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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harpercollins
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white... |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book |
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
Mikita Brottman · Harper
Pages: 230
Format: Print book |
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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 816
Format: Print book |
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal
Susan Gubar · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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An important addition to the literature of cancer by an award-winning scholar and memoirist.Elaborating upon her "Living with Cancer" column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical,... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama... |
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Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
Pauls Toutonghi · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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The true story of a lost dog's journey and a family's furious search to find him before it is too late. Saturday, October 10, 1998. Fielding Marshall is hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His beloved dog - a six-year-old golden retriever mix named Gonker - bolts into the woods. Just like... |
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