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"From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee--known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue--comes an utterly winning memoir about a twenty something woman's search for true love in New York City and how the four-legged matches that she fostered helped her find her two-legged match. A Jersey girl by birth, Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance, ditching her college upstate and moving...

Ke Huy Quan's Hollywood adventure began when he was twelve years old, a mere five years after his family escaped Communist Northern Vietnam and settled down to a relatively peaceful life in L.A.'s Chinatown. After attending an open call audition on a whim, he was unexpectedly swept up in the wild world of filmmaking: learning to swim from Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, receiving trucks full of toys from Steven Spielberg...

A whip-smart, darkly funny, and timely memoir of one woman's twelve years inside Google and her transformation from insider to dissenter as the company's ideals begin to unravel from within. When Claire Stapleton joined Google in 2007, it felt like stepping into a worldview as much as a job. The company offered not just a career, but a moral project. In the heady early years of Big Tech and when Google's in-house slogan was "Don't be evil", it was...

Teaching today can feel like an impossible job--too many students, too many demands, and never enough time or support. And yet, every day, educators keep showing up. Will This Be On the Quiz? is a candid, compassionate call to those who feel overwhelmed but refuse to give up, offering both understanding and hope in the midst of uncertainty. Blending humor, insight, and honest storytelling, this reflective collection draws on author Andrew Powell's...

"From the author of Good Morning America pick, Save What's Left, comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress who has owed her publisher a memoir for thirty-eight years - this memoir within the novel outlines the life that led to that delay. Maria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night TV darling, is having a moment. She has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments,...

In this deeply personal narrative, Timothy J. Hillegonds recounts an eight-year odyssey that began with an unexpected offer from Sean Dempsey, a towering former NFL player turned entrepreneur, whose volatile mentorship reshaped the trajectory of his life. Part workplace memoir and part meditation on human complexity, And You Will Call It Fate explores the cost of personal growth and the ambiguous debts we owe to those who shape us, for better or worse....

"[A]n intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has experienced -- as a child, a young man, a husband, a father, and a leader. Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance's pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him...

Frank Miller came to New York City in the winter of 1976. "I was a cold-bellied youngster from cold Vermont, a lot bigger in ambition than prospects." So begins a guide to creative success by the most influential American cartoonist and writer of our time, whose bestselling work has helped to shape popular culture in comics and film for decades. Frank Miller shares his life and, through it, his artistic process. Miller's artistic influence is evident...

Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what's on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware. Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable, kicking off a lifelong love affair with language--one that would, eventually, maybe inevitably, lead him to become a writer. In Unsayable , Cunningham's...

From the voice behind Ren & Stimpy, Doug, Bugs Bunny, nearly half the main Futurama characters, and much more, a revealing memoir of life before--and in front of--the mic. Billy West is one the most accomplished and beloved voice actors alive today. He's brought to life original animated characters like Stimpy from Ren & Stimpy, Doug Funnie, and Philip J. Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and Professor Farnsworth (and more) on Futurama. And he's...