Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple andJonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the "trulyunforgettable" ( Kirkus Review ) story of how one woman wasseduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and howshe found her way back to sanity. From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share ofcult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compellingas the Jonestown massacre of 1978, in which the Reverend Jim Jonesand 913 of his disciples perished. Deborah Layton had been a memberof the Peoples Temple for seven years when she departed forJonestown, Guyana, the promised land nestled deep in the SouthAmerican jungle. When she arrived, however, Layton saw thatsomething was seriously wrong. Jones constantly spoke of arevolutionary mass suicide, and Layton knew only too well that hehad enough control over the minds of the Jonestown residents tocarry it out. But her pleas for help--and her sworn affidavit tothe U.S. government--fell on skeptical ears. I

Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her earlylife in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the topof the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and agrandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went onto become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters andsingers in modern country music. Here we see the determination andtalent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the firstwoman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country MusicAssociation and the first woman to receive a gold record in countrymusic.

MARVELOUS . . . BREATHTAKING. --The New York Times Book Review "MAILER SHINES . . . Explaining Kennedy's assassination throughthe flaws in Oswald's character has been attempted before, notablyby Gerald Posner in Case Closed and Don Delillo in Libra. Butneither handled Oswald with the kind of dexterity and literaryimagination that Mailer here supplies in great force. . . .Oswald's Tale weaves a story not only about Oswald or Kennedy'sdeath but about the culture surrounding the assassination, one thatremains replete with miscomprehensions, unraveled threads and lackof resolution: All of which makes Oswald's Tale more true-to-lifethan any fact-driven treatise could hope to be. . . . VintageMailer." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "FASCINATING . . . A MASTER STORYTELLER . . . Mailer gives us ourclearest, deepest view of Oswald yet. . . . Inside three pages youare utterly absorbed." --Detroit Free Press "MAILER AT HIS BEST . . . LIVELY AND CONVINCING . . .EXTREMELY LUCI

Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strangeadventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extremesportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challengeand a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted asingle-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of FrenchGuiana and then twice crossed the broad Pacific on rafts of his owndesign, with only housecats and a parrot for companionship. Hisfirst voyage, atop a ten-ton balsa monstrosity, was undertaken in1954 when Willis was sixty. His second raft, having crossed eleventhousand miles from Peru, found the north shore of Australiashortly after Willis’s seventieth birthday. A marvel of vigor andfitness, William Willis was a connoisseur of ordeal, all butorchestrating short rations, ship-wreck conditions, and crushingsolitude on his trans-Pacific voyages. He’d been inspired by Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl’s bid to provethat a primitive raft could negotiate the open ocean. Willis’strips confirmed tha

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

From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces aremeditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writerMahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prosepieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his life. I don'tbelieve any autobiography, with its inevitable implication ofself-presentation, could have matched what we have here." With more than500,000 copies of his books in print, Naguib Mahfouz hasestablished a following of readers for whom Echoes of anAutobiography provides a unique opportunity to catch anintimate glimpse into the life and mind of this magnificentstoryteller. Here, in his first work of nonfiction ever to bepublished in the United States, Mahfouz considers the myriadperplexities of existence, including preoccupations with old age,death, and life's transitory nature. A surprising and delightfuldeparture from his bestselling and much-loved fiction, this unusualand thoughtful book is breathtaking evidence of the fact thatNaguib Mahfouz is not onl

This edition has been updated to reflect new developments andincludes new material obtained through the Freedom of InformationAct. Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contractto join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. Whenhe was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born.But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerablymore complicated than the public knew... A stunning account of a remarkable young man's heroic life anddeath, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air,and Under the Banner of Heaven.

"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make thatlinebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okayto lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving ityour best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they calledSweetness, for the way he ran—remains the most prolific runningback in the history of the National Football League, the star ofthe Chicago Bears' only Super Bowl Championship, eleven times votedthe most popular sports figure in Chicago's history. Off the field,he was a devoted father whose charitable foundation benefited tensof thousands of children each year, and who—faced with terminalliver disease—refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferentialposition for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a footballhero; he was America's hero. Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from theheart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to getgirls' attention, and went on to become a Black CollegeAll-