Biography & Memoir
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
Paperback
The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
Paperback
"A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting
Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."
The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
Paperback
"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
Paperback
"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo." —Newsweek
Sketches from a Life
Paperback
Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic record of his experiences with twentieth-century history.