NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A humorous, cerebral and daringly written memoir."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony."
Anne Frank, before and after the diary, with many new details and a fresh, welcome perspective.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Insightful social history with a light touch."
Koppel (
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal, 2008, etc.) explores the cohesiveness of a group of wives who formed an unofficial support group and their individual development during the early years of the Cold War.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A golf-is-life allegory that fails to make the cut."
Novelist and memoirist Snyder (
The Winter Travelers: A Christmas Fable, 2011, etc.)
returns with the overwrought story of his training to be a caddie so he could help his son, who hopes for a PGA career.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An eye-opening, absorbing, complex story of scientific achievement in the face of overwhelming odds."
A hard-hitting attack on current drug policy by Hart (Psychology and Psychiatry/Columbia Univ.), a neuroscientist who grew up on the streets of one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Thought-provoking new views on transforming our relationships with currency."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A wild rock 'n' roll ride."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Compelling in its specificity and intriguing in its portrayal of leading financial institutions and their malfeasance."
Financial journalist Raghavan debuts with this account of the international web of insider trading at Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon hedge fund.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Clear, focused snapshots of a movement and its celebrated leader."
The author of
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (2009) returns with an examination of transformative events in American cultural history--and of that great transformer himself, Benjamin Franklin.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A quick, smoothly readable account of Lincoln the political striver, the embodiment of the Declaration's "central idea…that every man can make himself.""
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A moving account of how one woman's willpower saved her home and her family."
NONFICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"Worthwhile reading for those interested in the origins of today's sci-fi fan culture and the still understudied subject of marginal literary publishing."
