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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
Brian Jay Jones · Dutton
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. His work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. More than twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to find new readers, now grossing over... |
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The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
Ruth Brandon
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For many performers, stage life and real life are separate identities. For master illusionist Harry Houdini, the two were inextricably linked. In this widely acclaimed biography, Ruth Brandon shows how Houdini's obsession with his own mortality drove him to create death-defying st |
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Einstein
Walter Isaacson · HarperDes; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Walter Isaacson, the New York Times bestselling author of Einstein His Life and Universe, comes Einstein The Life of a Genius, a unique new look at the 20th century scientific icon featuring 180 stunning photographs and rare removable facsimile documents. In this compelling and provocative... |
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." — Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret... |
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Brendan I. Koerner · Crown
Format: Print book
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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some... |
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
PIETRO BARTOLO · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds... |
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Born with Teeth: A Memoir
Kate Mulgrew · Little, Brown and Company,
Pages: 306
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences... |
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Janet Wallach · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating biography of Americas first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time. No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars,... |
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Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf · Free Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Muslims in America who reject extremist or fundamentalist expressions of Islam at home and abroad feel the urgent need for a voice that can represent them in the escalating irrationality of the current debate about Islam, America, and the West. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf—the so-called... |
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Hermione Lee · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most... |
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We'll Always Have Paris: A Mother/Daughter Memoir
Jennifer Coburn · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late.... |
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