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Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.
Forty-five... |
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Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A runaway bestseller in the UK - Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live
Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt's... |
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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer
J REUBEN APPELMAN · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: eBook
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Enthralling. Gripping. Cinematic. Raw. A cold case murder investigation paced like a podcast, as visually stunning as a film, and as brave and personal as our darkest memoirs. J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America's most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel... |
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Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life
Jan Marsh · Viking Adult
Pages: 634
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-scale biography of the Victorian poet explains her recurrent bouts of depression following rumors of sexual abuse, traces her ties to London's literati, and discusses her place in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. |
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Winnie Mandela
Nancy Harrison · George Braziller
Pages: 183
Format: Hardcover
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Presents the life of the South African woman who has struggled for reform despite arrests, bannings, detentions, and the imprisonment of her husband. |
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB · Two Dollar Radio
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. Born in the Old City of Sana'a,... |
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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 Romantics Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility... |
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All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
Andrew M. Cuomo · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this full and frank memoir—a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along... |
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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
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Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
Paul Martin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters:... |
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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story
CECILE RICHARDS · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble
From Cecile Richards - president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and a "heroine... |
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