Biography & Memoir

Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Hardback
When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives.

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Paperback
In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, “likely to be definitive for many years to come” (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian...


My Foreign Cities: A Memoir
Paperback
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal“Uplifting... it’s about savoring the present, not allowing sadness to dominate and surrendering yourself to love, for better or worse.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Hardback
The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career.


