Hardcover Nonfiction

by Bill Cosby · Dolphin/Doubleday

Looks at the shifting ways in which the world is viewed at different stages of life--from childhood to middle age

by Erma Bombeck · McGraw-Hill

by Leo Buscaglia · Slack

This holiday classic contains personal stories based on Christmas memories. Five of the stories appeared originally in Woman's Day magazine, which initiated a tradition of printing an annual Buscaglia Christmas story during most of the 1980s.

by Marlo Thomas with Christopher Cerf and Letty Cottin Pogrebin · Bantam

Songs and stories about different types of families and family relationships.

by Cleveland Amory · Little, Brown

by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz · Random House

President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker. “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and challenges conventional thinking. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated time-tested guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest accomplishments; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur—the ultimate read for anyone interested in the man behind the spotlight. Praise for Trump: The Art of the Deal “Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again.”—The New York Times “Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet.”—Chicago Tribune “Fascinating . . . wholly absorbing . . . conveys Trump’s larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader’s attention is instantly and fully claimed.”—Boston Herald “A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled autobiography.”—New York Post

by Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass · Viking Press

by · Random House

A biography of the long-time Congressman from Massachusetts, Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, discussing not only his personal and political life, but also the important events in which he played a part.

by Art Buchwald · Putnam

by · Collins

by · Collins

The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations.

by Ravi Batra · Simon & Schuster

Batra predicts that we are moving toward the greatest world-wide depression in history--and 1987's Black Monday may have been just the beginning. Batra's advice is easily accessible to all. He advises when to get out of the stock market, cautions against real estate investments, and helps readers plan the right moves to ensure a secure future.

by Clifton Daniel · Chronicle Publications

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

by Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold · Madison Press/ Warner

This is the account of the discovery of the site of the Titanic and is a testament to state-of-the-art undersea technology.