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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed, award-winning historian - "America's new past master" (Chicago Tribune) - examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
Kassi Underwood · HarperOne
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, told with fierce honesty and surprising humor, a young woman goes on a journey of healing after abortion - a road trip across the United States with a diverse crew of spiritual teachers and a caravan of new friends.Nineteen years old, a thousand miles from her Kentucky... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird · Random House
Pages: 696
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT"†OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT"‡ THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"§January... |
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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs · Graywolf Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 395
Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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The Temporary Bride A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
Jennifer Klinec · Twelve
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel... |
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Kevin T Dann · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic,... |
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.  On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime... |
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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
Jonathan Cott · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer... |
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Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
Rifqa Bary · WaterBrook Press
Format: Hardcover
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"After four years of hiding my faith from my family, I knew that it was time. I wrote with shaky hands, 'Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I refuse to deny him ... .' There was no turning back now. I had to get out of that house if I wanted to live. Was this worth risking... |
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Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
Sean Hepburn Ferrer · Atria Books
Pages: 230
Format: Print book
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To the world, Audrey Hepburn was the epitome of elegance and grace. With a fragile radiance and natural charm, she restyled the image of the Hollywood glamour girl, becoming an icon of dignity, charity, and goodness. But to her son, she was much more, a woman who invested her heart and soul... |
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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Sasha Martin · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 352
Format: Book
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Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other. Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook - and eat - a meal from every country in the world.... |
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