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No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life
Chris Jericho · Da Capo Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Written in Chris Jericho's trademark style-jam-packed with ridiculous stories and hilarious references-No Is a Four Letter Word is organized around twenty-two principles on what it takes to make it to the top of your field, featuring stories from legends and influencers along the way. Whether... |
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
Olivia Laing · Picador
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEM?In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern... |
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
MAXWELL KING · Abrams Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
BETH ANN FENNELLY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." -- from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses... |
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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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A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn
CLARA PARKES · Abrams Press
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the top 10 lifestyle books for fall 2017 by Publisher's Weekly.In tales from twenty-one knitters, Clara Parkes examines a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash.Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several... |
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World
Ramachandra Guha · Knopf
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover
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The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival... |
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Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir
Rich DeVos · Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive autobiography, Rich DeVos reflects on work, faith, family, and the core values he’s held on to, from his humble, Christian upbringing through his enormous success as cofounder of one of the world’s largest businesses: Amway. A prominent businessman, self-made... |
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The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
Anne Fadiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines -- with all her characteristic wit and feeling -- her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine -- along with a plummy upper-crust... |
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained... |
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
JENNY UGLOW · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny UglowWe know Edward Lear as a genius of nonsense, full of shocks and surprises, and as a poet of strange loves -- "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," "The Dong with a Luminous Nose."... |
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book
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*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia... |
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