Biography & Memoir
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
Hardback
The story of a young, Black Communist Party organiser wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Paperback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Paperback
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Hardback
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country