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Lois Lenski: Storycatcher
Bobbie Malone · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children see beyond the rim of their own world. In "Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, " historian and educator Bobbie Malone... |
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No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life
Chris Jericho · Da Capo Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Written in Chris Jericho's trademark style-jam-packed with ridiculous stories and hilarious references-No Is a Four Letter Word is organized around twenty-two principles on what it takes to make it to the top of your field, featuring stories from legends and influencers along the way. Whether... |
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Hope: Entertainer of the Century
Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Revelatoryfascinating The New York Times The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes the persuasive case that he was the most important entertainer of the twentieth century. With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly... |
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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
Jen Bricker · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty... |
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Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America
Stephen F. Knott · Sourcebooks
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The Untold Story of the Extraordinary Alliance That Forged Our Nation and the Unlikely Duo Behind It: George Washington & Alexander HamiltonIn the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes... |
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Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Perry A Ulander · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing... |
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Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston's Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A moving portrait of four lives that came together in a moment, proving that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to unexpectedly beautiful thingsAs Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard... |
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Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty
K. M. Kostyal · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The eras dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated... |
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A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Bruce J Hillman · ForeEdge
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered... |
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Now I See You: A Memoir
Nicole C. Kear · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kears biggest concern is choosing a major--until she walks into a doctors office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before Lights... |
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Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters
Lt. Col. Mark Weber · Ballantine Books; 5.5.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old... |
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Joan Biskupic · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009-made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable-flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto... |
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