How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors
Chris Coste
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach--until that...
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
“Discretion is not the better part of biography,” Lytton warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The...
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
Lewis Alsamari
At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein's army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or...
A New York Times bestseller, Finding Fish is the remarkable story of an African American boy abandoned in an abusive foster home in Cleveland who rises to liberation, manhood, and...
"Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am." --from The Good Good Pig
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955....
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery,...
