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From the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager--drawing on a wealth of the Colonel's never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant,...

"A beautiful reflection on justice, the environment, the self, and much more."--George Saunders The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was...

An Instant Sunday Times (London) Bestseller A New York Times Best Nonfiction Book of Summer 2025 A Vogue Best Book of 2025 So Far A Service95 Must-Read Book of 2025 A hilarious, hot, and steamy account of...

A profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Brontë family as they've never been seen before. Charlotte Brontë had a life as seemingly dramatic as her heroine Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past,...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Bruce Springsteen's ground-breaking album, Born to Run--one of the most iconic records in rock history--Tonight in Jungleland combines lush music writing with unprecedented...

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes the jaw-dropping...

"An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation." -Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity "A valuable addition to the canon of literature on the country . ....

These are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you-from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con. "Johnathan Walton has written a master class on how to spot scammers, con artists, grifters, and...

A lively and charming account of one human's relationship with an orphaned beaver kit. On May 10, 2020, an orphaned beaver kit was found in St. Albans, Vermont and handed over to John Aberth, a licensed volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. Over the next two years, John raised the...

Instant New York Times Bestseller From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking "cure for chronic people-pleasing" (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct called fawning and offers...