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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life
Elizabeth White · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Book
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For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.
Elizabeth... |
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Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff · Back Bay Books
Pages: 13
Format: Paperback
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Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second;... |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond · Viking Adult; 1 edition
Pages: 592
Format: Book
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A study of the downfall of some of historys greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate... |
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Edison
Edmund Morris · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Book
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York... |
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis · HarperCollins Leadership on Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Rachel Hollis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and host of the top-rated Rise podcast, urges women to stop apologizing for their desires, hopes, and dreams and instead to go after them with passion and confidence.
Rachel Hollis has seen it too often:... |
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I Think You're Wrong
Sarah Stewart Holland · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Book
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Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument.
More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting... |
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On the Run in Siberia
Rane Willerslev · Univ Of Minnesota Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost.The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest... |
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Recipes from the Root Cellar: 270 Fresh Ways to Enjoy Winter Vegetables
Andrea Chesman · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Nothing tastes better than the seasonal bounty of local farms. Everyone loves the spring-is-here excitement of peas and asparagus and the summer sweetness of tomatoes and corn. Now it’s time to give the hearty, long-lasting bounty of the autumn garden its due. Whether these vegetables... |
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Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe
Mary K. Jensen · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy's number one rule, "adapt," once again reigns.
Rudy's Rules for Travel takes... |
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Alice Ozma · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 279
Format: Book
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A series of vignettes describes how the author's father challenged himself to read aloud to her for one hundred consecutive nights when she was in fourth grade and how they decided to continue "the streak" until the day she left for college. --This text refers to an alternate... |
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Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs
Eric Sanderson · Harry N. Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Many experts agree that energy is the defining issue of this century. Economic recessions, foreign wars, and foreclosures are only a few of the results of America’s dependence on oil. In Terra Nova, ecologist Eric Sanderson elucidates the interconnections between oil and money,... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Book
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old.... |
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Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums
The The Economist · Economist
Pages: 224
Format: Book
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In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate... |
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