Anthony Hopkins is currently enjoying the most successful stage of his long and varied acting career. The author has interviewed family, friends, colleagues and critics in putting together a picture of this remarkable actor's life...

At first glance, Angelina Jolie might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, drug use, etc. Yet mysteries remain: What went on in her brief, impulsive marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob...

Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. McCourt recounts his miserable existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable...

In 1988, Kimball's mother attempted suicide on Mother's Day, and this became one of many things Kimball's family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a visual...

The author has written an absorbing account of his time as a political officer in South Arabia with Her Majesty's Overseas Service. He also tells of his family background and of his life in Western Australia after the British...

A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Historian Edmund S. Morgan delivers 17 stirring essays about heroic Americans. John Winthrop's unpopular stand saves Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Penn's principles forge a Philadelphia miracle. George Washington's strategy stuns...

A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted. If he falls, he dies. Honnold recounts the seven most astonishing achievements thus far in his meteoric career...

After waking from a coma, Beverly Thornton's once sweet disposition had been replaced by mood swings and fits of rage, a constant source of frustration for her family. Then one day, a surprise discovery finally helped the Thornton...