Biography & Memoir
Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
Hardback
A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss and the power of redemption in the poetic letter to her long-gone parents
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
Hardback
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Hardback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
Brutalities: A Love Story
Paperback
A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire and a body pushed to the brink
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
Paperback
One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022
In this erudite and piercing biography, best-selling author Reza Aslan proves that one person’s actions can have revolutionary consequences that reverberate the world over