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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life

LAURA THOMPSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant...
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Please Enjoy Your Happiness

Paul Brinkley-Rogers · Touchstone
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

"The most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime." - Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of Here's to Us An evocative memoir. A beautiful journey to half a century and half a world away. An ageless love story.Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent...
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My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through

GUY BRANUM · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby, a collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, and host of truTV's Talk Show...
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In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads

Christine Toomey · Experiment Llc, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Illuminating and unprecedented: An award-winning journalist's 60,000-mile journey to meet, learn from, and practice with the world's most remarkable ordained Buddhist women The Tibetan Buddhist nuns who Christine Toomey happened to meet in 2011 told stories she couldn't forget...
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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populists vs. The Establishment from Reagan to Trump

ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement...
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Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters

Sean Egan · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning - their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points - when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977...
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Crafting with Mason Jars and other Glass Containers: Over 35 simple and beautiful upcycling projects

Hester Van Overbeek · Cico Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Upcycle your glass jars and other vessels into useful and lovely objects. Follow Hester van Overbeek's easy steps to make a fresh flower-decorated tea-light votive for a garden party, store all your grains and pasta in large jars with vibrantly painted lids, or why not surprise a friend...
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

Michele Borba · Touchstone
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining...
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel

Robert F Kennedy · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,...
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Fix: Freedom from All Your Addictions

RUSSELL BRAND · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery"This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification...
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Pregnant, Fit and Fabulous: Your Complete Guide to Exercise Before, During and After Pregnancy

Mary Bacon · Made for Success Publishing
Pages: 426
Format: Print book

Pregnant Fit and Fabulous is a fresh, therapeutic yet energizing tool to help women feel fit and fabulous during pregnancy. It is written for women who are both new to exercise and to experienced athletes who want safe and effective programs for before, during and after pregnancy.In Pregnant,...
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Guy Fieri Family Food: 125 Real-Deal Recipes-Kitchen Tested, Home Approved

Guy Fieri · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Food Network superstar and New York Times bestselling author dishes up flavorful All-American family-friendly meals for weeknights and weekends alike.As one of Food Network's biggest stars, Guy has taken America on a cross-country tour in Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. He's challenged...
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Make It Yourself! Bots & Circuits

Kelly Coss · Checkerboard Library
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Learn about makerspaces with Make It Yourself! Bots & Circuits! Young makers will discover what makerspaces are and how to hold maker events. Kids will create LED constellations, build robots, make flashlights, and more. Each project has color photos and easy-to-follow instructions....
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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

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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Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick · Touchstone
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" (Harper's Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls, "Scrappy Little Nobody...
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