These letters, from several decades, show the private side of a public man, and testify to the enduring love of Ronald Reagan for his beloved wife Nancy.

Following her mother's funeral, Jenny Cain investigates her family's past. Refused a leave of absence from her foundation, she resigns and is almost killed in what appears to be a suicide attempt.

French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) gave up the craft of poetry when he was 21, and became a salesman who traveled in Africa and the Middle East. This collection of his letters dates mostly from his traveling days, chronicling his profits and losses.

This is a collection of five short stories.

Jonathan Blashette has three legs, and he finds work as a freak in a traveling circus--a life he is not crazy about. His salvation comes when he invents a deodorant and J. P. Morgan puts money behind it. Told entirely in footnotes, Blashette's story travels through nearly a century of American life, ending in the 1960s.

This chronicle of the aftermath of a 1913 shipwreck in Siberia tells of the struggle of 24 men, women, and children to survive in open nature and the intense rivalries that developed among them. Some of those marooned were eventually rescued after the captain left the camp and trekked across the wilderness for help.

This illustrated history of the Civil War is made up of the graphic work--drawings, maps, illustrations, etc.--of a Union soldier who was captured and sent to Andersonville, the infamous Confederate prison where thousands died. Sneden survived the war and wrote a memoir, THE EYE OF THE STORM.