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Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
Harold S Kushner · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 171
Format: Print book
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From the beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, deeply moving and illuminating reflections on what it means to live a good life.
As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of twelve books on faith, ethics, and how to apply... |
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books
PBS · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.
What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read... |
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
Maude Julien · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul.
Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn... |
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Jessica Valenti · Dey Street Books
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller NPR Best Book of 2016 "Sharp and prescient ... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it ... Sex Object is an antidote... |
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Being Elvis
Ray Connolly · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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On the fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death comes this rocking biography of an iconic artist who fundamentally transformed American culture. Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses... |
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Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
Jeff Gordinier · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection.... |
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Untitled rob sheffield novel.
Robert J Sheffield · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known... |
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A Million Fragile Bones
CONNIE MAY FOWLER · Twisted Road Publications
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Environmental Studies. On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP operated oil rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven men died in the explosion. Before the well was capped, it spewed an estimated 4.9 million gallons of oil into the gulf. The spill... |
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life
Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed... |
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Binge
Tyler Oakley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media.... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion.
Franklin... |
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My life on the road
Gloria Steinem · Random House
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED... |
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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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