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Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter
Randall Balmer · Basic Books
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals, who responded to his open religiosity and his rejection of the moral... |
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Jessica Fechtor · Avery
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.... |
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Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A transcendent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief Teju Cole is the rare writer whose work can stir conversation among opinion makers and become a viral sensation with the general public. Cole's debut essay collection is sure... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN""You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."... |
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Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Peace Pilgrim · Ocean Tree Books
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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The silver-haired woman walked away from her name and vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace". On New Year's Day, 1953, she walked ahead of the Tournament of Roses parade handing out peace messages. It was the beginning of a pilgrimage that... |
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Queen Victoria Was Amused
Alan Hardy · Taplinger Pub. Co.
Pages: 214
Format: Print book
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Queen Victoria was Amused, 1977, by Alan Hardy. Hardcover with dust jacket, 214 pages, published by Taplinger Publishing Company. |
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Prison Baby: A Memoir
Deborah Jiang-Stein · Beacon Press,
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
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A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth in prison--to find self-acceptance Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial... |
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Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics
Humaira Awais Shahid with Kelly Horan · W.W. Norton
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan.In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the "women's section" of one of Pakistan's leading Urdu newspapers. She soon... |
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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Francois Furstenberg · The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republics formative years from the viewpoint... |
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth a poor cobblers son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band... |
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