Hardcover Nonfiction

by Bill Cosby · Dolphin/Doubleday

Looks at the shifting ways in which the world is viewed at different stages of life--from childhood to middle age

by Erma Bombeck · McGraw-Hill

by Marlo Thomas with Christopher Cerf and Letty Cottin Pogrebin · Bantam

Songs and stories about different types of families and family relationships.

by · Random House

A biography of the long-time Congressman from Massachusetts, Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, discussing not only his personal and political life, but also the important events in which he played a part.

by Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass · Viking Press

by Leo Buscaglia · Slack

This holiday classic contains personal stories based on Christmas memories. Five of the stories appeared originally in Woman's Day magazine, which initiated a tradition of printing an annual Buscaglia Christmas story during most of the 1980s.

by · Collins

by Ravi Batra · Simon & Schuster

Batra predicts that we are moving toward the greatest world-wide depression in history--and 1987's Black Monday may have been just the beginning. Batra's advice is easily accessible to all. He advises when to get out of the stock market, cautions against real estate investments, and helps readers plan the right moves to ensure a secure future.

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

by Cleveland Amory · Little, Brown

by Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold · Madison Press/ Warner

This is the account of the discovery of the site of the Titanic and is a testament to state-of-the-art undersea technology.

by · Collins

The author, known for his landmark work in American journalism and for his other books, The Greatest Generation, and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America's greatness. "What happened to the America I thought I knew?" he writes. "Have we simply wandered off course, but only temporarily? Or have we allowed ourselves to be so divided that we are easy prey for hijackers who could steer us onto a path to a crash landing? I do have some thoughts, original and inspired by others, for our journey into the heart of a new century." Rooted in the values, lessons, and verities of generations past and of his South Dakota upbringing, he weaves together stories of Americans who are making a difference and personal stories from his own family history, to engage us in a conversation about our country and to offer ideas for how we can revitalize the promise of the American Dream. Inviting us to foster a rebirth of family, community, and civic engagement as profound as the one that won World War II, built our postwar prosperity, and ushered in the Civil Rights era, he traces the changes in modern life, in values, education, public service, housing, the Internet, and more, that have transformed our society in the decades since the age of thrift in which he was raised. Offering ideas from Americans who are change agents in their communities, he gives us a book that is a vision of hopefulness in an age of diminished expectations.

by Clifton Daniel · Chronicle Publications

by Bernie S. Siegel · Harper & Row

Surgeon Bernie S. Siegel gives an inspirational, first-hand account of how patients can participate in their own recovery. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.

by Tom Peters · Knopf

The national bestseller that offers prescriptions for an economic world turned upside down. A New York Times bestseller for eleven months.