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Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger
Stephen H. Grant · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug.Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging,... |
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The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
Janice Kaplan · Dutton Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work and health. Her pioneering reseach was praised in People and Vanity Fair and hailed on TV shows including Today, The O'Reilly Factor, and CBS's The Talk.... |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,... |
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Peter McGraw · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist "shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why" (New York Post) .Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball... |
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance... |
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Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
Matthew Cutter · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The authorized biography of Robert Pollard, indie rock icon and founder of the music group Guided By VoicesRobert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene since the early 1980s, along with his band Guided By Voices. Pollard was a longtime grade school teacher who toiled endlessly... |
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Afterglow
EILEEN MYLES · Grove Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books) . This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved... |
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Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
LAMONT HAWKINS · Picador USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. The Wu-Tang Clan is American hip-hop royalty. Rolling Stone called them the "best rap group ever" and their debut album,... |
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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
Suzy Favor Hamilton · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy,... |
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life: A Memoir
Victoria Fedden · Picador
Pages: 321
Format: Print book
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life is the story of how Victoria lost her parents to prison and nearly lost her mind. No one ever said motherhood would be easy, but as she struggles to change diapers, install car seats, and find the right drop-off line at pre-school--no easy task--when each one is named... |
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Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
Karina Longworth · Custom House
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power and publicity... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House
Pages: 937
Format: Print book
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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