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All over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg · Vintage
Pages: 329
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became... |
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin M Hazzard · Scribner
Pages: 261
Format: Print book
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A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from... |
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Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon
Dorothea Salo · Backbeat Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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(Book) . Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,... |
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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image.Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage... |
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On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Greg O'Brien · Codfish Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease.Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.—and... |
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
Patricia Gucci · Crown Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Book
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The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could... |
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What Is Your Calling?: A Memoir
Reverend Philip R. Newell Jr. · Balboa Press
Pages: 118
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting memoir, What Is Your Calling?, the author describes his journey from a picture-book childhood in suburban Detroit to early family tragedy and dislocation. This created an inner quest for meaning that over time convinced him that a fulfilling life demands commitment to equality... |
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It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing
Clark Davis · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was the land and language of his native... |
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Why Bob Dylan Matters
Richard F. Thomas · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Art Garfunkel · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel--a memoir (of sorts) : artful, moving, lyrical; the making of a musician; the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and collaboration that became one of the most successful singing duos of their time.... |
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