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Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can
Michael Booth · Natl Book Network
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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Castle Connolly America's Top Doctors, 14th Edition
John J Connolly · Castle Connolly Medical Ltd; 14th edition
Format: Print book
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America's Top Doctors® is the national guide that identifies more than 6,700 top specialists throughout the U.S. in more than 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,700 diseases and medical conditions. These outstanding doctors represent... |
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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
Harold Schechter · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Edgar Award Nominee Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: "SKYSCRAPER SLAYER," "BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB" read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world - and a roadmap for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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Ghost songs : a memoir
Regina McBride · Tin House Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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A searingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir about a girl who begins to see her parents' ghosts after their tragic deaths.Eighteen-year-old Regina McBride is haunted by the ghosts of her parents. Her father visits her -- he is desperate, but she doesn't know how to help him. Her mother is a quiet... |
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To America with Love
A.A. Gill · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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IN TO AMERICA WITH LOVE, celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist A. A. Gill traverses the Atlantic to become the freshest chronicler of American identity in recent memory. With a fiery temper, a sharp-tongued wit, and an insatiable curiosity to figure out what makes... |
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Greg King · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished... |
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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Tom Kizzia · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy... |
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