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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
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In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer... |
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Toni Tennille: A Memoir
Toni Tennille · Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 214
Format: Print book
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Since bursting onto the scene in the mid '70s, the pop duo Captain and Tennille have long defined the sparkling, optimistic idea of everlasting love, both in their music and through their image as a happy and, seemingly, unbreakable couple. They were an irresistible pair to millions of fans... |
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife
Gioia Diliberto · Harper Perennial; 8.7.2011 edition
Format: Print book
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“A bittersweetmodern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” —VogueHemingway’screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell toArms, and The Old Man and the Sea came not only from his famoushunting trips, his liaisons in Cuba, or his relationships... |
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Elizabeth Letts · Ballantine Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horsesmdasha drab white former plow horse named Snowmanmdashand his rider, Harry de Leyer. They were the longest... |
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (John MacRae Books)
Philip Short · Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times In the three and a half years of Pol Pot's rule, more than a million Cambodians, a fifth of the country's population, were executed or died from hunger. An idealistic... |
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Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author
Herman Wouk · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 137
Format: Print book
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In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America's most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old.Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography.... |
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The Tender Bar
J.R. Moehringer · Hyperion; 1st edition
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a barJ .R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first... |
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Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family
Laurie Sandell · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims—including friends and family—out of billions of dollars in the worlds largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff... |
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
David Bianculli · Touchstone; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television. Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy... |
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Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
Charlotte Silver · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Book
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Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover... |
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J. D. Salinger: A Life
Kenneth Slawenski · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently... |
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Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
Howie Mandel · Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal hosts ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHDand how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainmentrespected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously... |
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy
Richard Gabriel · Potomac Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging... |
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