Just as I am - Prijzen

Fall To Pieces

On the surface Mary Forsberg Weiland had a fairy-tale life. She was a highly paid fashion model married to successful rock star Scott Weiland, the notorious frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet...

In Stitches

For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, a hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon that will make readers stand up and cheer.Tony Yo...

Season to Taste

Written with the good cheer and great charm of Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl, an aspiring chef's moving account of finding her way--in the kitchen and beyond--in the wake of a devastating accident. 32...

The Tracker

Focuses on a twentieth-century frontiersman initiated into the secrets of the trail by an old Apache tracker, recounting his tracking adventures in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, the Grand Tetons, the Dak...

Butler's Lives of the Saints

This February volume is part of a complete revision of Butler's Lives of the Saints . It comes in 12 volumes which correspond to the months of the year. How to live a Christian life of faith is a ques...

Remembering Denny

A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s Remembering Denny is perhaps Calv...

Patriot of Persia Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to flirt wit...

My Lord Salisbury

Nicky Webster's short biography, My Lord Salisbury, explores the life of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury ( 17th April 1791 - 12 April 1868 ), a British Conservative politician. Until now, there has been...

The Sewing Circles of Herat

A British war correspondent chronicles her ten-year visit to Pakistan, during which she witnessed the rise of the Taliban in the last phase of the Soviet War, the brutal victimization of the Afghan pe...

Kosovo

In this first-ever complete history of Kosovo, Noel Malcolm carefully sifts facts from fiction and lays to rest many of the false claims which have bedevilled all discussion of the region. His account...

Pericles

Bravo Two Zero

Not only a breathtaking account of the Special Forces raid on Iraqi scuds during the Gulf War, this is also a story of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humor in the face of overwhelming odds. An...