Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

by Steve Harvey with Denene Millner
New York Times–bestselling author Steve Harvey zeroes in on what motivates men and provides tips on how women can use that knowledge to get more of what they need out of their relationships.
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester
From the New York Times–bestselling author comes this epic look at the Atlantic Ocean: its history, geography, importance, and wealth of stories.

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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor: Hiroshima: 9/11

by John W. Dower
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
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Decision Points

by George W. Bush

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

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How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell

Bakewell has written a thoroughly engaging look at the life and work of Michel de Montaigne, whose incessantly questioning approach to life is both remarkably modern and usefully instructive, even though he composed his famous essays more than 400 years ago.

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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books

by William Kuhn

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals both the serious and the mischieveous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.

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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

edited by Joan Reardon

Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome. Covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

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Colonel Roosevelt

by Edmund Morris

From Edmund Morris, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, comes Colonel Roosevelt, the concluding volume of the definitive Theodore Roosevelt trilogy. Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, it recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history.

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The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume

by Tilar Mazzeo

The true brilliance of The Secret of Chanel No. 5 is Tilar Mazzeo's ability to take a subject one would never have thought possible to think very deeply about and then cover it so captivatingly. Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Writing with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit, Hillenbrand tells the unforgettable story of Louis Zamperini's journey into extremity.

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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

by Michael Korda

Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile, including his sun-burnished blond looks and flowing white robes, made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as "Lawrence of Arabia."

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