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Greatness takes shape long before conquest, in the private loyalties and brutal lessons that teach a boy what power can do.
Fire from Heaven
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History
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Greatness takes shape long before conquest, in the private loyalties and brutal lessons that teach a boy what power can do. As Alexander grows between a violent father, a consuming mother, and the demands of a kingdom at war, he becomes both more magnetic and more dangerous. Fire from Heaven fits a historical fiction list with its intimate portrait of ambition, emotional complexity, and the making of a legend before the world knows his name.
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New York Times Bestseller and Man Booker Prize Finalist: A novel of ancient Greece by the author Hilary Mantel calls "a shining light."
Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renault's unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious son's love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conqueror's two great bonds—to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistion—and of the army he commands when he is barely an adult.
Coming of age during the battles for southern Greece, Alexander the Great appears in all of his colors—as the man who first takes someone's life at age twelve and who swiftly eliminates his rivals as soon as he comes to power—and emerges as a captivating, complex, larger-than-life figure.
Fire from Heaven is the first volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which continues with The Persian Boy and Funeral Games.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.
"Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us." —Hilary Mantel
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After surviving a missile attack that should have ended his life, Benjamin Hall begins the harder battle of learning how to live again.
Resolute
Biographies & Memoirs
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After surviving a missile attack that should have ended his life, Benjamin Hall begins the harder battle of learning how to live again. In Resolute, he traces his recovery through pain, trauma, medical insight, and the people who helped carry him forward. It fits readers drawn to memoirs of survival, resilience, and the stubborn human will to rebuild after catastrophe.
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Saved tells the remarkable survival story of his harrowing recovery after surviving a deadly Russian missile attack in Ukraine, and shares the most profound lessons he learned about the power of resilience.
After suffering horrific, nearly-fatal injuries while covering the war in Ukraine in 2022, Benjamin Hall was told he’d need to spend two years in a hospital learning how to walk again. Instead, he made it home to his family in just six months. Sustained by his positive attitude and relentless will to keep moving forward, Hall impressed and inspired all those who followed his inspirational true story and progress, with many wondering how they could bottle his seemingly superhuman resolve.
In this unforgettable war correspondent memoir, a clear-eyed work of journalism and personal meditation elevated by remarkable storytelling, Resolute is Hall’s probing inquiry into why he is alive and thriving today. As he confronts his own mortality, Hall analyzes the key factors that allowed him to survive the missile attack, endure multiple surgeries, adapt to new prosthetics, and successfully begin coping with trauma.
Each chapter features powerful stories from Hall’s arduous recovery, interwoven with expert advice and insights from the extraordinary people he encountered along the way—doctors who heal broken bodies and damaged souls; therapists who push despairing patients to discover the depths of perseverance while overcoming adversity; scientists who have studied how the body and mind are sustained under unfathomable duress; and families who exhibit exceptional strength in the face of sudden tragedy.
Resolute is more than a survival story—it is a testament to the saving power of the human spirit. From embracing post-traumatic optimism to discovering untapped stores of tenacity, this book is a roadmap for those looking to discover and fortify their own powers of resilience and persevere against the odds. As Hall shares the vivid and inspiring account of his own survival, he implores us to consider that these reservoirs of strength and resolve are inherent to our humanity—and reside within each of us, too.
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A daughter grows up inside the fracture line between fierce love and devastating instability, trying to hold onto what remains of her father.
The Parts of Him I Kept
Biographies & Memoirs
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A daughter grows up inside the fracture line between fierce love and devastating instability, trying to hold onto what remains of her father. In The Parts of Him I Kept, Natasha Williams reflects on coming of age with a schizophrenic parent and the lasting weight of care, grief, and memory. It’s a memoir marked by emotional honesty, family complexity, and a clear-eyed search for meaning inside trauma.
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One cold night in April, Natasha’s father drove his car into the frigid water of New York Bay with her two-year-old half-sister in the backseat. She was the one to walk him past the column of hungry reporters demanding an explanation.
The headline in The Daily News read: Back from a Watery Grave. But Natasha’s experiences growing up with her schizophrenic father in the gritty New York City of the 1970s are not so easily captured in a single headline. How could she possibly convey the power of her father’s love in the face of this tragedy?
The Parts of Him I Kept is an intimate account of coming of age in the face of a father’s schizophrenic unraveling. In the tradition of Michael Greenberg’s Hurry Down Sunshine and Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road, Williams explores the limits of our understanding of schizophrenia and chronicles the burden and privilege of caring for a mentally ill family member.
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Identity can feel most fragile when the world keeps handing you new names, new histories, and new ways to disappear.
Floating In A Most Peculiar Way
Biographies & Memoirs
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Identity can feel most fragile when the world keeps handing you new names, new histories, and new ways to disappear. In Floating In A Most Peculiar Way, Louis Chude-Sokei traces a childhood and early life shaped by displacement, family myth, race, and survival across Biafra, Jamaica, and Los Angeles. It reads as a searching, deeply personal memoir about belonging, inheritance, and learning to navigate many versions of Blackness.
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The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles—a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story
The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is "first son of the first son" of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie's strict religious household in Jamaica, where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: "Is this the boy? Is this him?"
Chude-Sokei's immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother, who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime "Jackie O of Biafra," finally sends for him to come live with her. In Inglewood, Los Angeles, on the eve of gangsta rap and the LA riots, it's as if he's fallen to Earth. In this world, anything alien—definitely Chude-Sokei's secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie—is a danger, and his yearning to become a Black American gets deeply, sometimes absurdly, complicated. Ultimately, it is a boisterous pan-African family of honorary aunts, uncles, and cousins that becomes his secret society, teaching him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in his America.
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A single killing opens onto a wider landscape of fear, ideology, and inherited violence.
Anatomy of a Killing
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A single killing opens onto a wider landscape of fear, ideology, and inherited violence. In Anatomy of a Killing, Ian Cobain reconstructs the murder of an off-duty policeman in 1978 and the political machinery surrounding it, using firsthand accounts and official records to trace the human cost of the Troubles. A stark, immersive work of investigative history shaped by grief, conflict, and moral fracture.
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"A concise and gripping history of the Troubles, revealing the people behind the pain and violence" from the award-winning investigative journalist (Vice).
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son.
In Anatomy of a Killing, award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a revelatory work of investigative journalism.
"As gripping as a thriller, except that this isn't fiction but cold, spine-tingling reality." —Daily Mail
"A remarkable piece of forensic journalism." —Ed Moloney, author of Voices from the Grave
"Reads like a work of fiction . . . True and harrowing." —Irish Sunday Independent (Books of the Year)
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This is true crime for readers drawn to historical cases, investigative detail, and unresolved questions that still unsettle.
Cemetery John
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Some crimes refuse to stay settled, especially when the accepted story leaves too many gaps. In Cemetery John, Robert Zorn reexamines the Lindbergh kidnapping and builds a case for an overlooked mastermind, using research, personal documents, and new evidence to challenge decades of assumption. This is true crime for readers drawn to historical cases, investigative detail, and unresolved questions that still unsettle.
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This true crime novel examines the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping, arguing it was orchestrated by a Bronx deli clerk who got away with the crime scot-free.
In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices—including the mastermind—he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership that would shake every class and culture of American society.
Using personal possessions and documents, never-before-seen photographs, new forensic evidence, and extensive research, Robert Zorn has written a shocking and captivating account of the crime and the original "Trial of the Century." From the ecstatic riots that followed the Spirit of St. Louis on either side of the Atlantic, to the tragic night that would shake America's sense of security, to the horror of the New Jersey morgue where Lindbergh insisted on verifying the identity of his son, Zorn's skillful treatment meets this larger-than-life story and gives it definitive shape by revealing the true events behind the crime, for the first time.
Praise for Cemetery John
"Eighty years after the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's baby from their Englewood, N.J., home, the case still raises questions, ones Zorn ably examines through an unusual lens. . . . Retelling the by now familiar story of Charlie Lindbergh's kidnapping, Zorn imbues it with novelistic suspense. Even if Zorn doesn't definitively prove that Knoll, who died in 1980, was the crime's mastermind and Hauptmann's accomplice, he makes a strong case." —Publishers Weekly
"Debut author Zorn makes a compelling case that the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping was orchestrated by a Bronx deli clerk who got away with the crime scot-free. . . . Zorn's research includes new forensic evidence, personal and historical documents, and interviews, laying the foundation for a thrilling true-crime tale that offers a resounding answer to the question of who was really responsible for the kidnapping." —Kirkus Reviews
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Belonging does not come easily when family, culture, and ambition keep pulling in different directions.
We Were Dreamers
Biographies & Memoirs
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Belonging does not come easily when family, culture, and ambition keep pulling in different directions. In We Were Dreamers, Simu Liu traces his path from childhood in China to life in Canada and, eventually, to Hollywood, while reckoning with immigrant expectations, personal failure, and the search for identity. This memoir blends humor and honesty with a moving portrait of reinvention, reconciliation, and choosing a life that feels fully your own.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant in a candid celebrity memoir about his battles with cultural stereotypes, his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.
In this honest, inspiring and relatable immigrant story, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor.
Simu's parents left him in the care of his grandparents, then brought him to Canada when he was four. Life as a Canuck, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be; Simu's new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to - although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language, and values.
As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious child flawlessly in a classic tale of the model minority myth - he gets straight A's, crushes national math competitions and makes his parents proud. But as time passes, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the path that has been laid out for him. Less than a year out of college, at the tender age of 22, his life hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Left to his own devices, and with nothing left to lose, Simu embarks on a journey that will take him far outside of his comfort zone into the world of show business.
Through a swath of rejection and comical mishaps, Simu's determination to carve out a path for himself leads him to not only succeed as an actor, but also to open the door to reconciling with his parents.
We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir - it's a powerful coming-of-age story about growing up between cultures, navigating family conflict, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.
But what happens when the path your parents lay out for you leads to a dead end?
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Visibility can feel dangerous when a family’s future depends on remaining unseen.
Children of the Land
Biographies & Memoirs
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Visibility can feel dangerous when a family’s future depends on remaining unseen. In Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo recounts growing up undocumented in the United States, tracing the fear, separation, and resilience that shaped his family’s life. It fits readers drawn to memoirs that are intimate, politically resonant, and grounded in the emotional cost of displacement, belonging, and survival.
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist
An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence.
"You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story."
When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary.
With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother's heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor.
Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.
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Fame, dependency, and negligence converge in a forensic account of the final hours before one of pop culture’s most shocking deaths.
83 Minutes
Biographies & Memoirs
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Fame, dependency, and negligence converge in a forensic account of the final hours before one of pop culture’s most shocking deaths. 83 Minutes reconstructs the chain of events surrounding Michael Jackson’s collapse, drawing on court records, testimony, and medical detail to examine how those critical moments unfolded. This true crime biography fits readers interested in celebrity tragedy, legal fallout, and the human cost behind public myth.
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.
On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson—the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley—had died. He was only 50 years old when paramedics pronounced him dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. For weeks after his death, speculation and rumor abounded concerning the drugs in Jackson's system and the role Conrad Murray, the singer's personal physician, had played in the his death. In 2011, Murray was tried and convicted of involuntary manslaughter, for which he served two years in prison.
Now, for the first time, readers have access to a comprehensive and truly horrifying account of the crucial moments leading up to Jackson's demise. Drawing on court documents and testimonials, 83 Minutes presents a multi-perspective tracking of every individual involved and the part they played as the tragedy unfolded, examining forensically the mystery of the 83 minutes that elapsed from the moment Dr. Murray suggested he found Jackson not breathing to the moment the singers' lifeless body was wheeled into hospital.
Evenhanded and unbiased, Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne's account is rich with detail, including the specific cocktail of drugs employed in an attempt to keep Jackson alive and the harrowing conditions in which the troubled genius's life ended. Included as well is the story of the legal struggle for control of Jackson's assets that followed his death where Richards and Langthorne report that "the combined earnings of Jay Z, Taylor Swift, and Kanye West since Michael Jackson died come nowhere near the revenues Jackson has earned for his estate after his death."
Written with documentary flair, this powerful and compelling book is already emerging as the definitive account of one of the darkest hours in music history.
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A marriage already falling apart turns into something far more horrific when violence follows a woman even into the hospital room where she should have been safest.
While She Slept
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A marriage already falling apart turns into something far more horrific when violence follows a woman even into the hospital room where she should have been safest. While She Slept reconstructs the murder of Jill Cahill and the legal battle that followed, tracing not only the crime itself but the fierce debate over punishment, justice, and what her family was left to endure.
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The true crime story of a Syracuse man's 1998 murder of his wife in her hospital bed to ensure her silence and the trial that followed.
UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH…
By 1998, Jill and Jeff Cahill's marriage was already over. With a divorce pending, his life was in shambles. Then, a pre-dawn argument between them came to an end when Jeff crushed her skull with an aluminum baseball bat. Fearing her testimony in an assault trial, he slipped unnoticed into her Syracuse hospital room and gave her a dose of potassium cyanide, killing her instantly. It took the jury only five hours to find him guilty.
BUT THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE AGAINST JEFF CAHILL WAS JUST BEGINNING…
Jeff Cahill's trial would provoke one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in recent New York history leaving Jill Cahill's grief-stricken family survivors to wonder...
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEAL HER KILLER'S FATE AS SURELY AS HE HAD SEALED HERS?
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Violence feels even more disturbing when it comes from someone no one believed capable of it.
A Need to Kill
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Violence feels even more disturbing when it comes from someone no one believed capable of it. A Need to Kill examines the murder of a family through the confession, writings, and behavior of a teenage killer whose apparent normalcy only deepens the horror. This is true crime centered on psychology, motive, and aftermath, with a grim focus on the mind behind an unthinkable act.
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Alec Krieder knew his best friend's family never locked their doors—making Kevin Haines and his family the perfect targets for a crime. One night, he waited until they were asleep…then entered the house with a knife. Alec burst into the master bedroom and stabbed Tom and Lisa Haines first. Then he attacked Kevin, who fought for his life. Meanwhile, at the end of the hall, Kevin's sister Maggie awoke to the sound of violence—and was the only one who made it out alive.
Clean-cut and academically gifted, Alec seemed to have no motives, no history of psychosis—and no remorse. Some believed he was a serial killer in the making, a soulless monster plagued by "demons." Now, for the first time, acclaimed author Michael W. Cuneo shares the inside story—with shocking details of Alec's confession to his father, disturbing messages to his classmates, and chilling excerpts from his diaries—and takes you inside the dark, troubled mind of this teenage killer.
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The world looks different when numbers carry color, language arrives in patterns, and memory moves with startling precision.
Born On A Blue Day
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The world looks different when numbers carry color, language arrives in patterns, and memory moves with startling precision. In Born on a Blue Day, Daniel Tammet reflects on life as an autistic savant, tracing how his mind works and how those differences shaped his childhood, relationships, and sense of self. It is an intimate memoir about perception, isolation, and the many ways intelligence can be experienced.
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From autistic savant Daniel Tammet, a remarkable memoir that delves into his fascinating mind and “inspires even as it astonishes” (Entertainment Weekly).
Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man.
Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it’s like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human—our minds.
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