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Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Doris Payne · Amistad
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief -- a woman who defied society's prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from... |
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Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers
Shea Tuttle · Eerdmans
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to the spiritual neighborhood of Fred Rogers"I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are."Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn't simply sentimental: it came directly... |
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Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells As Prophet for Our Time
Catherine Meeks · Church Pub Inc
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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"In Passionate for Justice, we find a compass that points us to the future, where we can each give voice and action to justice, equity, and life-giving community. Ida Wells would have had it no other way." --From the foreword by Stacey Abrams, 2018 Democratic Nominee for Governor... |
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Paul Hendrickson · Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank... |
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace... |
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,... |
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