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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
JOYCE MAYNARD · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard... |
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Love Life
Rob Lowe · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author Rob Lowe offers up a collection of personal stories in an honest and celebratory memoir about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and son, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.Rob Low is back with stories he only tells his best... |
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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that... |
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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Frances Wilson · Farrar
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the RomanticsThomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth,... |
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Donna Seaman · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community
Sister Simone Campbell · HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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In the summer of 2012, Sister Simone Campbell and a group of fellow Roman Catholic nuns toured parts of the country to rally support against Congressman Paul Ryan's budget, a plan that cut vital social programs for the hurting poor and the struggling middle class. Prayer groups turned... |
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose · Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Turn Washingtons Spies Now a new original series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into... |
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward · Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle AwardNominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA New York Times Notable Book"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood... |
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Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last
Patience Bloom · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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Who knows the ins and outs of romance better than a Harlequin editor? A surprising and exhilarating look into Patience Bloom's unexpected real-life love story.At some point, we've all wished romance could be more like fiction. Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen... |
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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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"Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep dive...Perhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review The hilarious behind-the-scenes... |
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The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me
Cathie Borrie · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!"Since Cathie Borrie delivered her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer's Day event sponsored by the Community and Access Programs of the Museum of Modern... |
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 2013 National Book Award WinnerA New York Times BestsellerSelected by New York Times critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013One of Amazons Best Books of 2013A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Washington Post Best Political Book of 2013An NPR Best Book of 2013A New Republic... |
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