The author describes a trip to see his uncle, the soon-to-be-famous artist Andy Warhol, and the fun that he and his family had on the visit.

Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.

"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a friendship with a young girl named Anne Frank. But in 1942, as the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished. Hannah was tormented over Anne's fate, wondering if she had managed to escape danger. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood...

A simple biography, with emphasis on his childhood, of the twenty-sixth president of the United States.

A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is "the most rational thing in the world," how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various...