By Doris Lessing - $27.95 - add to cart

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I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done with...

By Alissa R. Torres - $25.00 - add to cart

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On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The next morning, he said goodbye to his 7½-months-pregnant wife, Alissa...

By Jacques Poitras - $19.95 - add to cart

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Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2...

By Phil Jenkins - $21.00 - add to cart

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George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a c...

By Bill O'reilly - $30.00 - add to cart

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The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least ...

By Steve Martin - $17.50 - add to cart

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In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the st...

By Roger Lowenstein - $22.00 - add to cart

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Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business W...

By Spain Rodriguez - $21.00 - add to cart

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Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and exte...

By Mary Gordon - $30.00 - add to cart

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In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughte...

By Robert Kurson - $17.00 - add to cart

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Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entre...

By William R. Drennan - $17.95 - add to cart

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The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by...

By Petr Ginz - $17.50 - add to cart

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Petr Ginz was a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague. Six exercise books full of his writings and drawings were found in a house in Prague in 2003. Lappin, who translated his diaries from Czech,...

By Amanda Foreman - $17.95 - add to cart

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Film tie-in edition of Foreman's hugely popular portrait of Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire. With its sex, intrigue, adultery, high politics and huge wealth in late 18th the big screen. The film s...

By Anne Roiphe - $26.95 - add to cart

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Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roip...

By Andrew Cohen - $26.00 - add to cart

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In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963-1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and...