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My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir
Mary Louise Wilson · The Overlook Press
Pages: 219
Format: Print book
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The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens, detailing the singular life and career of one of our most admired and acclaimed stage actors Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary... |
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A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Eric Liu · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed... |
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The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
Benjamin Taylor · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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A memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. "Taylor's Hue and Cry is a vast offer of thanks and glowing triumph, his masterpiece to date." - Richard... |
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future
Keith Ellison · Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes. Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. That wasn't... |
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John Wilkes Booth: Beyond the Grave
W.C. Jameson · Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Book
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Leading the reader through a series of amazing coincidences and details, this book presents startling evidence that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was never captured but escaped to live for decades, continue his acting career, marry, and have children. Compelling... |
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Gail Lumet Buckley · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 353
Format: Print book
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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir
Gail Caldwell · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 176
Format: Book
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The Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let's Take the Long Way Home now gives us a stunning, exquisitely written memoir about a dramatic turning point in her life, which unexpectedly opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection. New Life,... |
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Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
James Gavin · Atria Books
Pages: 601
Format: Book
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From the author of the "definitive" (Vanity Fair) biography of Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee."She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..." Miss... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Is You Okay?
GloZell Green · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A fun, inspiring memoir from "the Queen of YouTube" about her journey from anonymity in Florida to massive popularity on the Internet, filled with the unlikeliest of stories that are as poignant as they are hilarious"Is you okay? Is you good? Cuz I want to know!"Eager... |
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Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
Dave Isay · Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Book
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A celebration of the relationships that bring us strength, purpose, and joy Ties That Bind honors the people who nourish and strengthen us. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project’s rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate... |
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Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
Jerry Oppenheimer · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood Woody Johnson IV, all is revealed in this scrupulously researched, unauthorized biography by New York... |
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