Margaret AtwoodWhat is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career,...

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of...

Kent Nerburn In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of...

Alice Shalvi Shalvi has been a pioneer in advancing the status of women in Israel and in religious girls' education. She has been an active participant in peace dialogues and...

Paula Wagner At eighteen, Paula is already a seasoned traveler, having begun life in England, crisscrossed the US as a young child, and survived a year in a London boarding...

John Simpson The third bestselling volume of memoirs from John Simpson. January 1, 2003 by London : Pan Books

Elie WieselBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and...

Mark OwenThe #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed...

Cea Sunrise PersonNorth of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Counterculture Family, and How I Survived BothIn the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s...

Not A Nice Man To The Best Of Khushwant Singh by Singh, Khushwant (india) Khushwant Singh January 1, 1993 by Penguin Books India

Lena Dunham “If I can take what I’ve learned in this life and make one treacherous relationship or degrading job easier for you, perhaps even prevent you from becoming temporarily...

Bill Bryson"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on British...