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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 448
Format: Book
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Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants-- four-legged and otherwise-- with the world's best-loved animal doctor.
For over 25 years-- since All Creatures Great and Small was first published--... |
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Piper Kerman - Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 327
Format: Paperback
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older... |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's... |
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.
What... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics,... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language... |
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Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly
Anthony Bourdain - Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback
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A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. |
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