NONFICTION
Released: May 20, 2013
"Gripping, emotional depictions of the conflicts that rage in the interior and exterior worlds of a spy--and of a journalist."
A former
Newsweek foreign correspondent reviews his often perplexing experiences as the son of a CIA operative.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 20, 2013
"The story of Brockes' quest to understand her mother's past is powerful on its own, but the backdrop against which most of the narrative unfolds--a country with its own history of rapacious violence--makes the book even more poignant and unforgettable."
The riveting memoir about how a prizewinning British journalist reclaimed her mother's traumatic past.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A charmingly conversational tale of devotion--to each other and to the science and art of medicine."
Two brothers, both doctors, reflect on a remarkable journey from their childhood in newly independent India to their success and renown in Obama's America.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Yet another point of view on the long saga of the Stones, this memoir reads like it has an agenda to tick off."
Long-suffering rock-'n'-roll wife spills the dirt on life inside the world's longest-running musical circus.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Well-balanced, though not likely to sway either detractors or admirers one way or another. We look forward to the planned sequel, covering the years of Thatcher's political decline."
The authorized, remarkably evenhanded biography of the grimly divisive, late Iron Lady of Britain.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2013
"A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis."
Memoirist, essayist and novelist Gallagher (
The Sacred Meal, 2009, etc.) explores the series of events set into motion by the startling diagnosis that she suffered from a condition causing blindness.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"A welcome new edition of a classic."
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Carlson has taken full advantage of abundant material to deliver a vivid chronicle of two working Civil War reporters and their spectacular odyssey."
A rollicking story of imprisonment and escape during the Civil War seems a stretch, but journalist Carlson accomplished a similar feat with a Soviet premier in
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009), and this is another entertaining, occasionally gruesome account.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Useful, perceptive advice on life found through the practice of karate."
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Essential for fans but fascinating for those new to Brunetti's work as well."
NONFICTION
Released: May 30, 2013
"People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so it's been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention."
Mexico-born U.S. journalist Corchado frames a portrait of a torn nation within an account of escaping his own murder.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"An earnest but fairly unskilled rendering of a humanitarian worker's trials and tribulations in Afghanistan."
An activist's candid account of the hardships she endured working as a human rights officer for the United Nations.
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