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Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Anthony Bourdain · Melville House
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor Noah.Anthony Bourdain traveled an extraordinary road, evolving from celebrity chef to intrepid... |
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,... |
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist... |
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
A. N. Wilson · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height... |
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep... |
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Travel Light, Move Fast
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly... |
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
Zahra Hankir · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane AmanpourA growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat... |
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Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter
Jessica Wragg · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink.When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery... |
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
Billy Jensen · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. Audiobook available now. Pre-order the hardcover version, available August 13, 2019.Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against... |
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If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
Christopher Benfey · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating new exploration of Rudyard Kipling's life in Gilded Age America, and the essential work he did here, from a celebrated author and scholar of American literatureRudyard Kipling once towered over not just English literature, but indeed the entire literary world. In 1907, at just... |
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