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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
Lorri Glover · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri... |
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In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Joseph Luzzi · Harper Wave; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning - a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating... |
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14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two Week Goodbye
Lisa Goich · Savio Republic
Pages: 225
Format: Print book
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How do you let go of a hand you've held your whole life?When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother's life - and ultimately - death. 14 Days is a story... |
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Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts--From FDR to Obama
Mel Ayton · Regnery History
Format: Book
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In American history, four U.S. Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin. In each case the assassinations changed the course of American history.But most historians have overlooked or downplayed the many threats modern presidents have faced, and survived. Author Mel Ayton... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan · Harpercollins
Pages: 652
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 401
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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Eisenhower: A Life
Paul Johnson · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly... |
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My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry
Philip Levine · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth... |
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
ELAINE M HAYES · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rights Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array... |
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
David Ritz · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left... |
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Megan Marshall · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets
Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet - painfully shy and living... |
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