The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls

An amazingly touching and heartwarming story about human victory against odds and frustrations.

Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir (Paperback)
by Barbara Robinette Moss

A remarkable story of resilience and redemption, this book is an important witness to the destructiveness of family secrets and the hope for people demanding change for themselves and their families.

Suite Française (Hardcover)
by Irene Némirovsky

A remarkable piece of art and a captivating blend of fiction and fact, history and storytelling, this book is a WWII classic of chaos, fear and loss.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert

A woman's journey to her soul - a memoir, travel guide, self help, and philosophy book, for anyone that ever wanted to find their own path.

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Paperback)
by Peter Hessler

An unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

German Boy: A Child in War (Paperback)
by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

There is a thread of hope, an appreciation for random kindness, and an ability to look beyond the depravity of humankind that pervades this brave and poignant memoir of a man who went on to serve 30 years in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a colonel.

A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Norman Maclean

A book that you will read again and again - the story, the life's lessons, the metaphors, the prose, the poetic descriptions of life, fishing, nature, relationships, human weaknesses... Simply amazing and beautiful!

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardcover)
by Alan Greenspan

Part memoir, part economic analysis, this long awaited new book from Alan Greenspan promises lots of surprises you'll be delighted to embrace.

Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by Walter Isaacson

An awesome book about a man who was larger than life: a thorough portrait of Einstein, which also draws out the flawed human in this great man.

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers (Paperback)
by Robert L. Heilbroner

A nice summary and analysis of the great Economic thinkers from Adam Smith, Marx, Ricardo to Mill, Keynes, Schumpeter and others. A helpful bibliography.