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A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa
Tony Bartelme · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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An inspiring story of doctors who changed the health care of an African nationBy 2006, Dilan Ellegala, an accomplished neurosurgeon, had reached the highest rungs of the American medical establishment. But he was on the verge of burning out. In search of personal restoration, he took a sabbatical... |
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Grace Notes: My Recollections
Katey Sagal · Gallery Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
Gripping, singular, and gorgeously reflective, Grace Notes is a memoir told in essays by beloved actress, Hollywood veteran, and singer/songwriter Katey Sagal - perfect for fans of Mary Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You and Patti Smith's M Train.
Popular and award-winning... |
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir
Eve O Schaub · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary... |
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Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, and Feminism
Camille Paglia · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism - from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, she established... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book |
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders,... |
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Jancee Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover |
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A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers... |
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National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
Joel Sartore · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals - especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor,... |
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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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... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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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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Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.
Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane,... |
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel · Knopf
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover |
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Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality - not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.... |
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Gratitude
Oliver Sacks · Alfred A. Knopf ; Toronto
Pages: 45
Format: Print book |
A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life.
In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, and he shared this news in a New York Times essay that inspired readers all over the world: "I cannot pretend I am without fear.... |
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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide
Dave Thompson · Krause Publications
Pages: 800
Format: Print book |
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For the record From Abba to ZZ Top, Goldmine Record Album Price Guide, 8th edition, provides more than 100, 000 listings, detailed descriptions and values to American-released vinyl albums. This completely vetted and massive guide features: |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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Being Elvis: A Lonely Life
Ray Connolly · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture. Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses... |
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