| |
|
Blanchester Public Library
|
| |
 |
| |
Biographies & Memoirs |
|
|
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
|
|
#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
Ben Bradlee Jr. · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
At long last, the epic biography Ted Williams deserves--and that his fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Bryan Stevenson · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
#1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times * The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * The Seattle Times * Esquire * Time Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction | Winner of a Books... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family
Diana Abu-Jaber · W W Norton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
|
|
"Diana Abu-Jaber is the Ambassador of Big-Heartedness." -- Patrick Volk, on The Language of BaklavaOn one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other,... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton · Random House Inc
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
|
|
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself - no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
Nina MacLaughlin · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist--'Carpenter's assistant : women strongly encouraged to apply'--despite being a Classics... |
| |
|
|
|
|
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
Michael Korda · HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pages: 785
Format: Hardcover
|
|
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee - perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Theft by Finding: Diaries
DAVID SEDARIS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
|
|
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that the world's best writers tend to keep diaries.... |
| |
|
|
|
|
The Family of Jesus
Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
|
|
America's favorite inspirational novelist offers a fictional view of six of the family members of Jesus, all anchored by Scriptural truth, creating a life-changing and unprecedented emotional connection to the Bible.Through The Family of Jesus, readers will develop an emotional connection... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Nina Stibbe · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives,... |
| |
|
|
|
|
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
|
|
They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy's strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world... |
| |
|
|
|
|
