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...

Donald RumsfeldThe man once named one of America’s ten “toughest” CEOs by Fortune magazine offers current and future leaders practical advice on how to make their companies and organizations more...

Laurie ColwinMore Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes...

Laurie ColwinShare the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, good-humored...

XinranWhen Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long...

Pico IyerThe author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From...

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...

Brandon BaysThis is a book about Freedom All of us sense that deep inside lies huge potential. We long to experience it, yet something holds us back. We long to...

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...

Frank EphraimWith the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese...

The true story of an idealistic young American Jew committed to promoting peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.Few American college students who study abroad receive constant accusations of being...

Mindy Kaling Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and,...