by Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor · Gold Leaf Press
Relates the near-death experience of Betty Eadie, and recounts the events that followed
by Laurence Leamer · Villard
Based on five years of research, and with unprecedented cooperation from Kennedy family and associates, Laurence Leamer paints startling, in-depth portraits of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who struggled to build and maintain the Kennedy dynasty--from steerage on an immigrant vessel to the slums of Boston, from the court of St. James to the White House. Photographs.
by William J. Bennett · Simon & Schuster
Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.
by David Halberstam · Villard
The "compelling" New York Times bestseller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, capturing the 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals ( Newsweek). David Halberstam, an avid sports writer with an investigative reporter's tenacity, superbly details the end of the fifteen-year reign of the New York Yankees in October 1964. That October found the Yankees going head-to-head with the St. Louis Cardinals for the World Series pennant. Expertly weaving the narrative threads of both teams' seasons, Halberstam brings the major personalities on the field—from switch-hitter Mickey Mantle to pitcher Bob Gibson—to life. Using the teams' subcultures, Halberstam also analyzes the cultural shifts of the sixties. The result is a unique blend of sports writing and cultural history as engrossing as it is insightful. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.
by Paul Reiser · Bantam
In the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the highly-rated NBC comedy, "Mad About You", which Time Magazine called "The season's best new sitcom" in its 1992 debut. Every Thursday night more than twenty million viewers watch as Paul Reiser reveals the most intimate and hilarious scenes of a marriage. Now for the first time, Reiser brings his trademark wit to the page in a book that will delight his eagerly-awaiting audience, and anyone else who has ever fallen in love -- or tried not to. In Couplehood, a New York Times bestseller for more than 40 weeks, Reiser reflects on what it means to be half of a couple -- everything from the science of hand holding, to the technique of tag-team storytelling, to the politics of food and why it always seems to come down to chicken or fish.
by Hope Edelman · Addison-Wesley
Motherless Daughters examines the profound effects of the loss of a mother on a woman's identity, personality and life choices, both immediately and as her life goes on. Hope Edelman, who lost her mother at seventeen, searched for a book like this, and wh
by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster
From the New York Times bestselling author of All the President's Men comes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the Clinton administration.C., and New York City.
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas · Simon & Schuster
The story begins with what cats are: meat-eaters, first, & foremost. But within that stark equation abides an astonishing range of experience & expression. Cats -- even tigers -- are not solitary beings, but are homebodies who Ôown' property & favor extended clans when food supplies permit. They communicate with one another & with us. Most crucially, cats are, like us, individuals who -- instinct notwithstanding -- pass on, adapt, & invent codes of deportment as circumstances require. They sustain an intricate, elegant, ever-changing web of community with us, among themselves, & with the other creatures, great & small, who dwell in the world. B&W drawings. New York Times bestseller. Intriguing. Captivating.
by Nicholas Dawidoff · Pantheon
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne, he as reputed to speak a dozen languages (although it was also said he couldn't hit in any of them) and went on to become an OSS spy in Europe during World War II. As Nicholas Dawidoff follows Berg from his claustrophobic childhood through his glamorous (though equivocal) careers in sports and espionage and into the long, nomadic years during which he lived on the hospitality of such scattered acquaintances as Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein, he succeeds not only in establishing where Berg went, but who he was beneath his layers of carefully constructed cover. As engrossing as a novel by John le Carré, The Catcher Was a Spy is a triumphant work of historical and psychological detection.
by Erica Jong · HarperCollins
Seducing the Demon has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword. In Fear of Fifty, a New York Times bestseller when first published in 1994, Erica Jong looks to the second half of her life and "goes right to the jugular of the women who lived wildly and vicariously through Fear of Flying" (Publishers Weekly), delivering highly entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherhood. "What Jong calls a midlife memoir is a slice of autobiography that ranks in honesty, self-perception and wisdom with [works by] Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy," wrote the Sunday Times (U.K.). "Although Jong's memoir of a Jewish American princess is wittier than either."
by Thomas Moore · HarperCollins
In companion volumes, Care of the Soul, a philosophical guide, shows how to add spirituality and meaning to modern life, and Soul Mates, explains how relationships deepen our lives and fulfill the needs of the soul.
by Ruthie Bolton · Harcourt Brace
The author's story of growing up in an abusive home in the Hungry Neck section of Charleston, S.C., as related to Josephine Humphries.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
