Me and Shakespeare
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49818-0 (0-385-49818-7)

On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >

Paris to the Moon

Written by Adam Gopnik

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75823-2 (0-375-75823-2)

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more >

Through the Children's Gate
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7575-1 (1-4000-7575-0)

Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New... Read more >

Circling My Mother

Written by Mary Gordon

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27761-9 (0-307-27761-5)

Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise... Read more >

The Springs of Namje
A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress
Written by Rajeev Goyal

Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0175-2 (0-8070-0175-9)

A Peace Corps volunteer’s inspirational story about the power of small change.

In 2001, Peace Corps volunteer Rajeev Goyal was sent to Namje, a remote village in the eastern hills of Nepal. Brimming with idealism, he expected to find people living in conditions of misery and suffering; instead, he discovered a village... Read more >

Little Saint

Written by Hannah Green

Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75747-1 (0-375-75747-3)

In the early 1970s, Hannah Green and her husband came upon a small village called Conques, curled like a conch shell in the mountains of south-central France. Entranced, she returned to this numinous place again and again, drawn to the story of the little saint whose spirit fills the lives of... Read more >

Beg, Borrow, Steal
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74067-0 (0-307-74067-6)

Michael Greenberg’s stunning collection entertainingly chronicles the hardships, delights, and moral dilemmas of being a writer and a New Yorker. To eke out a living, Greenberg doctors doomed movie scripts, peddles cosmetics on the street, and waits tables at a posh restaurant, all while raising his son on the Lower East... Read more >

Beg, Borrow, Steal
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg

Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-341-5 (1-59051-341-X)

From the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Hurry Down Sunshine, Beg, Borrow, Steal is an autobiography in installments, set in New York, where the author depicts the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft, or simply stay alive. He finds himself writing about golf, a... Read more >

Hurry Down Sunshine
A Father's Story of Love and Madness
Written by Michael Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47354-7 (0-307-47354-6)

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the... Read more >

fathermothergod
My Journey Out of Christian Science
Written by Lucia Greenhouse

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-72092-4 (0-307-72092-6)

Lucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood. She lived with her mother, father, sister, and brother in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis. Yet in this house you could not be sick, because you were perfect. When it came to accidents and illnesses, Lucia’s parents didn’t take her to the... Read more >

Sickened
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38197-9 (0-553-38197-0)

Munchausen By Proxy (MBP), a psychiatric disorder in which a person (almost always the mother) invents or induces symptoms in her child in order to attract the interest and attention of medical professionals, is an oft-misunderstood and seldomly discussed affliction.

In Sickened, Julie Gregory has written a powerful and searing memoir of... Read more >

Twilight
Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
Written by Henry Grunwald
Foreword by Mark G. Ackermann

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-80396-2 (0-345-80396-5)

In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration—a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15... Read more >

Dancing with Cuba
A Memoir of the Revolution
Written by Alma Guillermoprieto

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72581-4 (0-375-72581-4)

In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the... Read more >

Life Work

Written by Donald Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 15, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7133-5 (0-8070-7133-1)

Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love.

“The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always.”–Louis Begley, The New York Times

“A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness. . . . Life... Read more >

Without a Map
A Memoir
Written by Meredith Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7274-5 (0-8070-7274-5)

Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving... Read more >

Losing My Faculties
A Teacher's Story
Written by Brendan Halpin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6951-1 (0-8129-6951-0)

Brendan Halpin’s It Takes a Worried Man—a memoir of how he and his family dealt with his wife’s battle against breast cancer—was praised for its can-dor, raw humor, and riveting voice. Halpin now turns his unique talent to an unforgettable account of the pursuit of his true calling: teaching.

Losing My Faculties... Read more >

Motoring with Mohammed
Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
Written by Eric Hansen

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73855-8 (0-679-73855-X)

In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country... Read more >

Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911

Written by Malvina Shanklin Harlan
Afterword by Linda Przybyszewski
Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6744-9 (0-8129-6744-5)

Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era, including his lone dissenting opinion in Plessy... Read more >

Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0171-4 (0-8070-0171-6)

A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds

In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN, in Appalachia. In... Read more >

The Blue Cotton Gown
A Midwife's Memoir
Written by Patricia Harman

Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7291-2 (0-8070-7291-5)

Despite nurse-midwife Patsy Harman’s own financial and personal medical trials, including her private battle with uterine cancer, she devotes herself to her patients’ well-being in all aspects of their lives. They, in turn, tell her intimate stories both heartbreaking and uplifting.

‘In her sweetly perceptive memoir, Harman reveals how her exam room... Read more >

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49506-6 (0-385-49506-4)

For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever—his own.

Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn... Read more >

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-50264-1 (0-385-50264-8)

For almost a decade, author E. Lynn Harris has crafted popular novels which, on the surface, depict mostly affluent, sexually secure, and confident African-American men and their relatively care-free and comfortable lives. Now, in What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, he has decided to write one of his most honest, truthful, and... Read more >

Haywire

Written by Brooke Hayward

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73959-9 (0-307-73959-7)

From the moment of its publication in 1977, Haywire was a national sensation and a #1 bestseller, a celebrated Hollywood memoir of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurked just beneath the surface.

Brooke Hayward was born into the most enviable of circumstances. The daughter of a famous actress and... Read more >

Black Virgin Mountain
A Return to Vietnam
Written by Larry Heinemann

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7689-5 (1-4000-7689-7)

In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war... Read more >

Now and Then
From Coney Island to Here
Written by Joseph Heller

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 26, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70055-2 (0-375-70055-2)

In Now and Then Joseph Heller begins with his fatherless childhood on the boardwalks of Depression-era Coney Island, where he coexisted with the rumble of the Cyclone and the tantalizing aroma of Mrs. Shatzkin's knishes. He later offers a dizzying bombardier's-eye view of the sky over wartime Italy, where he encountered... Read more >