The daughter of a immigrant Jewish dry goods store owner tells of growing up in a small Tennessee town where they are the only Jewish family.

Singer Sting tells his life story up to the breakthrough of his band, the Police, focusing on his relationships with his parents, their influence on his love relationships, and his struggle to make a living from his passion, music.

Reflecting on her childhood spent with her dysfunctional family in the Canadian wilderness, a former model and happily married mother of three shares her struggle to survive in an unusual world and her search for a more normal life.

"Like a Tucker Max with heart, Jason Mulgrew's wildly popular blog gives rise to a memoir of startling insight, comedy, and irreversible, unconscionable stupidity"--

This unforgettable, bestselling memoir by a gifted writer introduces the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.

Mark Bouman recounts the events of his childhood at the hands of his larger-than-life, Neo-Nazi father in brilliant, startling detail in this memoir. From adventure-filled days complete with real-life war games, artillery fire, and tank races to terror-filled nights marked by vicious tirades, brutal beatings, and psychological torture, Mark paints a chilling portrait of family life that is at once whimsical and horrific, all building to a shocking...

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage-learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio-and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory...

Childhood of the explorer and soldier who won the Northwest Territory for the United States during the Revolutionary War.

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.