Savage, acclaimed historian of the English punk movement ("England's Dreaming"), traces the roots of the teenager as an icon. Delving into film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century through 1945. [History] more...

Isaacson, author of acclaimed biography "Benjamin Franklin," brings us the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his personal letters and papers have become available. [Biographies & Memoirs, History] more...

Whitbread-winner Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe. [] more...

Hermione Lee, the author of "Virginia Woolf", brings us the biography of Edith Warton by interweaving the classic American fiction writer's life with the evolution of her writing. [Biographies & Memoirs] more...

What if, as President Roosevelt proposed in 1939, a temporary settlement had been established in Alaska for Jews after World War II? Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon explores this premise as the context for a noir murder mystery focusing on washed up Detective Meyer Landsman and his attempt to unravel the killing of a local heroin-addicted chess fanatic. [Mystery & Thrillers] more...

Brogan illuminates the life of Alexis de Toqueville, the French writer whose exploration of liberty and democracy in "Democracy in America" remains the premiere analysis of the early American political system and its guiding political philosophies. [Biographies & Memoirs, History] more...

Ishmael Beah tells the story of how, as a boy, he fled attacking rebels in his violent homeland of Sierra Leone, and by the age of thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army and became a child soldier, capable of terrible acts. [Biographies & Memoirs] more...

This prequel to the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was abandoned by the author before his death, with the materials eventually culled together into a novel by his son Christopher Tolkien after a 30-year effort. Parts of this story were originally published as the notoriously difficult read "The Silmarillion." [Science Fiction & Fantasy] more...

A.M. Homes explores through this memoir what it means to her to be adopted. The Mistress's Daughter, an expansion of her 2004 personal essay in "The New Yorker", is also the story of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. [Biographies & Memoirs] more...

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, Dr. Groopman breaks down the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. He explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can -- with our help -- avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. [Health & Medicine] more...