JOSEPH KANON’s Shanghai: A Novel chronicles one man’s escape to Shanghai during a time when European Jews were desperate to emigrate after the violence of Kristallnacht. Daniel arrives penniless in […]
I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing with immense grief in the […]
MAX BOOT brings America’s 40th president to three-dimensional life in Reagan: His Life and Legend. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews and thousands of newly available documents – and […]
In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. […]
SHALOM AUSLANDER was raised in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father, guilt-wielding mother, and a violent, overbearing God. […]
In I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, neuroscientist and composer DANIEL J. LEVITIN explores the deep connections between music and healing. He presents numerous studies on […]
For her podcast Family Secrets, author DANI SHAPIRO interviews actor, director, producer, and writer GRIFFIN DUNNE about his dazzling new book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir – an […]
EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK’s Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War is the story of the Combahee River raid, during which Tubman ventured into […]
FRANCINE PROSE’s political coming-of-age tale 1974: A Personal History is framed around her relationship with activist Tony Russo – indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the […]
From the forefront of AI research, JOY BUOLAMWINI’s Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines is the story of how she uncovered “the […]
For many, Jesus has become a precious relic, revered yet lacking the immediacy of authentic spiritual force. In The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love (The Marianne Williamson Series), MARIANNE […]
KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were separated upon liberation, led extraordinary […]