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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Holly FitzGerald · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride - the wildest - down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles... |
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Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook
Alice Waters · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors... |
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Patrick French · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 554
Format: Print book
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Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial... |
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The Kardashians: An American Drama
JERRY OPPENHEIMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich comes a blockbuster unauthorized biography of one of the most famous and ubiquitous family dynasties in contemporary culture: The Kardashians. Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hard core fans have... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved... |
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The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up
Michael J Meyer · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries,... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in AmericaIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing... |
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief. The United... |
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John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
Alan Brinkley · Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nations chief executive. He was forty-three... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Jace Clayton · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In 2001, Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix called Gold Teeth Thiefand put it online to share with his friends. Within months, the mix became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to a sprawling, multi-tiered nightclub in Zagreb,... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating... |
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