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Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience as a fiercely intellectual... |
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Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
Paul Theroux · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences,... |
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Think Big: Overcoming Obstacles with Optimism
Jennifer Arnold MD · Howard Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Bestselling authors and stars of TLC's The Little Couple return with an inspirational book that encourages readers to reach for their dreams, no matter what obstacles they may face.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have faced some big challenges in their lives. On the way to becoming a preeminent... |
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio · Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press
Pages: 310
Format: eBook
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
Janice Erlbaum · Villard
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklyn apartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down,... |
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Guilt by Matrimony: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
Nancy Styler · Benbella Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own home. Someone bludgeoned Pfister to death, wrapped her in a blanket, and stuffed inside her closet. The question was: Who? Then, in March 2014, a married couple from Denver were arrested and charged with first-degree... |
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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez · Hachette Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance... |
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Ruth Reichl · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl’s story in 1978, when she puts down her chef’s toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic.... |
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown... |
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A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man
MICHAEL BISHOP · Prometheus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge's son is convicted of the crime. Decades after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen, stumbles... |
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Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Richard A Rosen · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 408
Format: Print book
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Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked... |
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