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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner · Harperwave
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
Emily Parker · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover |
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In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition... |
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True Love
Jennifer Lopez · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person... |
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Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
Michael Kranish · Oxford University Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover |
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state... |
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The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
Ben Montgomery · CRP
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stashing explosives in spare tires, tracking Japanese troop movements, and smuggling maps of fortifications across enemy lines for Gen. Douglas... |
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
Fred Vogelstein · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it’s reshaping the way we think about technologyThe rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies,... |
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Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car
Randy Denmon · W W Norton
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure - driving a Tesla through Central America.Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt... |
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario · The Penguin Press
Pages: 357
Format: Print book |
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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The inspirational story of Welles Crowther, whose decision, determination and sacrifice in the terror of 9/11 have inspired millions, and whose short life offers a lasting lesson on character, calling, and courage--in how we live, and in the legacy we choose to leave behind When Welles... |
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Cookie Johnson · Howard Books
Pages: 253
Format: Print book |
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In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin "Magic"... |
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book |
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*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover |
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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