A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, AllSouls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie,the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration ofwhite poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemesand busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewncharacters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing singlemother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children.Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence,MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but movinghonesty.

As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus ofcountless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil atevery one. His intimates and collaborators included Keith Richards,William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn,and Clarence White. Parsons led the Byrds to create the seminalcountry rock masterpiece Sweetheart of the Rodeo, helped to guidethe Rolling Stones beyond the blues in their appreciation ofAmerican roots music, and found his musical soul mate in EmmylouHarris. Parsons’ solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, are nowrecognized as visionary masterpieces of the transcendentaljambalaya of rock, soul, country, gospel, and blues Parsons named“Cosmic American Music.” Parsons had everything–looks, charisma,money, style, the best drugs, the most heartbreaking voice–andthrew it all away with both hands, dying of a drug and alcoholoverdose at age twenty-six. In this beautifully written, raucous, meticulously researchedbiography, David N. Meyer gi

If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more thanonce, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fiftyyears, he’s taken the stuff of his life—the good and the bad—andmade from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of ourmusical heritage and kept us company through the good and the badof our own lives. So it’s fitting, and cause for celebration, thathe has finally set down in his own words a book that does justiceto his great gifts as a storyteller. In The Facts of Life ,Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and whathasn’t. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a bookas wise and hilarious as its author.

Discoveredintheatticinwhichshespentthelastyearsofherlife,AnneFrank'sremarkablediaryhassincebecomeaworldclassic apowerfulreminderofthehorrorsofwarandaneloquenttestamenttothehumanspirit.In1942,withNazisoccupyingHolland,athirteen-year-oldJewishgirlandherfamilyfledtheirhomeinAmsterdamandwentintohiding.Forthenexttwoyears,untiltheirwhereaboutswerebetrayedtotheGestapo,theyandanotherfamilylivedcloisteredinthe"SecretAnnex"ofanoldofficebuilding.Cutofffromtheoutsideworld,theyfacedhunger,boredom,theconstantcrueltiesoflivinginconfinedquarters,andtheever-presentthreatofdiscoveryanddeath.InherdiaryAnneFrankrecordedvividimpressionsofherexperiencesduringthisperiod.Byturnsthoughtful,moving,andamusing,heraccountoffersafascinatingcommentaryonhumancourageandfrailtyandacompellingself-portraitofasensitiveandspiritedyoungwomanwhosepromisewastragicallycutshort.

After two thousand years of flawed history, here at last is amagnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out ofthe shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place ofimportance in Christianity.Throughout history, Mary Magdalene hasbeen both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on manyforms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, thedevoted companion (and perhaps even the wife) of Jesus. In thisbrilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblicalscholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait ofthis fascinating woman. Through groundbreaking interpretations ofancient texts, Chilton shows that Mary played a central role inJesus’ ministry and was a seminal figure in the creation ofChristianity. Chilton’s de*ions of who Mary Magdalene was and what she didchallenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar tomost readers. Placing Mary within the traditions of Jewish femalesavants, Chilton presents a visionary figure who was fully imm

V. S. Naipaul is perhaps the most famous émigré writer sinceVladimir Nabokov, and though he always spoke and wrote English, hisself-imposed exile to England from his native Trinidad representeda cultural shift as profound as learning to think in anotherlanguage. In this moving, novel-like correspondence, we witness thegreat writer’s early transformation from an expatriate adrift to aworld-renowned man of letters. The letters collected here illuminate with unalloyed candor therelationship between a sacrificing father and his determined son asthey encourage each other to persevere with their writing. Forthough his father’s literary aspirations would go unrealized,Naipaul’s triumphant career would ultimately vindicate his belovedmentor’s legacy.

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, thelyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decadeshe lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances hewanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that noone before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tellsus the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life.Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as achild in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band withMick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones' first fame andsuccess as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust andsubsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishmentthat led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creatingimmortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'StreetFighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with AnitaPallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France,wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'So

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.

In My Hands began as one non-Jew’s challenge toany who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of AnneFrank , it has become a profound document of anindividual’s heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind hasknown. In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut’s beloved Poland,ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-oldCatholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her thestrength to accomplish what amounted to miracles. Forced into theservice of the German army, young Irene was able, due in part toher Aryan good looks, to use her position as a servant in anofficers’ club to steal food and supplies (and even informationoverheard at the officers’ tables) for the Jews in the ghetto. Shesmuggled Jews out of the work camps, ultimately hiding a dozenpeople in the home of a Nazi major for whom she washousekeeper. An important addition to the literature of human survival andheroism, In My Hands is further proof of why, in spite ofeverything, we mus

波姬·小丝（Brooke Christa Shields）， 美国 著名 女演员 和 模特 ，1965年生于 纽约 城，拥有 意大利 、 法国 、 爱尔兰 和 英国 的贵族血统，其祖母是意大利公主Donna Marina Torlonia。小丝出生11个月就为香皂拍过广告，14岁就成为Vogue杂志封面年轻的时装模特；更是用家喻户晓的广告成就了Calvin Klein品牌牛仔装。13岁就在1978年的影片《漂亮宝贝》(Pretty Baby)中扮演一个童妓；1980年的《青春珊瑚岛/蓝色泻湖》(Blue Lagoon)中，出演因海上事故流落荒岛逐渐长大成为少年的两个孩子中的女孩，青春靓丽脱俗的形象让年仅15岁的波姬·小丝红极一时。

Partly by chance, partly by design-is there anyone else who so wanted to be different?-there was never a life like Michael Jackson's. Preposterously talented, fronting the Jackson 5 from early childhood, he captivated kids, and more than a few grown-ups, with fancy footwork, effortless high C's and charisma to burn. And that was only prelude. Thriller launched Jackson into a new level of celebrity stratosphere - more media, more attention, more intensity - that even Elvis or the Beatles had never experienced. How he dealt with that fame - how he used it, and how it, arguably, overwhelmed him - became, in later years, the heart of the Michael Jackson story. Remembering Michael looks back at the triumphs, and struggles, of a life like no other.

An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife,devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed authorof the bestselling Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women andmost popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea is aperennial favorite. But the woman behind the public person hasremained largely unknown. Drawing on five years of exclusiveinterviews with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as well as countless diaries,letters, and other documents, Susan Hertog now gives us the womanwhose triumphs, struggles and elegant perseverance riveted thepublic for much of the twentieth century.

I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) is Stephen Colbert's attempt to wedge his brain between hardback covers. In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt and/or whistle, Stephen explains his take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: Faith, Family, Politics...Hygiene.