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Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car
Randy Denmon · W W Norton
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure - driving a Tesla through Central America.Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt... |
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Lucky Dogs: From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
Jerry E. Strahan · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need... |
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So, Anyway...
John Cleese · Crown Archetype
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway ... , Cleese takes... |
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My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
AMY SILVERSTEIN · Harper Wave
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first... |
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The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra
Eliot Weisman · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Henry Bushkin's Johnny Carson comes THE WAY IT WAS: My Life with Frank Sinatra, a candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life, told by his long-time manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.Eliot Weisman worked with Frank Sinatra... |
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The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
Melissa Fay Greene · Ecco Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings,... |
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
Dan Bischoff · St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best--and most defining--actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird · Random House
Pages: 696
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Gary Krist · Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans'... |
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With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn
Brian Welch · Nelson Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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He left KoRn to help himself. He went back to help others. And along the way, he nearly lost everything. A life-changing spiritual awakening freed Brian "Head" Welch from a stranglehold of drugs and alcohol and prompted him to leave the highly successful nu-metal band KoRn in 2005.... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn · Penguin Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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