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Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

Glennon Doyle

Melton writes about spirituality, faith, creativity, and compassion without once surrendering her hilarious and...

Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Slavomir Rawicz

The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget..."-- Stephen Ambrose "A...

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Vicki Croke

“I have to confess—my love of elephants made me apprehensive to review a book about their role in World War II. But...

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the...

Gift from the Sea

A.M. Lindbergh

Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form ... It tells of light and life and love and the...

Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

A.M. Lindbergh

I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous...

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

The Washington Post Book World The most readable full-length Franklin biography available. The New Yorker Energetic,...

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a Washington Post and New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2016 "A thrilling...

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Andrea Wulf reclaims Humboldt from the obscurity that has enveloped him. . . . [She] is as...

Flight to Heaven, A Pilot's True Story: A Plane Crash... A Lone Survivor... A Journey to Heaven - and Back (LARGE PRINT)

Capt. Dale Black

I purchased this book as a gift for my dad, a retired airline captain, but soon discovered I couldn't put it down. Both...

The Little Big Things: The Inspirational Memoir of the Year

Henry Fraser

This young man has an incredible story to tell that impressed me, moved me and has stayed with me. Everyone should read...

Lucky Man: A Memoir

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox began his career as the lovable Alex P. Keaton, the star of the popular sitcom Family Ties. Since then,...

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Liz Murray

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. From runaway to Harvard student, Murray tells an engaging, powerfully...

The Greatest Generation

Tom Brokaw

A moving scrapbook...a tribute to the members of the World War II generation to whom we Americans and the world owe so...

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Autobiography by Richard Wright, published in 1945 and considered to be one of his finest works. The book is sometimes...

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way

Jesse Thistle

An illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and freedom...I found myselfing gasping out loud...

A Rumor of War

Philip Caputo

MY GIRLS

Todd Fisher

Review “A frequently hilarious and too often heartbreaking story of life with the women he called “my girls”.…...

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

John E. Douglas

Mark Olshaker is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a New York Times bestselling nonfiction author. His seven books...

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Brené Brown

A book unlike any other I've ever read. . . a book I'd have no problem recommending to everyone I know. My mother, my...

Beating the Street

Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 when it was one of the most successful mutual-funds of...

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Michael Lewis

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As he did so memorably for baseball in Moneyball , Lewis takes a statistical...

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman

Feynman’s voice echoes raw and direct through these pages." ― James Gleick, New York Times Book Review "One final,...

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941

William L. Shirer

The most complete news report yet to come out of war-time Germany.'' -- Time