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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Philip Shenon · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th centurys most controversial murder investigationThe questions have haunted our nation for half a century Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy?... |
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Stronger
Jeff Bauman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs,... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they... |
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Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS
Ken Sharp · It Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the first time, the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite," a song that... |
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMany are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henrys mother and Elizabeths grandmother,... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water... |
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E. E. Cummings: A Life
Susan Cheever · Pantheon Books
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of American Bloomsbury, Louisa May Alcott, and Home Before Dark, a major reassessment of the life and work of the novelist, painter, and playwright considered to be one of America's preeminent twentieth-century poets. At the time of his death in 1962, at age sixty-eight,... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge UniversityBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times "A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent... |
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Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War
Alona Frankel · Indiana University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money. Isolated from her parents... |
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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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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 278
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee,... |
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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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Food and the City: New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
Ina Yalof · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of New York City's dynamic food culture, as told through the voices of the chefs, line cooks, restaurateurs, waiters, and street vendors who have made this industry their lives. In Food and the City, Ina Yalof takes us on an insider's journey into... |
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