|
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing
Nina Sankovitch · Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
|
|
The author of the much-admired Tolstoy and the Purple Chair goes on a quest through the history of letters and her own personal correspondence to discover and celebrate what is special about the handwritten letter. Witty, moving, enlightening, and inspiring, Signed,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life
Lois Ehlert · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 72
Format: Book
|
|
The renowned Caldecott Honoree and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom provides a moving, intimate, and inspiring inside look at her colorful picture book career.
Lois Ehlert always knew she was an artist. Her parents encouraged her from a young age by teaching... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace
Michael Perry · Harper; 1ST edition
Format: Book
|
|
Tuesdays with Morrie meets Bill Bryson in Visiting Tom, another witty, poignant, and stylish paean to living in New Auburn, Wisconsin, from Michael Perry. The author of Population: 485, Coop, and Truck: A Love Story, Perry takes us along on his uplifting... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Beautiful Ones
Prince · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Book
|
|
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time - featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.
Prince... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley · HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Book
|
|
Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite. An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock
Andrew Earles · Voyageur Press; First edition
Pages: 288
Format: Book
|
|
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton formed Hüsker Dü in 1979 as a wildly cathartic outfit fueled by a cocktail of anger, volume, and velocity. Here's the first book to dissect the trio that countless critics and musicians have cited as one of the most influential bands... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Mountain: My Time on Everest
Ed Viesturs · Touchstone; Second Edition edition
Format: Book
|
|
In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.
In The Mountain,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Pete Seeger In His Own Words
Pete Seeger · Paradigm Publishers
Format: Book
|
|
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger wrote eloquently in books and for magazines, activist movements, and union newsletters. Although he had never written an autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally chronicled than in the private writings,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario · The Penguin Press
Pages: 357
Format: Book
|
|
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Book
|
|
The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today. More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
