Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first...

Jane Juska'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope...

Janny Scott A major publishing an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama--his mother.Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little...

Jaycee DugardOn 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and...

Amoz Oz   Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed...

Abram Tertz Andrei Sinyavsky, who writes under the pseudonym of Abram Tertz, has been called by Saul Bellow "one of the most intelligent, most original, and most brilliant of contemporary...

Bill BrysonA Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail(Bryson and Katz #2)Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates ‘My husband died, my life collapsed.’On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the...

Virginia Woolf An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, "A Writer's Diary" was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period...

VS NaipaulIn 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.

Frances Mayes The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany returns to immerse herself - and her readers - in the sights, aromas and...