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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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Spitting Out the Bones: A Zen Master's 45 Year Journey
Dennis Genpo Merzel · Big Mind Publishing
Pages: 205
Format: Print book
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'You have to swallow the whole fish,' Zen Master Taizan Maezumi told his students, 'and then spit out the bones.' First absorb the tradition, endure the hardships of Zen training, then you can spend the rest of your life separating the real treasure from the baggage it came... |
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Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Raymond W Kelly · Hachette Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES BONUS Q&A WITH RAY KELLY "Powerful ... the longest-serving police commissioner in New York City's history sketches a remarkable arc. This is the inspirational story of a milkman's son who worked as an elevator... |
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America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Grant Wacker · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Grahams resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through Gods grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance... |
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In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
Brittney Griner · It Books, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her strength to overcome bullies and to embrace... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.... |
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The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From the author of "In the Country of Men, "a" "Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father s disappearance. When Hisham... |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,... |
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The White Sniper: Simo Häyhä
Tapio A M Saarelainen · Casemate Publishers
Pages: 190
Format: eBook
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Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world and paved the way for them... |
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The Life of a Union Army Sharpshooter: The Diaries and Letters of John T. Farnham
William George Andrews · Fonthill Media
Pages: 335
Format: Print book
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John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, furloughs,... |
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Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France
Craig Carlson · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Paris was practically perfect...Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business.... |
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Sunshine State: Essays
Sarah Gerard · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida's gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival - physical, emotional, environmental - through a collection of essays exploring intimacy,... |
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