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My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell · Collectors Library
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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Apart from naturalist Gerald Durrell (the youngest) and Larry (Lawrence Durrell, the novelist) , the family of Gerald comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. This title offers an autobiographical account of five years... |
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African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers
W Douglas Fisher · McFarland & Company
Pages: 277
Format: Print book
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In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated... |
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Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Stephen Koch · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan... |
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Cold sweat : my father James Brown and me
Yamma Brown; Robin Gaby Fisher · Chicago Review Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business"--That's a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father's attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated... |
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Life After Darkness: My Journey to Happiness
MICHELLE KNIGHT · Weinstein Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From an unruly childhood to a torturous eleven years of captivity, Michelle Knight's story of resilience and hope in Finding Me captivated readers. Now, in Life After Darkness, she tells the story of how she emerged into a new world and wrestled with her past in order to claim the life... |
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Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel
Alon Shaya · Knopf
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef . . . A moving, deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
Will Bashor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller
One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning... |
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Elissa Altman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
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Queen of the World: Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman
Robert Hardman · Pegasus Books
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover
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Written by renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, this is a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it. On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart... |
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KooKooLand
Gloria Norris · Regan Arts, 2015.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of The Glass Castle and With or Without You, a bracingly funny and chilling true crime memoir about a girl's gutsy journey to escape her charismatic yet cruel father's reign - an unforgettable story of violence, love, and, ultimately, triumph.
It's... |
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