Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Geisha: the mystique never dies. Available again, this classic bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. In her account of her experience as the Kyoto geisha Ichigiku, Liza Dalby--the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha--reveals.....
Humanity in Action Press. Trade Paperback.
Harper, September 2017. Hardcover. From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America's education system. Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"-- if that's a synonym for getting.....
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2010. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "extraordinarily stirring" (The Washington Post) account of one man's inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains "A tale of unspeakable barbarism and unshakeable.....
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, November 2022. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A "profound and beautiful" (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "I will stake.....
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Sounds True, January 2021. Hardcover. "Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening." --Kirkus Reviews Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you've ever embraced the phrase "be.....
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St. Martin's Paperbacks, August 2006. Mass Market Paperback. RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of.....
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Picador USA, March 2026. Trade Paperback. With a new afterword by the author and an interview with Chanel Miller. An Instant New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Natalie Portman's Book Club Pick for March. "Amanda's story--innovatively told by versions of herself at different.....
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Doubleday, August 1997. Hardcover. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through.....
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Random House, March 2011. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up.....
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2013. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Wilde in Love, a joyful chronicle of a year in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Paris. "What a beautiful and delightful tasting menu of a book: the kids, the.....
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Atria Books, April 2003. Hardcover. Comedienne Mo'Nique, the bold, classy sitcom star, Queen of Comedy, and two-time NAACP Image Award winner, is at it again. This time she proves once and for all that "Skinny Women Are Evil." Mo'Nique shares her tales of frustration in a world designed for the.....
The Macmillan Company. Hardcover. First Printing. First Printing.
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Little, Brown Spark, September 2023. Hardcover. Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the story of discovering her truth in this instant New York Times bestseller. "Beautiful." --Oprah Winfrey While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a......
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Penguin Books, August 2012. Trade Paperback. The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and.....
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Scribner Book Company, September 2023. Hardcover. *A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023* "Compelling... [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good." --The Washington Post A moving memoir from an award-winning novelist--a riveting account of her complicated.....
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Penguin Books, April 2001. Trade Paperback. A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, Strangers Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award In 1938, when Edith Westerfeld.....
Harper & Row, Publishers. Hardcover.
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Nan A. Talese, October 2002. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball--and life itself--by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball.....
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Back Bay Books, February 2011. Trade Paperback. In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the.....
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Grove Press, August 2019. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah.....
1927. Hardcover. First Edition. No jacket cover. Broken spine. First Edition. No jacket cover. Broken spine.
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Knopf, October 2006. Hardcover. Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940.....
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Atria Books, August 2005. Trade Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired.....
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Viking Adult, September 2006. Hardcover. From rock bottom to recovery?the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house.....
