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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses,... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during... |
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Help Me!
Marianne Power · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised.... |
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War
Robert L. O'Connell · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American... |
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
Rick Reilly · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An uproarious indictment of Donald Trump's lying, cheating, and poor sportsmanship--by the bestselling author and acclaimed sportswriter. Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump is an on-the-ground and behind-the-scenes look at Trump's ethics deficit on and off the course. Reilly... |
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West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir
Pat Cunnane · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama's years in the White House, directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.West Winging It: An Unpresidential Memoir is the personal story of Pat Cunnane and his journey... |
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The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader
Stephen Fritz · Yale University Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership... |
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Hitler's Executioner: Roland Freisler, President of the Nazi People's Court
Helmut Ortner · Frontline Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was the notorious president of the 'People's Court', a man directly responsible... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Kyle Swenson · Picador
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s, three... |
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