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Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero
Rock G Positano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life - candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field.Dr.... |
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Cardiovascular Disorders Sourcebook
Omnigraphics Inc. · Omnigraphics
Pages: 640
Format: Print book
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"Provides basic consumer health information about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of heart and vascular diseases, along with prevention strategies and concerns specific to men, women, children, and minority populations. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and directory... |
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The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Laura Claridge · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became... |
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael Twitty · Amistad
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry - both black and white - through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom.Southern food... |
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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
STEVE RUSHIN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhoodIt's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons... |
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American women
Mary K Trigg · Salem Press
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This new addition to the Great Lives from History series features over 700 essays on women from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries. Many individuals included in this multi-volume set have never been covered in this series before, notable for their work in such fields... |
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Rachel Corbett · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke... |
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The Garden Primer: Second Edition
Barbara Damrosch · Workman
Pages: 820
Format: Print book
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The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods." - Chicago Tribune "Best of the crop." - House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea... |
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The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum
Mark Ryan · Skyhorse
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous... |
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Teresa E Masear · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,... |
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Joshua Foer · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 481
Format: Hardcover
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It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders - the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South... |
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