"From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, and getting away with doing the bare minimum at work"--

An account of the election of 2016 and a study of Trump's rise to the presidency explores the contributions of Steve Bannon and how this man's ethno-nationalism and years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for an unlikely victory.

A divorced investigative reporter for the New York Post shares the story of her remarkable bond with a nonagenarian who over sumptuous home-cooked meals taught her the importance of slowing down, thinking things through and examining the heart of every life challenge.

Documents the lesser-known scandals surrounding former Vice President Spiro Agnew, describing the massive bribery and extortion ring he operated and the efforts of three federal prosecutors to expose his activities before he could ascend to the presidency.

"The story of Trump's last months at the helm of the country, based on [the author's] access to White House aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world"-- Wolff embedded himself in the White House in 2017 and his top-level access gave us a vivid picture of the chaos that had descended on Washington. In 2021 he found the...

Details the extraordinary friendship between an old woman who refused to sell her home to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle and the construction supervisor who, erecting the shopping mall around her little house, helped her through the last days of her life.

Describes the life of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, who is the world's richest women, and the scandal surrounding her and her fortune that involves an accused con man, artist, and photographer, as well as supposed political payoffs and World War II secrets.

Draws on personal writings in an account of Olive MacLeod's search for her missing fiancé, naturalist Boyd Alexander, in 1910 Africa, a quest shaped by dangerous natural elements, a murderous leopard cult and two adorable lion cubs.

The author recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the...