Barack Obama#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides...

Eva Hoffman"As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they,...

Aharon Appelfeld   When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been...

James FreyWhen James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre so powerfully described in 'A Million Little Pieces' they are both recovering drug addicts. Despite their highly unreliable track...

Colin Powell"A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK."--The New York Times Book ReviewColin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born...

Joe Queenan   Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America   The author of "The Unkindest Cut", whose popular column appears weekly in "TV Guide", sets...

Gloria VanderbiltGloria Vanderbilt has written a memoir like no other -- as engaging and unlikely as if a storybook figure were suddenly to speak, revealing at long last events of...

Adeline Yen MahBorn in 1937 in a port city north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a...

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Peter RatcliffeA fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden death...

Brett ButlerA best-selling autobiography by the stand-up comedienne and star of the sitcom Grace Under Fire recounts her coming-of-age in the South, her abusive first marriage, and her rise to...

Author: Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything in The World According to Clarkson.Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world than most. He has,...