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Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World
Tim Sultan · Random House
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world - and the mercurial,... |
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In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger... |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) -- a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin · Liveright
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book... |
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Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
Leah Carroll · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother,... |
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Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
LAMONT HAWKINS · Picador USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. The Wu-Tang Clan is American hip-hop royalty. Rolling Stone called them the "best rap group ever" and their debut album,... |
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The Iceberg: A Memoir
Marion Coutts · Grove Press, Black Cat
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Winner of the Wellcome PrizeA finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award"A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion...an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way." - The Sunday... |
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Katherine Ramsland PhD · Foreedge
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K."... |
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur · Pocket Books
Pages: 176
Format: Book
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Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice.... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Kenneth L Adelman · Harpercollins
Pages: 375
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War - by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 |
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Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression
Jay Griffiths · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell.But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun..."Tristimania... |
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