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George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives)
Paul Johnson · Harper Collins; First edition
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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George Washington is by far the most important figure in the history of the United States. Against all military odds, he liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire and presided over the process to produce and ratify a Constitution that (suitably amended)... |
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Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Heidi Squier Kraft · Little
Pages: 243
Format: Print book
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When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated... |
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Stacy Schiff · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his careerIn December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France. So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin-seventy years... |
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Sunshine State: Essays
Sarah Gerard · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida's gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival - physical, emotional, environmental - through a collection of essays exploring intimacy,... |
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Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South
Catherine McCall · Crown
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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In her sharply observed and ultimately redemptive memoir, Catherine McCall paints a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of growing up in a complicated Southern family, whose perfect façade hides crippling imperfections.There are two parents, three children, and five ghosts in the McCall... |
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More Room in a Broken Heart: The True Adventures of Carly Simon
Stephen Davis · Gotham; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A love song to an American icon: the first full-length biography of Carly Simon, from an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades Carly Simon has won two Grammys and an Academy Award, and her albums have sold more than forty million copies. Her music has touched countless... |
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Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
Susan Cheever · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved... |
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Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
Dana Milbank · Doubleday
Format: Kindle Edition
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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural... |
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
William J. Mann · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the imageOnscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine... |
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My Word is My Bond: A Memoir
Sir Roger Moore · Collins; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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From the saint to maverick to James Bond, Roger Moore’s story is one of the last of the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold. Until now. One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half century, Sir Roger Moore played the role of James Bond longer than any other actor.... |
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