Barbara KingsolverAuthor Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow...

Ezra Yakhin ELNAKAM is the "nom de guerre" given to Ezra Yakhin in the LEHI. He was born in Jaffa in 1928 but his early childhood was spent in Yemin...

Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi GermanyMarie Jalowicz SimonBerlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All...

Stephen King"Long live the King," hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing.Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb...

Roddy DoyleNovelist Roddy Doyle, with his legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, here shares the story of his parents' lives, largely in their own words. Born in 1923 and 1925,...

James McBrideTouches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.Who...

Annie DallardAnnie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's...

William Finnegan“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age...

Tanya BurrHi everyone and welcome to Love, Tanya! This book is really close to my heart, because it's inspired by my journey to becoming confident and feeling happy about who...

Nicholas Evansn a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers...

Alexandra FullerCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East...

David FoenkinosTwo artists, two obsessions. Charlotte Salomon—born in pre-World War II Berlin to a Jewish family traumatized by suicide—was obsessed with art, and with living. She attended school in Germany...