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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day.... |
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Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
James Stavridis USN · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in historyIn his acclaimed book Sea Power, James Stavridis reckoned... |
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Edison
Edmund Morris · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only... |
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Do You Mind If I Cancel?:
Gary Janetti · Flatiron Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart." -- Kevin KwanFans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey ... meet your new friend Gary Janetti.Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular... |
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The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less
Tonya Dalton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Productivity expert and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. Tonya Dalton challenges women to rethink "busy" and intentionally live with a mindset of abundanceOverwhelmed. Too many women are swamped and exhausted by all they strive to do, ending most days feeling unsatisfied... |
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The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin
Jan Stocklassa · Amazon Crossing
Pages: 509
Format: Paperback
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The author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them.When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme,... |
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Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Diaz · Algonquin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." - Julia Alvarez Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach,... |
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The Way I Heard It
Mike Rowe · Gallery Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful... |
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