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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
Carrie Brownstein · Riverhead Books
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became... |
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
Laura Tillman · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime - the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas.On March... |
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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Carla Power · Holt McDougal
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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"Carla Power's intimate portrait of the Quran captures the extraordinary, living debate over the Muslim holy book's very essence. A spirited, compelling read."-Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick JihadIf the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime... |
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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
Carly Simon · Flatiron Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist. Feminist Icon.... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Petty: The Biography
Warren Zanes · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with PettyNo one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music... |
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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Garry Kasparov · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil Strauss · Harpercollins
Pages: 421
Format: Print book
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This is not a journey that was undertaken for journalistic purposes. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences."As such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of - and a few things I feel like I should... |
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tom Robbins · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 362
Format: Print book
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels - including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
John Rizzo · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Book
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From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government's intelligence program (1976-2009).In 1975, fresh out of law school and working... |
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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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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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The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise
Nick Foster · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama--a tale of greed, political history, and murderIn the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five... |
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