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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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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels · Amistad
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As... |
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The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace
Rachel Starnes · Penguin Books
Pages: 245
Format: Print book |
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When she fell in love with her brother's best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern - marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling... |
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson · Putnam
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye · Random House
Pages: 608
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Kate Summerscale · Penguin Press
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover |
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In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention... |
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters... |
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