Between Two Worlds
by Zainab Salbi | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers | 
Mobituaries
by Mo Rocca | 
Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi | 
The Greatest Game Ever Played
by Mark Frost | 
There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir | 
The Meaning of Everything
by Simon Winchester | 
Caesar
by Adrian Goldsworthy | 
Walt Disney
by B. G. Thomas | 
Working
by Studs Terkel | 
Will in the World
by Stephen Greenblatt | 
To the Golden Shore
by Courtney Anderson | 
Yeager
by Chuck Yeager | 
You Can't Win
by Jack Black | 
Joseph Fouche
by Stefan Zweig |
Jane Austen
by Claire Tomalin |
A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein's regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other nameless, faceless women from all walks of life. To ease their suffering, these "shadow women" passed each day by sharing their life stories. Now, through Jean Sasson, Mayada is finally able to tell her story--and theirs--to the world.