The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares herinspirational message on the challenges and blessings of copingwith adversity. She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country,and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways,she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship.Loving marriage. But she’s no stranger to adversity. Many know ofthe strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in afreak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She wouldexhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the veryprivate matter of her husband's infidelity became public fodder.And her own life has been on the line. Days before the 2004presidential election—when her husband John was running for vicepresident—she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After rounds ofsurgery, chemotherapy, and radiation the cancer went away—only toreoccur in 2007. While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth met many others who havehad to contend with se

Dennis Rodman shoots from the lip as he talks about everythingfrom the NBA and his game, his sexuality, dating, his wild flingwith superstar Madonna, and morality. Reprint."

Ever wonder what it would take to turn all of your dreams intoreality? In The Life You Imagine , All-Star New York Yankeesshortstop Derek Jeter shows how you can use the same game plan thathelped an eight-year-old boy who fantasized about playing baseballfor the Bronx Bombers grow up and become MVP of the 2000 WorldSeries. With the help and support of both of his parents, Derekdeveloped a practical program that would assist him in achievingall of his personal and professional aspirations-and now he shareshis secrets to success so that you can get closer to living yourdream, too. In this inspiring, information-packed book, Derek provides you withthe ten lessons that have guided him throughout his life on and offthe field, from his dream of being a gifted, hardworking athlete tohis goal of becoming an active community leader. Using personalstories from his own life as a student athlete in Kalamazoo,Michigan, and as a Yankee team player, Derek writes about thesimple steps that put him on course for success, i

In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy oncevowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the workgoes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dreamshall never die." Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives werecut off before the promise of a better future could be realized,Ted lived long enough to make many promises come true. During acareer that spanned an astonishing half-century, he put his imprinton every major piece of progressive legislation–from health careand education to civil rights.

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

In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.

Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a grayduffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling acrossAmerica. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sittingnext to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named ThomasHarvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- thensimply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for overforty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave NewJersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein'sperplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as theimaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-drivengenius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars.Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, andpart meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique roadtrips in modern literature.

William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a father who farmed with tractors and drainage ditches but consorted with movie stars; and of Kittredge himself, who was raised by cowboys and saw them become

"A true emotional phenomenon...Entertaining...Of particularinterest to fans will be the evolution of Johnson's relationshipwith Bird, his great karmic partner in the game." NEW YORK NEWSDAY He's faced challenges all of his life, butnow Magic Johnson faces the biggest challenge of all, his own bravebattle with HIV. In this dramatic, exciting, and inspirationalautobiography, Magic Johnson allows readers into his life, into histirumphs and tragedies on and off the court. In his own exuberantstyle, he tells readers of the friends and family who've beenconstant supporters and the basketball greats he's worked with.It's all here, the glory and the pain the character, charisma, andcourage of the hero called Magic. AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTHCLUB

Jon Katz, a respected journalist, father, and husband, wasturning fifty. His writing career had taken a dubious turn, hiswife had a demanding career of her own, his daughter was preparingto leave home for college, and he had become used to a sedentarylifestyle. Wonderfully witty and insightful, Running to theMountain chronicles Katz's hunger for change and his search forrenewed purpose and meaning in his familiar world. Armed with the writings of Thomas Merton and his two faithfulLabradors, Katz trades in his suburban carpool-driving and escapesto the mountains of upstate New York. There, as he restores adilapidated cabin, learns self-reliance in a lightning storm,shares a bottle of Glenlivet with unexpected ghosts, and helps afriend prepare for fatherhood, he confronts his lifelong questionsabout spirituality, mortality, and his own self-worth. Heultimately rediscovers a profound appreciation for his work, hisfamily, and the beauty of everyday life--and provides a gloriouslesson for us all.

In this beautifully written and profoundly stirringautobiography, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of hisGatsby-esque father, an inveterate liar who falsified everythingbut love. 8 pages of black-and-white photos.

For Malcolm Jones, his parents’ disintegrating marriage was atthe center of life in North Carolina in the 1950s and 60s. Hisfather, charming but careless, was often drunk and away from home;his mother, a schoolteacher and faded Southern belle, clung to thepast and hungered for respectability. In Little Boy Lost ,Jones—one of our most admired cultural observers—recalls achildhood in which this relationship played out against the largercracks of society: the convulsions of desegregation and a popularculture that threatens the church-centered life of his family. Herichly evokes a time and place with rare depth and candor, givingus the fundamental stories of a life—where he comes from, who hewas, who he has become.