minutes terra westover's account of growing up in the idaho mountains in her introduction to formal education 17 in her book "educated" it's been a bestseller list for over a year. elton john recalls his life and career in his memoir "me". following that is talking to strangers, new yorker staff writer malcolm gladwell's examination on how we misread strangers words and actions. in wrapping up our look at some of the books on the new york times nonfiction bestseller list is sam houston and the alamo ventures. by fox news host brian kill mead the book provides a history of america's 19th-century war with mexico over texas. many of these authors have appeared on tv and you can watch them online on freelibrary.org Ãbbooktv.org. >> i'm delighted to tell you about this book, it is written by a friend and constituent of mine who spent 544 days in iranian prison a story about that is a story about his amazing work as a journalist his relationship with his incredible journalist wife, his reentry into society after this terrible ordeal this is my dogeared copy of prisoner and i hope everyone watching