Biography & Memoir

The beloved Good Morning America anchor shares the incredible journey that's been her life so far and the lessons she learned along the way as she battled breast cancer and a rare blood disorder and dealt with the death of her mother. 300,000 first printing.

Over 10 years, Ron Capps served as a U.S. Army officer and a State Department Foreign Service officer in some of the world's deadliest places, witnessing war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Experiencing those horrors led to post-traumatic stress disorder and the disintegration of his State Department and Army careers, as well as his 25-year marriage

Documents the life of France's first popularly elected socialist president, covering such topics as the Observatory affair, his decision to join Petain's Vichy government, and his influence on French social and political dynamics.

The best-selling author of Zone One describes his uproarious participation in the World Series of Poker after only six weeks of training, recounting how he interacted with a gritty subculture of high-stakes players while endeavoring to maintain his parenting responsibilities.

A longtime music columnist presents an insider's assessment of major rock 'n' roll personalities while tracing her career and the genre's evolution over the past four decades.

The Massachusetts senator chronicles her childhood pursuit of an education and her two-decade career in Washington.

The first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades asa lawyer in South Africa.

Chronicles the author and her family's twelve-month no-sugar experiment and the positive results it yielded, shedding new light on oft-followed nutritional advice while offering tips on shopping for items with less and no added sugar.

The No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA draft and Phoenix Mercury star recalls the painful episodes in her life and describes how she came to celebrate what makes her unique.

Part memoir, part spiritual inquiry, an atheist and rationalist, after coming across the journal she kept during her adolescence, sets out to answer her younger self's uninhibited musings on questions of spirituality, science and morality.

Delving into his best-loved works, this glimpse into the life of the award-winning author, based on in-depth research and interviews, reveals a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page.

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, The Empathy Exams asks essential questions about our basic understanding of others.

George Prochnik documents the tragic story of intellectual, humanitarian and best-selling author Stefan Zweig, tracing his rapid downfall after the rise of the Nazis and the years of exile that culminated in his 1942 suicide.

In this re-release of her 1980 memoir, Grammy Award-winning performer Bette Midler reflects on her early career, her fear of flying and the wisdom she learned along the way.