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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother,... |
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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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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser · Harperwave
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history:... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page... |
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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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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz
FRED HERSCH · Crown Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. His prodigious talent as a sideman - a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson - blosÂsomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that... |
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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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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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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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
David Kaufman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make... |
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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Jed Perl · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved... |
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