Mel Calman What Else Do You Do? Some Sketches from a Cartoonist's Life January 1, 1986 by Methuen

Hilary Rodham Clinton “In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without...

Haruki Murakami   In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from...

Henry Kisor The author, who has been deaf since the age of three, recounts how deafness has affected his childhood, education, work as a newspaper editor, marriage, and family life...

Peter GodwinAfter his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On...

Paul Kalanithi   At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he...

Ken Krimstein An NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read"An Alma most anticipated book of NovemberFrom the prize-winning author...

Ronit Plank Abandoned By Her MotherRonit was six years old when her mother left her and her four year old sister for India to follow a cult guru. Bhagwan Shree...

Jack SaccoThe True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liveration of DachauIn this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale...

Jeanette WintersonIn 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted...

Ibn WarraqThose who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by skeptical Muslims and...

Mindy KalingIn Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in...