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Moranifesto
Caitlin Moran · Harper Perennial
Pages: 329
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces... |
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Pages: 341
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer than anyone on the planet... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
Catherine Burns · Crown
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stagesCarefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All These... |
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Word detective : searching for the meaning of it all at the oxford english dictionary
John Simpson · Basic Books
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions - and a great many more - can be found in the pages of the Oxford English... |
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
Chesley B Sullenberger · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks - the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books
Pages: 263
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured... |
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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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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C White · Random House
Pages: 826
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals - and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American... |
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The Britannica Guide to 100 Influential Americans
Encyclopedia Britannica · Running Press
Pages: 483
Format: Book
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Who are the most influential Americans in history? Do they include generals or politicians? Philosophers or filmmakers? Was George Washington more important than Benjamin Franklin? The Britannica Guide to 100 Influential Americans will be ranked and selected by experts, and is bound to gain... |
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