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Champagne Baby: How One Parisian Learned to Love Wine-and Life-the American Way
Laure Dugas · Ballantine
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Fresh, charming, and wholly irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose - much to her surprise - in America. Laure Dugas is a champagne baby, born into a family of winemakers... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS,... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Frances Wilson · Farrar
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the RomanticsThomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth,... |
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My Salinger Year
Joanna Rakoff · Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Keenly observed and irresistibly funny, My Salinger Year is a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary... |
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Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose
Candace Cameron Bure · B & H Publishing Group
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
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"How do you do it all?"That's the question that wife, mom, actress, and best-selling author Candace Cameron Bure is often asked. And it's a question that women everywhere are asking themselves as we seek to balance all of our roles, responsibilities, and opportunities.So,... |
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940
Gary Giddins · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star. |
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Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant
Marc Forgione · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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The eagerly awaited first cookbook from one of Food Network's favorite competitors on the wildly popular Iron Chef America Chef Marc Forgione opened his eponymous New York City restaurant in 2008 to widespread acclaim, becoming the youngest American-born chef and owner to receive a Michelin... |
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
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Mad Dog Coll: An Irish Gangster
Breanda?n Delap · Huntington Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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What was so fascinating about this Prohibition-era gangster? After all, dozens of such hoods roamed the streets of New York City in those desperate and violent years.But Vincent Coll took street violence to another level. He was a fearless soldier who became a leader. He forced Dutch Schultz,... |
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Bowie: The Biography
Wendy Leigh · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time - David Bowie.David Bowie - the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator - is a living legend. However, for the past... |
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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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"Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep dive...Perhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review The hilarious behind-the-scenes... |
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