Gail Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion and courage in LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME, her memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife.
Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, 10-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day would come so soon.
Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion.
Teenage Johanna --- who lives in a remote coastal town in Finland --- sets out to unravel her family history, the identity of her mother, and the dark secrets long buried with her father.
Lola, a Filipino mother of five, takes a job as a nanny in America to pay for her daughter’s education, bringing some stability to a rocky Hollywood household.
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would very nearly cost him his life.
This rich and powerful work of historical fiction expertly chronicles both the politics of the Pacific theater of World War II, and the personal relationships borne from the tragedies of warfare.
Culled from an array of sources, A MOSQUE IN MUNICH interweaves tales of a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naive CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon: Islam.
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April's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature films Avengers: Infinity War, Lean on Pete and Disobedience; the series premieres of "Howards End" on Starz and "Killing Eve" on BBC America, along with the season finale of "The Magicians" on Syfy; and the DVD releases of Maze Runner: The Death Cure, My Friend Dahmer and Paddington 2.