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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett · Bloomsbury
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
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The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty
J Randy Taraborrelli · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the boardroom, Conrad struggled with... |
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
Avery Corman · Barricade Books
Format: Book
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up – in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers,... |
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Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
HARVEY SACHS · Liveright
Pages: 923
Format: Hardcover
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life is unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.It may be difficult to imagine today, but Arturo Toscanini -- recognized widely as the most celebrated conductor of the twentieth... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Sarah Perry · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal.... |
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Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth
Margaret McLean · Forge
Pages: 367
Format: Print book
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 301
Format: eBook
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For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases--Alzheimer's--from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL... |
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first page... |
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents... |
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Killing Albert Berch
ALAN HOLLINGSWORTH · Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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In 1923, a white hotel owner in rural Oklahoma took a bullet to protect his black employee. They were then killed by a mob, and newspapers from Dallas to the East Coast covered the crime. This true story sent ripples of revulsion through the region at the time but has been lost to history... |
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Flyover Lives: A Memoir
Diane Johnson · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"Smart . . . perceptive . . . Flyover Lives is a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape... |
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