Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews.

Based on a true incident, this is the story of Oscar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved over 1000 Jews from the Nazis. Keneally's account is taken from the testimonies of dozens of Holocaust survivors.

Dennis Rodman, arguably the greatest rebounder in the history of basketball, holds forth on topics such as fame, money, race relations, sex, drugs, Madonna, prison, fatherhood, and basketball.

Mountaineer Jack Furness has found a strange humanlike skull on the forbidden mountain of Machhapuchhare. His scientist girlfriend, Stella, says it's like no other skull of a known species--and that it's from something which has only recently died. Jack and Stella have heard rumors of the yeti inhabiting the cliffs of Machhapuchhare and are hot to go back to the mountain to do more in-depth research. The only problem is money, and after making a deal to let a CIA agent tag along, they get what they need from the US government.

King debunks the myth of the Chapel frescos' creation in this history of the artist's most famous commission. MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING offers a new version of what the Renaissance great would have experienced in the Vatican, providing a day-by-day account of the progress and an accounting those cultural and political forces swirling around the city that affected him.

Unable to write under his own name, writer Thad Beaumont uses the pseudonym George Stark for the violent novels he has been writing. When a gruesome murder occurs and Thad's fingerprints are found at the scene, he must face the possibility that George Stark is a very real, very dangerous, and willful part of his identity.

Christopher Snow suffers from a rare and fatal skin disease that keeps him out of the sun. Christopher's mother and, more recently, his father both died from the same disease. But now his father's corpse is missing, and the nurse who cared for him was found murdered after she voiced some unconventional theories. Christopher enlists his buddy, Bobby Halloway, to help him investigate. Along the way, Christopher and Bobby uncover some sinister secrets and a mysteriously empty military base, and realize that they can count only on each other to survive their adventure.

In this collection of pieces, the celebrated and respected broadcast journalist Ted Koppel writes on the issues and events that were current in 1999--sometimes using them to jog reflections on his life and career.

The perilous, obsessive world of the deep-sea diver is revealed in this true account of a six-year quest begun in 1991 to recover items from and discover the identity of a World War II U-boat sunk off the coast of New Jersey, a place where the history books said no such ship should be. As a team of divers explore the twisted wreck underwater and conduct painstaking research on land, lives and marriages will be sacrificed to get to the bottom of the mystery. SHADOW DIVERS was the nonfiction choice for ABA's 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Award.