The Academy Award-winning actress and best-selling author describes her remarkable experiences during the making of Wild Oats on the Canary Islands, describing the daily obstacles faced by the production's cast and crew and her astonishing memories of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.
An NBA sports star and cultural icon discusses his catastrophic spinal collapse in 2007, the excruciating pain he suffered and his slow recovery, as well as his childhood, sports career and the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.
Describes how the author, a writer for The New York Times and other publications, forged an unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, a motorcycle club president who invited the author to immerse himself in his world of fight clubs, heavy drinking and Oakland street beat-downs.
An extensive portrait of the contradictory ruler who helped elevate Prussia to a first-rate power in the 18th century explores such topics as his military accomplishments, his long relationship with Voltaire and his embrace of Enlightenment philosophies.
Places the improbable life of Great Famine orator and revolutionary hero Thomas Francis Meagher against a backdrop of Irish-American history, detailing his leadership during Irish uprisings, service with the Irish Brigade and achievements as the territorial governor of Montana.
The host of the Emmy Award-winning Top Chef presents a memoir about her immigrant childhood and complicated life in front of the camera, tracing her formative experiences in her grandmother's South India kitchen and her relationships with people who influenced her culinary skills and career. 150,000 first printing.
The best-selling author of Running with Scissors continues the story that began in Dry to examine the rise and fall of his relationships while living in New York and his beliefs about being in love, in lust and in a state of figuring things out.
The New York Times best-selling author of The Wilderness Warrior examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal, evaluating the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the dozens of State Park systems that were protected by his decisions.
Uncovers the presidential candidate's past and reveals his personal and political development, particularly his progressive tenure as a Vermont senator.