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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir
Jean Guerrero · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory - between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood,... |
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
WILLIAM J COOPER · Liveright
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father?Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) , has never basked in the historical spotlight.... |
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
GAIL LUKASIK · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow... |
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Call Me American: A Memoir
Abdi Nor Iftin · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way of the movies; years later, through a miraculous green card.Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop artists like... |
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Killing It: An Education
Camas Davis · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A wayward young woman abandons her magazine career to learn the old ways of butchery and discover what it means to take life into her own handsCamas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon... |
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Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
Peter Vronsky · Berkley
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers."... |
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A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
GINGER LERNER-WREN · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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The story of America's first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren--from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nationAs a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series... |
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