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Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
Sharan Newman · Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Jerusalem sits at the crossroads of three continents and has been continuously invaded for millennia. Yet, in the middle of one of the region's most violent eras, the Crusades, an amazing multicultural world was forming. Templar knights, Muslim peasants, Turkish caliphs, Jewish merchants,... |
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU · Harper
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education... |
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Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters
Sean Egan · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning - their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points - when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977... |
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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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Freezing People Is
Robert F Nelson · Lyons Press,
Pages: 246
Format: Print book
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Bob Nelson was no ordinary T.V. repairman. One day he discovered a book that ultimately changed his entire life trajectory --The Prospect of Immortality by Professor Robert Ettinger. From it, he learned about cryonics: a process in which the body temperature is lowered during the beginning... |
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
Ted Geltner · The University of Georgia Press
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. |
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A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Bruce J Hillman · ForeEdge
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered... |
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The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
ANTHONY M DESTEFANO · Citadel
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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"Terrific DeStefano. He finally gives us a fitting end to the murderous and fabled story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist." - Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino"A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive." - Publisher's Weekly The crime... |
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America
Bill Schelly · Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzmanthe man who revolutionized humor in America it features new interviews with his colleagues Hugh Hefner, Robert Crumb, and others. Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original... |
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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
Alain Baraton · Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
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INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,... |
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Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962
Stephen E Ambrose · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Book
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From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62,... |
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Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Deborah Beatriz Blum · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge... |
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American Warlord: A True Story
Johnny Dwyer · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of 17 he followed his father to Liberia, where he ended up leading a murderous militia. Chucky is now in a federal penitentiary, the only American ever... |
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