**A 2019 OWL AWARD LONGLIST WINNER IN THE BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY**For her whole life Alice Johnson had been an upstanding citizen, but in 1992, after an emotionally and financially tumultuous period left her with few options, she turned to crime...

**A 2019 OWL AWARD SHORTLIST WINNER IN THE HEALTH & WELLNESS CATEGORY**From two eminent clinical psychologists, how to access your personal agency and adapt to living the life you choose. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for...

**A 2019 OWL AWARD SHORTLIST WINNER IN THE BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY**Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of...

**A 2018 OWL AWARD SHORTLIST WINNER IN THE WELLNESS CATEGORY**From the powerhouse Mind Body Green calls "the Brené Brown of Wonder" comes a book that will shift the way we relate to ourselves and our emotions, and help us reach our full potential...

**A 2017 OWL AWARD LONGLIST WINNER** A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions Is screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward...

**A 2020 OWL AWARD SHORTLIST WINNER IN THE BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY**Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with...

**2018 OWL AWARD WELLNESS CATEGORY WINNER** An inspirational book about life and its lessons from the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated star of NBC’s This Is Us. When This Is Us debuted in fall 2016, a divided America embraced a show that...

**2019 OWL AWARD BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY WINNER**New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the...

**A 2020 OWL AWARD LONGLIST WINNER IN THE BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY**In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens...

**2019 OWL AWARD GIFT & SPECIAL INTEREST CATEGORY WINNER**Patricia Schultz curates the world. When she published the original 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, she created not only a new kind of travel book but also a new way of thinking about our...

**A 2019 OWL AWARD LONGLIST WINNER IN THE BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR CATEGORY**"Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true...it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times." -- John Grisham How a bomb-making white supremacist,...

**A 2020 OWL AWARD LONGLIST WINNER IN THE GIFT & SPECIAL INTEREST CATEGORY**Veteran style journalist Elizabeth Holmes expands her popular Instagram series, So Many Thoughts, into a nuanced look at the fashion and branding of the four most influential...