|
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan · Harpercollins
Pages: 652
Format: Hardcover |
|
Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book |
|
The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Watergate: chronology of a crisis
inc Congressional Quarterly · Congressional Quarterly |
|
Now back in print, "Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis" is the permanent record of Congressional Quarterly's exhaustive coverage of the 1970s Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. This compilation of material covers the impeachment debate,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1932
Blanche Wiesen Cook · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover |
|
Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the twentieth century. The second volume plunges into the White House years and the Great Depression,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
Kent Brantly · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
|
"Kent, bud. We got your test result. And I'm really sorry to tell you that it is positive for Ebola." Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly moved with their children to war-torn Liberia in the fall of 2013 to provide medical care for people in great need - to help replace hopelessness with... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph · It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
|
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the definitive life of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller - one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. Fourteen years in the making,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots
Linda Porter · St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship between Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, was fuelled by three generations... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Love Life
Rob Lowe · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers
Eleanor Henderson · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 310
Format: Print book |
|
Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profaneIt's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
