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All Adults Here: A Novel
Emma Straub - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. From the New York Times bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers.When Astrid Strick... |
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All Things Left Wild: A Novel
James Wade - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Audiobook
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After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb's moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh... |
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Beach Read
Emily Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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"Sparklingly bright." --Sally Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of The Hating GameA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus... |
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Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel
S. A. Cosby - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A husband, a father, a son, a business owner ... And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi."Sensationally good -- new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended." -- Lee ChildBeauregard "Bug"... |
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The Book of Longings: A Novel
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus." So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny in a time... |
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The City We Became: A Novel
N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Hardcover
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Five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil in this stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City?... |
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Clean Hands: A Novel
Patrick Hoffman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on the most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone -- and the secret documents... |
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Conjure Women: A Novel
Afia Atakora - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime,... |
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Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new homeWhile on her normal... |
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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Max Brooks - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast - and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable. As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story... |
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Friends and Strangers: A novel
J. Courtney Sullivan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing... |
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The Girl from Widow Hills
Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest - a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick - comes a riveting new novel of psychological suspense about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet.Everyone... |
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A Good Marriage: A Novel
Kimberly McCreight - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"A Good Marriage is a smart, provocative, insightful page-turner. I couldn't put it down." -- Harlan Coben, author of Run AwayBig Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman's... |
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The Guest List: A Novel
Lucy Foley - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. Its a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer... |
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Hamnet: A novel
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling departure: A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am, about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great... |
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The Henna Artist
Joshi, Alka - MIRA
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Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist--and confidante--most in demand to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets... |
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The Herd: A Novel
Andrea Bartz - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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When an exclusive New York women's workspace is rocked by the mysterious disappearance of its enigmatic founder, two sisters must uncover the haunting truth before they lose their friendships, their careers--maybe even their lives.The name of the elite, women-only coworking space stretches... |
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Home Before Dark: A Novel
Riley Sager - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father's bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound - and dangerous - secrets hidden within... |
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If It Bleeds
Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas - Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds - each pulling readers into... |
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Interlibrary Loan
Gene Wolfe - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene WolfeHundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.And there... |
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The Knockout Queen: A novel
Rufi Thorpe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbsBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum... |
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Lake Life: A Novel
David James Poissant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of the acclaimed story collection The Heaven of Animals, called "a wise debut ... beautiful [stories] with a rogue touch" (The New York Times Book Review) , comes a sweeping, domestic novel about a family that reunites at their North Carolina lake... |
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The Lightness
Emily Temple - William Morrow
Format: Book
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A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, and the female body that shimmers with rage, wit, and fierce longing.
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Love: A Novel
Roddy Doyle - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaDavy and Joe were drinking pals back in their Dublin youth. Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore--maybe... |
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico - and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noem. You have to save me. After... |
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The Motion of the Body Through Space: A Novel
Lionel Shriver - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise - which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life - an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.After... |
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The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood... |
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Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel
Anne Tyler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault... |
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Sad Janet: A Novel
Lucie Britsch - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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For as long as I can remember feeling things, I've felt sadness. Now, for example, I feel sad that we have no money. Also a little mad that a bunch of idiots seem to have it all. But sad, mostly, because I think that's just the way things are. It's an all-encompassing feeling,... |
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Sex and Vanity
Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Book
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The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling... |
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice... |
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
David Mitchell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band youve never heard of. Emerging from Londons psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho,... |
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together... |
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Kate Winkler Dawson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled... |
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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went... |
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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people dont talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.
Now two friends,... |
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Muhammad H. Zaman - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first... |
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Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir
Gail Caldwell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Let's Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women's movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the #MeToo era. In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west... |
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Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
Marsha M. Linehan - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.Growing up in the early 1960s, Marsha Linehan was a popular teenager from a big, Catholic... |
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Empty: A Memoir
Susan Burton - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still."A smart, brave gift to the world. Bravo!" - Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir and The Liar's ClubFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton... |
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Empty: A Memoir
Susan Burton - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still."A smart, brave gift to the world. Bravo!" - Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir and The Liar's ClubFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton... |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth "A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world--the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom." - Robert... |
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Filthy Beasts: A Memoir
Kirkland Hamill - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family's deep flaws and his own long-buried truths. "Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill... |
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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Alastair Gee - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century.On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire laid waste to almost the entire town of Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 people. At least 85 died, images of the fire transfixed viewers across the world, and the resulting... |
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The Fixed Stars
Molly Wizenberg - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly... |
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Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
Anderson, Jake - CITADEL PR
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A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon--and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Twenty-one-year-old... |
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Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
R. Eric Thomas - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way."Pop culture-obsessed, Sedaris-level... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Oprahs Book Club pickNumber one New York Times best sellerOne of the New York Times Top 10 Books of the YearOne of the Wall Street Journal Top 10 Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Slate, Smithsonian, The New York Post,... |
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The Hilarious World of Depression
John Moe - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are so sure that we are alone in our struggles. You should read it." -- Jenny Lawson"A funny, honest book about depression,... |
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Hollywood Park: A Memoir
Mikel Jollett - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Mikel Jollett, the front man of indie band Airborne Toxic Event, chronicles his tumultuous life. Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction and emotional abuse. What comes through the pages is a story... |
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the "folk hero of Davos" (Vox) , Fox News antagonist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, a revolutionary argument that our innate goodness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in humanity's successIf there is one belief that has united... |
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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir
Val Kilmer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade... |
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Judy Batalion - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters -- a group of unknown heroes whose... |
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
Loretta Lynn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Nashville version of Just Kids or Girls Like Us,ME & PATSY shares the never-before-told story of the remarkable relationship between legendary country queen Patsy Cline and country music icon Loretta Lynn.Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters... |
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world... |
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More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood
Natasha Gregson Wagner - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The heartbreaking, never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood's glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner.More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming-of-age by a daughter of Hollywood royalty. Natasha Gregson... |
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My Life as a Villainess
Laura Lippman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice... |
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Navigate Your Stars
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the power of perseverance from the beloved, New York Times bestselling, and two-time National Book Award-winning Jesmyn Ward.For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered... |
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Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays
Alexandra Petri - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency.In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons... |
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir
Dr. François S. Clemmons - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of Franois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality,... |
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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family
Bettye Kearse - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse - a descendant of a slave named Coreen and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison - finally shares her family story, exploring legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth. For thousands of years, West African... |
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The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution
Stephen Heyman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How an Ohio farm boy turned literary celebrity inspired America's organic and sustainable food movement.Louis Bromfield first rose to fame in the 1920s as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist with a green thumb. He built a beautiful garden outside Paris where he threw legendary parties... |
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
Rebecca Solnit - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere... |
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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Eliese Colette Goldbach - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland.Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill...To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese... |
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The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison
Jason Hardy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague... |
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Phuc Tran - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America... |
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Sarah Stewart Johnson - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty.... |
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Stray: A Memoir
Stephanie Danler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration... |
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Ian W. Toll - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas) .Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest... |
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Anna Wiener - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come." -- Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon... |
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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
Ada Calhoun - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?Calhoun decided to find... |
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A Vintage Paperback Original.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left... |
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Sierra Crane Murdoch - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged... |
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Alexis Coe - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look... |
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