The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman

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When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers
Jan and Antonina Zabinski smuggled Jews through the empty cages, saving hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

The Hoax
by Clifford Irving

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The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax of our time--his "autobiography;"
of Howard Hughes--was published in Great Britain in 1997. In this first U.S. hardcover edition, he tells how the hoax developed.

28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen

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Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book's 28
personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease.

Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat

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From the best-selling author of "The Dew Breaker" comes a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart--her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.

Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
by Jill Fredston

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Jill Fredston stalks avalanches. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately triggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Reaching deep into this trove of personal experience, Fredston captures the overwhelming force of avalanches from a panorama of perspectives: a skier making what may prove his final decision, a victim buried so tightly that he can't move a finger, rescuers racing time and weather, forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger.

A Diplomatic Doctor
by David Holbrook

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As the Air France 737 landed on the worn runway of the Tan Sun Nhut airport in a western suburb of Saigon and approached the rundown terminal building, I knew we were not going to be welcomed with open
arms. As we passed through the arrival room, the customs officers were not disagreeable. I did wonder how they could sit in the heat and humidity in the large dingy room with one antique ceiling fan whining above them, pushing down the hot air. There were no smiles but no delays either.

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage,
Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre

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A gripping story of loyalty, love, and treachery, this history of Eddie Chapman--the most successful British double agent in World
War II--offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, and the thin line between fidelity and betrayal, courage and cowardice. Illustrated.

Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison,
Eric Clapton, and Me
by Pattie Boyd

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An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in "Wonderful Tonight," and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll.

The Man Who Forgot How to Read
by Howard Engel

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One hot mid-summer morning in Toronto, bestselling crime novelist Howard Engel got up to fetch his morning paper and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. "Was this a Serbo-Croatian version of The Globe?" he wondered. Overnight, while he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that while he could still write, he could no longer read. Engel's gentle humour and matter-of- fact tone set the stage for this extraordinary memoir that traces the writer's journey through a life-changing episode.