Hardcover Nonfiction

by Vincent Bugliosi · Norton

A best-selling account by the author of Helter Skelter outlines the main reasons O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, from the jury's makeup to the incompetence of the prosecutors. Reprint.

by Scott Adams · Harper Business

by Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown · Delacorte Press

Autobiography from one of the most popular and eccentric basketballers currently playing in the US.

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

This author and these subjects (Clinton and Dole) need no comment. The book is based on Woodward's abundant sources. Covers personal and political matters. Note that BiP on CD-ROM carried the title The Race as late as August '96. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

by Stephen E. Ambrose · Simon & Schuster

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.

by Christopher A. Darden with Jess Walter · Regan Books/ HarperCollins

by John Berendt · Random House

by Roger Morris · Macrae/ Holt

by Jeff Foxworthy · Hyperion

From the best-selling comedian and author of You Might Be a Redneck If comes this new collection of humor touching on such universal subjects as marriage, growing up, parenthood, and politics. Tour.

by Daniel Goleman · Bantam

by Laura Schlessinger · HarperCollins

In her hard-hitting new book, Dr. Laura Schlessinger delivers a witty, wise, and workable moral philosophy - based on the principle of personal responsibility. How Could You Do That?! argues passionately against the self-indulgent subjective morality used in our society to excuse all sorts of bad behavior. In her lively, pull-no-punches style, Dr. Laura takes on the moral dilemmas of our time: from the mindless pursuit of pleasure and immediate gratification to taking the easy way out when those actions produce ugly or uncomfortable life-altering consequences. She demonstrates in no uncertain terms that personal values are never someone else's responsibility, but our own, and why choosing not to honor them actually compounds unhappiness. Finally, she explains that by disciplining self-indulgence and rising above temptation we can discover the infinite pleasures, the true happiness, of the moral high ground.

by James B. Stewart · Simon & Schuster

Drawing on scores of interviews with highly placed sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter--author of Den of Thieves and The Prosecutors--cuts through the rumors and innuendos surrounding the First Family to get to the facts about the Whitewater land deal, Vince Foster's suicide, and other alleged scandals plaguing the Clinton White House.

by Kathleen Norris · Riverhead

Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world -- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community -- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.

by Betty J. Eadie · Pocket

by Christopher Andersen · Morrow

Until now. With stunning information from important sources, some of whom were sworn to secrecy until Jackie's death in May 1994, and previously sealed archival material, international best-selling author Christopher Andersen examines their unique partnership and the courage, grace, and humor that defined it.

by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters · Simon & Schuster

Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his soulless soul mate, Peter Guber -- and all the sex, drugs, and fistfights along the way. It is the story of the ultimate Hollywood con job and the standard by which every subsequent business blunder has been measured. Hit and Run delivers rock-solid business reporting liberally laced with inside gossip and outrageous scandal -- plus a new afterword bringing us up to date on the latest fallout from the Guber-Peters legacy.