...

Lee Iacocca He's an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had...

Dr Jerri NielsenDuring the winter of 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with...

Dr Jerri Nielsen Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the...