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It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir
Gloria Vanderbilt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Not surprisingly, it takes an older woman to write a great kiss-and-tell memoir—who else would have enough lovers under her belt? Vanderbilt opens with an appetizer of schoolgirl sex with a chum from Miss Porter's School in the 1930s and then regales readers with a star-studded... |
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A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel · Doubleday
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir,... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN · BALLANTINE
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly... |
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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
Marc Morris · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale. Edward I is familiar to millions as "Longshanks," conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William... |
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Kindred Souls: The Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch
Edna P Gurewitsch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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In a letter to David Gurewitsch, Eleanor Roosevelt's personal physician and friend during the last fifteen years of her life, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, "Above all others, you are the one to whom my heart is tied...." This defines the intense relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt... |
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Sovereign Ladies: Sex, Sacrifice, and Power--The Six Reigning Queens of England
Maureen Waller · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. In the last millennium there... |
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Wendy Gamber · Ohns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob's face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound.... |
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Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
Virginia Holman · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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"1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing, beautiful, and painfully funny memoir of life with her schizophrenic mother in a disintegrating decade. In May 1974, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second... |
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Possible Side Effects
Augusten Burroughs · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet. |
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Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
David Eisenhower · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four... |
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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
H. W. Brands · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson... |
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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS,... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.... |
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