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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
Jayson Greene · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss."
--Cheryl Strayed
For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake... |
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Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Life
James Cannon · University of Michigan Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States. from Chapter 4 This is a comprehensive narrative account... |
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Andrew Levy · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern... |
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A Hot Glue Gun Mess: Funny Stories, Pretty DIY Projects
Mr. Kate · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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In this beautiful paperback edition featuring French flaps, hugely popular lifestyle blogger, YouTube star, and designer Mr. Kate (Kate Albrecht) offers a stunning collection of step-by-step personal style and home projects - woven in with quirkily hilarious stories and anecdotes.Do you dream... |
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Nikki Marie Taylor · Ohio University Press
Pages: 152
Format: Print book
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The story of Margaret Garner - the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery - has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Garner's... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American... |
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The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
John M. Adams · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world;... |
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The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
Joe Urschel · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines... |
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Too close to me : the middle-aged consequences of revealing A child called "It"
Dave Pelzer · RosettaBooks; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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"In the blockbuster autobiography A Child Called "It," Dave Pelzer shared the story of his childhood--one of the most dramatic and extreme stories of child abuse ever prosecuted in the state of California. As a child, Pelzer was beaten, starved, and abused both emotionally... |
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris · Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all. When Judith Newman shared... |
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Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon
Jim Trotter · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 218
Format: Print book
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A moving portrait of the life and legendary career of one of the NFL's most beloved players
Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau is widely considered one of the best linebackers ever to play the game. A ten-time All-Pro and twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, Seau was picked for the NFL's... |
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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
Jan Karski · Georgetown University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Jan Karski's Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews... |
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Trump and Me
Mark Singer · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.
It... |
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