NATIONAL BESTSELLER Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she cameto Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekendphysician in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at New YorkCity’s Bellevue Hospital. In this absorbing memoir, Hollandrecounts stories from her vast case files that are alternatelyterrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serialkiller, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, theschizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet thevoices in his head, the subway conductor who watched a young womanpushed into the path of his train. Writing with uncommon candor, Holland supplies not only apage-turner with all the fast-paced immediacy of a TV medical dramabut also a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors whostruggle to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in theeye of the beholder.

McCain, with help from his administrative assistant Salter,picks up where the bestselling Faith of My Fathers left off, afterhis release from a North Vietnamese POW prison. After two decadesin Congress, he has plenty of stories to tell, beginning with hisfirst experiences on Capitol Hill as a navy liaison to the Senate,where he became friends with men like Henry "Scoop" Jackson andJohn Tower. (The latter friendship plays a crucial role in McCain'saccount of the battle over Tower's 1989 nomination for defensesecretary.) He revisits the "Keating Five" affair that nearlywrecked his career in the early '90s, pointedly observing how theinvestigating Senate committee left him dangling for politicalreasons long after he'd been cleared of wrongdoing. There's muchless on his 2000 presidential campaign than one might expect; asingle chapter lingers on a self-lacerating analysis of how he lostthe South Carolina primary. (He admits, "I doubt I shall havereason or opportunity to try again" for the White House, and

“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to sharetheir wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons haveemerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of oldbuddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-publishedmemoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, ittruly was an American experience, from the centers of power to themost humble corners of the land.” —Tom Brokaw In this beautiful American family album of stories from theGreatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during theDepression and World War II comes alive and is preserved inpeople’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorateimportant dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlistedin 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March.A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation.Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in suchhistoric episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle ofthe Bul

“Alice writes like he golfs: straight and right down themiddle. Like a lot of us golf addicts, he's spent his fair share ofhis life getting out of the rough and back onto the green. Ifyou're like me and only read like a book a year (OK, like everydecade), this should be the one.” —John Daly “What a blast from the past, and such insight to the future!Alice Cooper, Golf Monster shares Alice's personal life mission,interwoven with great stories and characters from the 60's throughthe present in Rock and Roll. Not to mention some wonderful golftips and experiences, humorously presented. Thank you Alice, for anice ride!” —Michael Douglas, actor and creator of the Michael Douglas Friends Charity Golf Tournament “Few things are more surreal than playing golf with a guy namedAlice. But by the time you reach the second tee, you realize thatNo More Mr. Nice Guy is one of the wittiest and engaging playingpartners you've ever had. Plus, the guy can play! For tho

Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with littlemore than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustainher. But what began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne Ecolede Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine andculture, culminating in permanent residency in 1994. "On Rue Tatin"chronicles her journey to an ancient little street in Louviers,one of Normandy's most picturesque towns. With lyrical prose andwry candor, Loomis recalls the miraculous restoration that she andher husband performed on the dilapidated convent they chose fortheir new residence. As its ochre and azure floor tiles emerged,challenges outside the dwelling mounted. From squatters to a surlypriest next door, along with a close-knit community wary ofoutsiders, Loomis tackled the social challenges head-on, throughpersistent dialogue-and baking. "On Rue Tatin "includes deliciousrecipes that evoke the essence of this region, such as Apple andThyme Tart, Duck Breast with Cider, and Braised Chicken i

The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See YouTomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as heretraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, takingreaders into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and smallbusinessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how theyimagined the world to come.

Immensely readable...A Chicano Manchild in the PromisedLand." -- Publishers Weekly Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971,Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer andnotorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr.Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite forfood, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book isAcosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in thepsychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breakingall tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong insearch of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark ofcontemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal,and unmistakably authentic. "Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the lifestory of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are inquestion, and whose society seems to be fragmenting aroundhim." -- Saturday Review of Lite

From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships withwomen, both personal and political. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote thewords “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortablewith woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for thefounding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with his awkwardcourtship of Rebecca Burwell, who declined Jefferson's marriageproposal, and his unwelcome advances toward the wife of a boyhoodfriend. Subsequent chapters describe his decade-long marriage toMartha Wayles Skelton, his flirtation with Maria Cosway, and thestill controversial relationship with Sally Hemings. A rivetingstudy of a complex man, Mr. Jefferson's Women is sure tospark debate.