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Benazir Bhutto is the daughter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq in 1979. At his death, she inherited the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, the largest and most powerful mass-based group in the country. In 1981, she was herself imprisoned, spending three months in solitary confinement. After her release, she came to England to spend... (more)

The Girl in the Red Coat

by Roma Ligocka

As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and instantly knew that “the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the past, as Roma Ligocka... (more)

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s.... (more)

Princess Margaret

by Theo Aronson

This is a biography of Princess Margaret. Her life has been a balancing act; she has spent the greater part of her life torn between meeting the exacting standards of the monarchy and flouting its long-established conventions. She has spent her life surrounded by wealth and all its trappings, but, it appears, despite it all, she has led an unhappy life. She has been described as tragic, a royal maverick, a woman... (more)

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride, Andre Braugher, Lainie Kazan

A young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Anne Frank Remembered

by Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold

She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope. It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their... (more)

Love and War

by James Hewitt

Almost two months following the second anniversary of her death, Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt's explosive memoirs will be simultaneously released in Britain and the United States on Tuesday, October 26. This is the sensational biography that promises to reveal Diana's intimate thoughts about her past relationships and quotes from the contents of the love letters Diana sent to Hewitt while her... (more)

Mozart

by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Text: English, German (translation)

Henry Fuseli.

by Henry Fuseli

Painter, poet, critic, and teacher, Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) is one of the most idiosyncratic and original figures in the history of British art. His life and work have always fueled speculation, gossip, and fantasy--from the rumors of his opium addiction and predilection for eating raw pork to the wildly differing modern assessments of his art. Art historians view him variously as a prime exponent of... (more)

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

by Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that killed nearly two hundred of her countrymen. But she continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than ever, since she knew that time was running out—for the future of her nation, and for her life. In... (more)

Baba, Corneliu

by Pavel Susara

Back in Business

by Michael Barrymore

A showbiz autobiography. The son of a labourer who abandoned the family when he was eleven, Barrymore flogged toys and toiletries in Deptford market. He was a Redcoat, then a pub and variety circuit performer. 12 years ago he shared third billing with a musical puppet act, and lived with his wife in a council flat in Harlow.

Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

by A. N. Wilson

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, there were many who proclaimed that a new Elizabethan Age had begun. Few could have any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that were going to take place, in Britain and around the world. The collapse of British power in the world and the near-evaporation of its wealth were established facts, but few people had even begun to understand them. In the third book... (more)

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out [DONT PEE ON MY LEG & TELL]

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out [DONT PEE ON MY LEG & TELL]

Madame De Pompadour

by Nancy Mitford

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better.Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography... (more)

Night Trilogy: Book 1

Night

by Elie Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Weisel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring ... (more)

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Daughter of the East

by Benazir Bhutto

The Girl in the Red Coat

by Roma Ligocka

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Princess Margaret

by Theo Aronson

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride, Andre Braugher, Lainie Kazan

Anne Frank Remembered

by Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold

Love and War

by James Hewitt

Mozart

by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Henry Fuseli.

by Henry Fuseli

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

by Benazir Bhutto

Baba, Corneliu

by Pavel Susara

Back in Business

by Michael Barrymore

Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

by A. N. Wilson

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out [DONT PEE ON MY LEG & TELL]

Madame De Pompadour

by Nancy Mitford

Night

by Elie Wiesel

by Barrie Wilson