Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Included in this new edition, along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, are Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews of the book, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing ...

**Also an Academy Award–winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly—directed by Ron Howard** The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel ...

What Happened is the story of that campaign, now with a new epilogue showing how Hillary grappled with many of her worst fears coming true in the Trump Era, while finding new hope in a surge of civic activism, women running for office, and ...

This text recounts Charlemagne's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning, art, building, and in the skillful administration of the state.

Destined to touch every reader's heart, this riveting memoir parallels thousands of untold Hmong stories.

The Number One international bestseller, Eat, Pray Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.

Recounts the experiences of John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer who stole rare orchids from a wild swamp in south Florida and sparked one of the country's most controversial environmental battles.

Allan Perkins has had access to the Garfield and other papers, as well as drawing upon other resources of the Reconstruction Era.

Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile. This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors.