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The Food and Wine of France: Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
Edward Behr · Penguin Press
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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A beautiful and deeply researched investigation into French cuisine, from the founding editor of The Art of Eating and author of 50 Foods.In THE FOOD AND WINE OF FRANCE, the influential food writer Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence.... |
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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner
Franny Moyle · Penguin Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting... |
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Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
B Smith · Harmony Books
Pages: 319
Format: Print book
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"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It's like I'm talking to my other self - the self I used to be. She tells... |
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From Holocaust to Harvard: A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
John Stoessinger · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A true and touching human tale of survival and achievement.When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe.... |
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Bottled : a mom's guide to early recovery
Dana Bowman · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 233
Format: Print book
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"An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriet--a blur of pain and chaos--to her now (in) frequent... |
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Where Memory Leads: My Life
Saul Friedländer · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literature When Memory Comes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with WHEN... |
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Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
Thomas Kunkel · Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer - author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up in the Old Hotel - and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history's greatest disappearing acts. Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph... |
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Song of the Plains: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence
Linda Joy Myers · She Writes Press
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
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Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother,... |
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Paul McCartney: The Life
Philip Norman · Little
Pages: 853
Format: Print book
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The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating... |
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Too Good to Be True: A Memoir
Benjamin Anastas · Little A / New Harvest
Format: Hardcover
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When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother’s fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found the literary acclaim he sought after his 1999 novel,... |
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