Not only was Alex Singer a great human being -- and though young, he was great -- he was also a gifted writer and artist. These letters, diary entries and...

Peter Hook Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in the post-punk era, creating a new sound—dark, hypnotic, and intense—that would influence U2,...

Sadia Shepard A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of homeFascinating and intimate, The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an...

Richard P Feynman A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics,...

Dan Wittorio Serge This memoir brings to life Dan Vittorio Segre's childhood as a Jew raised in fascist, pre-World War II Italy. February 19, 1987 by Peter Halban Publishers Ltd...

Zipora Klein Jakob The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth....

Peter Wright From the earliest days of electronic surveillance to the height of the Cold War, Wright was at the center of the action in Mi5, Britain's counterespionage service. July...

Loung Ung In this lyrical sequel to the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee, and her sister Chou's...

Richard P Feynman Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" ( New York Review of Books...

Douglas Rogers For many years, Lyn and Ros Rogers were the owners of Drifters, a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains. But when President Robert Mugabe...

Carla Van Raay At the age of 18, Carla van Raay entered a convent to devote her life to God. By 35 she was earning her living as a prostitute....

William H McRaven The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed is back with a wise and witty memoir of life lessons from his 37-year career as a Navy SEAL and...