At six, Lily Casey Smith broke wild horses; later, she piloted planes and managed a large Arizona ranch. Her life showed grit, resourcefulness, and a spirit that met every frontier challenge and personal tragedy.
Barack Obama shares his vision for a united America, blending personal reflections with calls for a politics rooted in shared optimism and a pursuit of the American Dream.
This book offers an alphabetically-ordered visual collection of 500 important artists, putting medieval masters next to modern artists, breaking traditional art classifications, and providing an open journey through centuries of human creativity.
Through the stark, unforgettable allegory of mice and cats, 'The Complete Maus' unflinchingly chronicles one family's harrowing survival of the Holocaust, exposing the deep, generational scars etched by unspeakable history.
Walter Isaacson's biography illuminates how Albert Einstein's rebellious spirit fueled his groundbreaking scientific discoveries and shaped his extraordinary life.
Blinded, deafened, and muted as a toddler, Helen Keller's autobiography chronicles her journey of discovering language and the world through Anne Sullivan's guidance, culminating in her graduation from Radcliffe and a life dedicated to advocacy.
From an illegitimate orphan to a leading architect of American finance and government, Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life was a relentless fight against obscurity and opposition, forging the very foundations of a nation.
In the 1920s, a series of murders targeting the oil-rich Osage Nation leads a new FBI to send an undercover team into a web of greed and conspiracy to find those behind a terrifying period of violence.
This is the prosecutor's account of the Charles Manson murders, exposing Manson's psychological control over his followers and the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Explore the private reflections of a Roman emperor on the universe, leadership, and his own soul, offering lasting wisdom for self-mastery and inner strength.
This is the true story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who descended into schizophrenia but re-emerged decades later to claim the Nobel Prize for his work in game theory.
In this graphic memoir's haunting conclusion, a son confronts his aging, Holocaust-survivor father's past in Auschwitz and their difficult present in the Catskills, grappling with inherited trauma through the unforgettable metaphor of mice and cats.
Through black-and-white graphic panels, Marjane Satrapi tells about her childhood in revolutionary Iran, her adolescence in Vienna, and her return, showing a nation's trouble through one girl's coming-of-age.
A harrowing account of the 1991 "perfect storm" that claimed the fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its six-man crew, showing nature's raw, untamed power against human effort.
Hans Rosling shows how ten common human instincts distort our view of global progress, urging us to use data for a clearer, less anxious understanding of the world.
William L. Shirer chronicles the rapid rise and catastrophic fall of Hitler's Third Reich, using an unprecedented collection of Nazi documents to detail its twelve-year reign.
Challenging baseball's traditions, Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane uses data and undervalued players to build a winning team on a small budget.
