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The audio edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated with new material. Focusing on Coll's journeys in conflict-ridden India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan as a bureau chief for The Washington Post, On the Grand Trunk Road reveals a little-seen area of the world where violence, corruption, and greed have had devastating effects on South Asians from all walks of life.

In A Grand Theory of Everything, McGirk takes us from the winding backstreets of New Delhi to his cramped apartment in New York City, and then on to his eventual relocation with his wife to the empty plains of Oklahoma. And, most importantly, he takes us inside his own head, where his weird theories take shape to help him understand his alienation from his family, his struggles to find a career, his wife's failing health, and all of life's hardships.

In a sharp, witty memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung pulls no punches in detailing her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry—"an absorbing look at a pioneering news figure" (TIME)...

Esta es la historia de una familia que amaba reunirse, comer, beber, reír, bailar y discutir. Que amaba el sol y el hedonismo de los días de verano. Este es el testimonio abrumador de una mujer que se atreve a revelar un secreto que guardó durante años. Un secreto que ahoga la memoria, que oprime, que anula el placer para siempre, que baila al ritmo del miedo y se alimenta de la vergüenza y de la culpa.

In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer - homeless and drug-addicted for 11 years - found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time. With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York.

Comprendre Malraux, c'est d'abord l'écouter. Sa parole est une illumination. Un éclairage indispensable (...) Au commencement, donc, il y a sa voix. Cette voix, que nous avons voulu faire entendre ici, surgie des limbes, intacte, est un défi au temps qui nous broie et à l’intelligence qui nous manque. Une voix à l’affût des éternelles projections de l’âme humaine. La voix, chez Malraux, est le pendant du regard - ce regard unique qu'il sut porter sur la politique, l'histoire, l'art. C'est la voix de la France.

This beloved New York Times bestselling memoir from "Ask Amy" is a warm and moving true story of second chances in a tiny upstate New York town. Dear Amy, First my husband told me he didn't love me. Then he said he didn't think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by...

Hay escritores con manías dignas de un loquero y vidas tan asombrosas que hacen palidecer a las de sus propios personajes. Novelistas incapaces de escribir una página sin tener una copa en la mano o tan prolíficos que acabaron asfixiados en su propio ego. Un Hemingway yéndose al otro mundo en circunstancias exactas a la que eligió su padre, dos de sus hermanas y una nieta. Un Scott Fitzgerald que entraba a los casinos a cuatro patas o una Virginia Woolf que no soportaba leer sus textos.

Ya de niño parecía que Pablo estaba destinado a ser un gran artista. Tenía una facilidad asombrosa para pintar. Tras dominar todo tipo de técnicas, dedicó su vida al arte. Pero no siempre lo tuvo fácil. Cuando empezó era tan pobre que incluso a veces quemaba sus propios cuadros para mantener su pequeño estudio caliente. Pero Pablo nunca abandonó su sueño y transformó el arte para siempre. Esta es la historia de la vida de uno de los artistas más influyentes del mundo.

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world is a much dirtier, nastier...

The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts—battled both the US government and fellow radicals. At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom...

Rapidi, pastosi, materici come le pennellate di un pittore informale, i capitoli che compongono questa autobiografia, attraversano il Novecento più colto e avventuroso. Fra una risata irriverente e qualche nostalgia, Ezio Frigerio ricorda la sua lunga esistenza con una sorprendente lucidità sentimentale. Nato da famiglia benestante comasca durante il fascismo, l’autore non esita a sorridere malignamente della buona borghesia locale.

An in-depth memoir from famed newsman Dan Rather, who looks back over his storied and sometimes controversial career and reveals his personal thoughts and reflections. This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his...

Lisa Guerrero chronicles her iconic career—from dealing with harassment as a sports broadcaster to chasing “bad guys” for Inside Edition—and proves that through small, daily acts, bravery is a muscle we can strengthen over time. I’ve been a cheerleader. A corporate executive. A Barbie...

Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people...

Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller. Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on...

Rudyard Kipling era un joven reportero cuando encontró la perdición en el barrio erótico del Lahore colonial; el marinero Joseph Conrad descubrió en Borneo un mundo hecho para «los hombres sin entrañas»; y George Orwell se inspiró en el enclave de Khata, donde trabajó como policía imperial, para escribir sus Días de Birmania. David Jiménez sigue los pasos de nueve escritores legendarios por Oriente, recorre los escenarios de sus libros y nos desvela qué permanece —y qué se ha desvanecido— en los destinos que marcaron sus vidas y su obra.

Max Allan Collins became Spillane's friend and collaborator, continuing the Mike Hammer series for years after the author's death, building upon unfinished manuscripts the writer left behind. Now, with coauthor James Traylor, Collins has produced the first comprehensive and authoritative profile of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. It is a must-listen for any fan of the author—or of the generations of crime writers that were influenced by his work.

Avido di piacere non meno che di conoscenza, Raffaello Sanzio intuisce molto presto che soltanto nella Roma libera, felice e sfrenatamente sensuale di Giulio II e Leone X il suo talento potrà essere apprezzato. Vi arriva venticinquenne, la incarna e la seduce diventando nel giro di pochi mesi la stella più brillante del suo firmamento intellettuale. La morte, a soli 37 anni, lascia la città nella disperazione che segue la scomparsa di un principe ammirato e amato.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.