Hardcover Nonfiction

by Katharine Hepburn · Knopf

by La Toya Jackson with Patricia Romanowski · Dutton

Latoya describes her life in the Jackson family which was dominated by her father. Today he is alienated from his children by the hard-driving personality that drove the Jacksons to success. Latoya refuses to be alone in a room with him and Michael has not spoken to him in over two years.

by Robert Fulghum · Villard

by John Feinstein · Villard

"Real life on the professional tennis tours"--Jacket subtitle.

by P. J. O'Rourke · Entrekin/Atlantic Monthly

by Sam Keen · Bantam

Offers a guide for men seeking new personal ideals of strength, potency, and warriorship in their lives.

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

by Curt Gentry · Norton

by Alan M. Dershowitz · Little, Brown

The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., and changes in Eastern Europe.

by Peter Mayle · Knopf

by Erma Bombeck · HarperCollins

The national #1 bestseller from "the wizard of the ordinary moment . . . always fun to read" (The New York Times Book Review). Bombeck is at her hilarious best in this tour de force of laughs, as she offers advice to world weary travelers. "Classic Bombeck".--Kirkus Reviews.

by Geraldo Rivera with Daniel Paisner · Bantam

The explosive, tell-all, New York Times bestselling autobiography from one of America's most controversial broadcast journalists. Geraldo discusses his four marriages, his many affairs, his emotional journey through law school, his bicultural upbringing, and much more in this candid expose. Photographs.

by Diane Wood Middlebrook · Davison/Houghton Mifflin

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to thousands of readers. This exemplary biography, which was nominated for the National Book Award, provoked controversy for its revelations of infidelity and incest and its use of tapes from Sexton's psychiatric sessions. It reconciles the many Anne Sextons: the 1950s housewife; the abused child who became an abusive mother; the seductress; the suicide who carried "kill-me pills" in her handbag the way other women carry lipstick; and the poet who transmuted confession into lasting art.

by Ken Auletta · Random House

What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits? Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street, tells the gripping story of the decline of the networks in this epically scaled work of journalism. He chronicles the takeovers and executive coups that turned ABC and NBC into assets of two mega-corporations and CBS into the fiefdom of one man, Larry Tisch, whose obsession with the bottom line could be both bracing and appalling. Auletta takes us inside the CBS newsroom on the night that Dan Rather went off-camera for six deadly minutes; into the screening rooms where NBC programming wunderkind Brandon Tartikoff watched two of his brightest prospects for new series thud disastrously to earth; and into the boardrooms where the three networks were trying to decide whether television is a public trust or a cash cow. Rich in anecdote and gossip, scalpel-sharp in its perceptions, Three Blind Mice chronicles a revolution in American business and popular culture, one that is changing the world on both sides of the television screen.

by Dave Barry · Crown