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Reckless Endangerment is the “must-read” book on the financial meltdown, the first to examine the causes and players in depth, and to assign blame for the wreckage. A Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times business reporter, called Gretchen Morgenson "the most important financial journalist of her generation." Morgenson continues to cover every angle of this story with impeccable sources and deep knowledge of the issues. Hers is a distinctly long-term perspective on the current financial mess. Character-driven as well as rich in analysis, Reckless Endangerment is full of previously unreported details about former Fannie Mae CEO James Johnson, Congressman Barney Frank, former Federal Reserve Board governor Roger Ferguson—as well as details about Goldman Sachs, Fremont Investment & Loan (a profligate lender), the FDIC, HUD, the Fed, and members of Congress.

Gretchen Morgenson is a business reporter and writes the Fair Game column in the Sunday business section of The New York Times, where she also serves as assistant business and financial editor. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street. Prior to joining the Times in 1998, she worked as a broker at Dean Witter in the 1980s and as a reporter at Forbes, Worth, and Money magazines. She lives with her husband and son in New York City.

Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.

"Most readers know Ann Packer from her best-selling debut novel. Swim Back to Me is even better, richer, more insightful. Packer can break your heart-and she can mend it, too. Easing readers in with recognizable characters facing familiar situations . . . she then injects a detail that makes us see the situations in a whole new light. . . . This fine work [is] surprising and absolutely true."
-Karen Holt, O, The Oprah Magazine

John Feinstein has interviewed some of the most enduring figures in sports--from hallowed coaches such as Bob Knight, Jim Valvano, Mike Krzyzewski, and Dean Smith to beloved athletes including Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, and John McEnroe. He goes behind the scenes of his reporting from The Final Four, Wimbledon, The US Open, the Army/Navy game, the Olympics, and more.

Feinstein crafts a narrative of the most revealing encounters he's had. The author has interviewed some of the most enduring figures in sports and goes behind the scenes of his reporting, opening up sport's most private, closed-door places and sharing exclusive stories.

When Stephanie Nielson began writing about her life in 2005, in what soon became a very popular blog (nieniedialogues.com) she was in love with her husband and enjoying raising their four young children. However, everything changed in an instant on a sunny day in August 2008 when Stephanie and her husband were in a horrific plane crash. Stephanie had burned 80% of her body and was on the brink of death. She would remain in a coma for four months.

Stephanie shares the full, extraordinary story of her unlikely survival and the love that helped her along the way – from a gripping account of the crash to all that followed in its wake. With her trademark wit and candor, Stephanie recounts her life before the crash, her painful first few days after awakening, her fight to recovery and her journey to return to her family she so dearly loves. She also reflects back on life before the crash and the origins of her strength, faith and family ties, which became the foundation for her survival.