Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton
Based on a true story, A House Divided: Suspicions of Mother-Daughter Incest tells the emotionally harrowing tale of a mother’s fight to retain custody of her daughter amid horrifying accusations of mother-daughter incest.More
Diane Ackerman
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More
Faith Adiele
A wry account of the road from Harvard scholarship student to ordination as northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun.More
Alfred Adler, Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher, Rowena R. Ansbacher
“This compilation establishes Adler beyond doubt as one of the wisest psychologists of this century.” —Gordon W. AllportMore
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the
greatest—and most neglected—minds in history.More
Richard Aldous
The first major biography of
preeminent historian and intellectual
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a defining
figure in Kennedy’s White House.More
Billy Altman
The definitive biography of Robert Benchley: humorist, actor, and leading man of the Algonquin Round Table.More
Judith Icke Anderson
How could a politically unambitious man like William Howard Taft, who yearned for only one post, a seat on the Supreme Court, be chosen for ever higher national offices and ultimately win the presidency, a triumph he did not want?More
Heidi Ardizzone
The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.More
Denis Arnold, Nigel Fortune, Claude V. Palisca
Monteverdi is still too often thought of as a revolutionary who single-handed overthrew the principles governing the composition of music for generations past. The Monteverdi Companion offers chapters on aspects of Monteverdi’s work that relate his achievement to the music and ideas of his elders and contemporaries, illustrating the ways he learned from them and how he incorporated new procedures and principles into his music.More
Colin Asher
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters.More
Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.
"Amazing not only as literature but as biography." —Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore
Jean Harvey Baker
"A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." —New York TimesMore
Jean Harvey Baker
"[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page reviewMore
Michael Balfour
“[An] admirably comprehensive and beautifully written study of William II’s reign.” —Gordon A . CraigMore