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Wildflower
Drew Barrymore · Dutton
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today. Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible... |
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Bolano: A Biography in Conversations
Monica Maristain · Melville House; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A major contribution..."—Los Angeles TmesThe first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, whose Savage Detectives and 2666 were bestsellers in the U.S. Written by a noted magazine writer who knew and interviewed Bolaño.How to know the man behind works... |
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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Dee Williams · Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people... |
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The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado
Larry L Massey · University Press of Florida
Pages: 179
Format: Print book
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"Fascinating. Massey brings to life the stories and mysteries surrounding this legendary figure of the nineteenth-century Southeast and shows how the outlaw has influenced our cultural heritage." - Susan Reynolds, associate editor, Alabama Heritage "A compelling and highly... |
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Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
Aisha Tyler · It Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS’s daytime hit show The Talk, Aisha Tyler recounts a series of epic mistakes and hilarious stories of crushing personal humiliation, and the personal insights and authentic wisdom she gathered along the way. The... |
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Sunshine State: Essays
Sarah Gerard · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida's gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival - physical, emotional, environmental - through a collection of essays exploring intimacy,... |
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Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story
Robyn Doolittle · Penguin Group
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
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His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto mayor Rob Ford's personal and political troubles have occupied centre stage in North America's fourth-largest city since news broke that drug dealers were selling a videotape... |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.The first time I touched... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Kevin R C Gutzman · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans who were full citizens and the role... |
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Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend
Edward Caudill · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 388
Format: Hardcover
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Custer's Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger... |
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A Mother's Tale
Phillip Lopate · Mad River Books
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
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In 1984, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother, Frances, to listen to her life story. A strong, resilient, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century, she was orphaned in childhood, ran away and married young, and then reinvented herself as a mother,... |
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