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The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography
Michael Shnayerson · Twelve
Format: Hardcover |
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Examines the life and career of the New York attorney general and governor.He is tactically brilliant, charismatic, yet also dark, brooding, and vindictive. He is an old-school boss who rules by fear, even as he puts himself forward as the new, 21st-century Democrat. In many ways his story... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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Tommy's War: The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Richard van Emden · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Shortly after images of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 found their way into national newspapers in Britain, the military authorities banned the private use of cameras on the Western Front. A considerable number of soldiers continued to use them illicitly to record life and death in the frontline... |
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Harry Carey Jr. · Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition |
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The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: "authoritative and enormously engaging ... Eyman takes you through Wayne's life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable way" (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review)... |
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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Sasha Martin · National Geographic |
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It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came... |
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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic installment in the lives of the Kennedys - including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master... |
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John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation
Harlow Giles Unger · Da Capo Press
Format: Kindle Edition |
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A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young republic's great chief justice, who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation |
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Dead of Night
Gary C. King · Pinnacle; Reprint edition
Format: Book |
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Details of the abduction and murder of a Santa Barbara City College student, Brianna Denison home on winter break in Reno, Nevada by serial rapist, James Biela. |
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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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Michael Jordan: The Life
Roland Lazenby · Little, Brown and Company; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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"It's not every day that I'm blown away by a book about a sports figure. But MICHAEL JORDAN: THE LIFE, by Roland Lazenby, ranks up there with the very best: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger, and Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer. The depth... |
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