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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard... |
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Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
Mick Wall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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There's a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as "the nicest man in rock." A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies.... |
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Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
Barbara Leaming · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically... |
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Ryan H. Walsh · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations... |
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If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
Zach Anner · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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"Hilarious and inspiring, Anner has made a life filled with fans, love, and Internet fame -- reminding us that disability is no match for dreams." -- People (Book of the Week) "Zach Anner is way more than an inspirational figure for anyone who has ever felt impossibly... |
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon Meacham · Random House, 2015.
Pages: 836
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first... |
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams · Hanover Square
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold · Crown
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's... |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson · Viking
Pages: 349
Format: Hardcover
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In 1993, following a failed attempt to ascend K2, Greg Mortenson was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers in Pakistan and promised to build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time - Mortenson's... |
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American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Taya Kyle · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legendIn early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband... |
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Unti Bruce Dickinson
BRUCE DICKINSON · Dey Street Books
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalist of Iron Maiden, one of the most successful, influential and enduring rock bands ever.Pioneers of Britain's nascent Rock & Metal scene back in the late 1970s, Iron Maiden smashed its way to the top, thanks in no small... |
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Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
Christopher Goffard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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A collection of newspaper stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard - including "Dirty John," the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.Since its release in fall 2017, the "Dirty... |
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Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
JOELY FISHER · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero,... |
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Men in Green
Michael Bamberger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller "Maybe the best golf book I've ever read. " --Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal "Surprisingly candid... Bamberger doesn't flinch at portraying the Tour's earthier aspects... But the book is overwhelmingly a love song. " --John Paul... |
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