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Son of a Midnight Land
ATZ KILCHER · Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful new memoir by Atz Kilcher about growing up with a hard father in a hard land. Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomplish... |
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Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here
Angela Palm · Graywolf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising... |
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
Doug J Swanson · Viking
Pages: 355
Format: Book
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The astonishing story of Benny Binion - a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's... |
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Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
Graham Holliday · Anthony Bourdain/Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasnt keen on travel. But in his early twenties,... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
KAPKA KASSABOVA · Graywolf Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." -- Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border... |
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I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster · NAL
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she's managed to document her (and her generation's) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have... |
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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Once A Gun Runner: The Efraim Diveroli Memoir
Efraim Diveroli · A Ross Reback Production / Incarcerated Entertainment LLC
Pages: 257
Format: Print book
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Efraim Diveroli always knew what he wanted to be when he grew up - an international arms dealer. From the time he was a young Jewish Orthodox kid growing up in Miami Beach, he loved guns. Dropping out of high school in the 9th grade and shipped off to Los Angeles, he started working as a stock... |
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Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light... |
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking... |
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic... |
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Classic Queen
Mick Rock · Overlook Omnibus
Pages: 191
Format: Print book
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The definitive collection of Mick Rock's photographs -- both intimate and iconic -- portraying one of the world's greatest rock bands at the zenith of their fameThe early 1970s were a time of experimentation and excess, glitter and glam. Mick Rock was fast establishing his reputation... |
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