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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Peter McGraw · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback |
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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist "shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why" (New York Post) .Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball... |
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Kayla Williams · W.W. Norton & Co
Pages: 252
Format: Print book |
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When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,... |
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My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants
Colman Andrews · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 322
Format: Print book |
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My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat - from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli - and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.For reviewer,... |
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Bastards: A Memoir
Mary Anna King · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." -- Peter BalakianIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words,... |
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
John Rizzo · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336 |
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From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government's intelligence program (1976-2009).In 1975, fresh out of law school and working... |
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Born with Teeth: A Memoir
Kate Mulgrew · Little, Brown and Company,
Pages: 306
Format: Large Print Hardcover |
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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences... |
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Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography
Lorenzo Lamas · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Meet the real Lorenzo Lamas. Lorenzo Lamas has played many roles over the course of his roller coaster career. Star of two major television shows, five-time husband, and reality show star, Lamas has been tabloid fodder for decades. Fans can easily believe they have seen every side of Lamas.... |
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The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush
John H. Sununu · Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover |
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In this major reassessment of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, his former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency."I'm a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others... |
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