Hardcover Nonfiction

by Katharine Hepburn · Knopf

by Robert Fulghum · Villard

by James B. Stewart · Simon & Schuster

by Sam Smith · Simon & Schuster

Tells how the Chicago Bulls basketball team came together to win the 1991 NBA championship.

by Ralph Emery with Tom Carter · Macmillan

by Oliver L. North with William Novak · Zondervan/HarperCollins

When Rachel Flores' tumultuous relationship with Major Liam McCabe ended abruptly, she refocuses her energy onto her career. She plans to forget Liam and live a peaceful life supplying therapy dogs for recovering military vets-until a patient reveals a traitorous plot within the epicenter of military intelligence. Rachel finds herself ensnared within a web of danger, and only one man can help her ...

by Bill Cosby · Putnam

A salute to childhood by the American entertainer, Bill Cosby. It blends anecdotes from his own childhood with observations on children today.

by Erma Bombeck · HarperCollins

The national #1 bestseller from "the wizard of the ordinary moment . . . always fun to read" (The New York Times Book Review). Bombeck is at her hilarious best in this tour de force of laughs, as she offers advice to world weary travelers. "Classic Bombeck".--Kirkus Reviews.

by James A. Michener · Random House

Account of the life and death of the Japanese art of print-making, the men who made it, and the lusty age in which they flourished.

by Susan Faludi · Crown

by William Least Heat-Moon · Davison/Houghton Mifflin

This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is "a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains" ( Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a "modern-day Walden" by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. "A sense of the American grain that will give [ PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country." —Paul Theroux, The New York Times

by P. J. O'Rourke · Entrekin/Atlantic Monthly

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

by Susan Jeffers · Dial Press

"All races -- the red, black, yellow, and white -- were once believers in the beauty of the world. 'Brother Eagle, Sister Sky' brings to mind the possibility of a world that once was paradise". Jewell Praying Wolf James, Lineal nephew of Chief Seattle.

by Art Spiegelman · Pantheon

An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.