"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life"--|cProvided by publisher.

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency,a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes listeners on a compelling journey from his earliest...

Momus-named for the ancient Greek god of mockery, and described by the Guardian as "the David Bowie of the art-pop underground"-has recorded over thirty albums for labels like 4AD and Creation, published half a dozen works of speculative fiction, and written articles for the New York Times, Wired, ArtForum, Frieze, and the Wire. An unknown band called Pulp once asked him to produce their next album. (He said no.) An unknown band called Of Montreal...

Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, this biography offers a fresh and original look at the life and career of Robin Williams. New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff explores how comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt. Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression, and with a debilitating...

From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to prime minister.

"From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O'Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a provocative question- What if the plot to assassinate President Lincoln was wider and more sinister than we ever imagined? n late spring of 1865, as America mourns the death of its leader, Washington, D.C., police detective Temple McFadden makes a startling discovery. Strapped to the body of a dead man at the B&O Railroad station are two diaries, two...

The classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the tumultuous 1960, is a monument in political biography.

Lacy Crawford presents a memoir of the struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her, at any cost. Crawford explores the channels of shame and guilt, witness and silencing, that dictate who can speak and who is heard in American society. This coming-of-age story wrestles with an essential question for our time: what telling of a survivor's story will finally force a remedy?...

Explores the bond between the Knotek sisters, who after years of suffering at the hand of a sadistic mother, ended up snared in a web that ended in multiple murders.