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Miss Palmer's Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
GILLIAN WAGNER · I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and about to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which were a rite-of-passage for young women... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former... |
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
JENNY UGLOW · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny UglowWe know Edward Lear as a genius of nonsense, full of shocks and surprises, and as a poet of strange loves -- "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," "The Dong with a Luminous Nose."... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi · Penguin Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief... |
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Undercover brother.
Eddie Huang · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 218
Format: Print book
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"Fresh Off the Boat was Huang's story of growing up in his wild family as a first-generation Chinese-American in the comically hostile world of suburban America; a rejection of the typical narrative of assimilation, it was a rallying cry for cultural integrity. But as he entered adulthood... |
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The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution
ROGER STONE · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Theodore White's landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump shocked the world to become president From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son
Penny Junor · Grand Central Publishing; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful... |
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Will & I: A Memoir
Clay Byars · Farrar
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life. Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously... |
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Every Little Step: My Story
Bobby Brown · Dey St.
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic... |
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