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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke · Red Hen Press
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military academy. Later -- and still... |
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Francesca Lia Block · Seal Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing A cinematic exploration of the writing life by Francesca Lia Block, the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series of magical-realism novels, The Thorn Necklace offers visceral... |
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel
Robert F Kennedy · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,... |
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
AMANDA STERN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times Book Review... |
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Apprehensions & Convictions: Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop
Mark Johnson · Quill Driver Books
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
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What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn't just have to adjust... |
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Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
Jonathan Schneer · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great... |
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Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child's life
Cathy Glass · Harper Element
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.... |
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
Heidi Julavits · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi JulavitsLike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer)... |
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
LELAND MELVIN · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only... |
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Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
SARA ZASKE · Picador
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Bringing Up Bebe and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a clarion call and practical guide for a return to rational parenting, from an American woman who learned how to raise strong, self-reliant children by following the common sense approach of German parenting. When... |
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The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
ROBERT HUDSON · Eerdmans
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger... |
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
CHRISTOPHER BONANOS · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive biography of Weegee the Famous -- photographer, psychic, fiend -- from the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself "Weegee," claiming that he functioned... |
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