Mary Catherine Bateson In With a Daughter's Eye, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead...

Tirzah Firestone"Candid, intense, and compulsively readable, this is spiritual biography at its very best."--Letty Cottin PogrebinAt age seventeen, Tirzah Firestone left the oppressive home of her Orthodox Jewish parents and...

Asne Seierstad From the award-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramati c events leading up...

Cheri Tannenbaum How would you like to be unable to speak intelligibly? How would you enjoy having an awkward gait that makes you prone to falling and causes people to...

Eric LaxFew celebrities are as instantly recognizable as Woody Allen. Few are as notoriously shy. And perhaps none are as elusive: Is Woody Allen a comedian who wants to be...

Philip Glass Words Without Music is the long-awaited memoir by composer Philip Glass, often described by The New York Times as one of the most prolific and influential composers of...

Shonda Rhimes***AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood’s most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive...

Amy Poehler   In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship...

Viktor E FranklFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning.Eleven months after he was liberated from the...

Lucy EdgeLucy Edge tells the story of a quest for life's deeper meaning through the yoga schools, ashrams and villages of India.After a decade spent working and drinking too much...

Chris Heath For the last twenty years, ever since a 16-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy band and was told what his new name should be, he...

Dave Eggers The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a...