• Becoming
  • Author: Michelle Obama
  • Publisher: Crown
  • An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

    In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that...
  • The Point of It All: A Lifetime...
  • Author: Charles Krauthammer
  • Publisher: Crown Forum
  • Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical - including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist...
  • Educated: A Memoir
  • Author: Tara Westover
  • Publisher: Random House
  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

    Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times

    "A coming-of-age memoir...
  • Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst...
  • Author: BILL O'REILLY
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

  • Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series

    As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious...

  • Leadership in Turbulent Times
  • Author: DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.

    Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth...
  • Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
  • Author: Pete Souza
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
  • The new book by Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait
    Shade is a portrait in contrasts, telling the tale of two presidencies through a series of powerful visual juxtapositions--with Pete Souza's unforgettable images of President Obama given new power...
  • Beastie Boys Book
  • Author: Adam Horovitz
  • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
  • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself - by band members AD-ROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more.

    Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely...
  • The Last Liberal: How the Modern...
  • Author: Tucker Carlson
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America's ruling class has failed everyday Americans.

    "You look on in horror, helpless and desperate.
    You have nowhere to go.
    You're trapped on a ship of fools."
    - From...
  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions
  • Author: STEPHEN HAWKING
  • Publisher: Bantam
  • The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant and page-turning posthumous work.

    Why are we here? Will we survive? Will technology save us? How can we thrive?

    Stephen Hawking...
  • Fear: Trump in the White House
  • Author: Bob Woodward
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

    With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major...
  • The Library Book
  • Author: SUSAN ORLEAN
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution...
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon...
  • Author: John Carreyrou
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • "Chilling ... Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men." - The New York Times Book ReviewThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end,...
  • Presidents of War
  • Author: MICHAEL BESCHLOSS
  • Publisher: Crown
  • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives

    Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized...
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  • Author: NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.

    What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist...

  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny
  • Author: ANDREW ROBERTS
  • Publisher: Viking
  • A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.

    When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston Churchill:...