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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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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
Kelly Corrigan · Ballantine
Pages: 224
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters.
When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly... |
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Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell
Susan Whitall · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet.
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Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging
Janet Browne · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species”... |
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The Jaguar Man
Lara Naughton · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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What happens when one harrowing incident changes your life, splitting it between before and now? On the fourth day of what Lara Naughton thought would be two weeks of bliss in Belize, she was kidnapped by a man pretending to be a cabdriver, held in the tropical forest, and raped. In the depths... |
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Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked
Marcia Biederman · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included cooperation... |
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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A genuine literary event - an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal... |
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
Nicholas Carlson · Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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When Yahoo hired Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge... |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN · Random House
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream.
"Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews
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Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
Rao Pingru · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old... |
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Jay Barbree · Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time... |
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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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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.
One life-changing night, reeling... |
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