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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Stacy Schiff · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his careerIn December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France. So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin-seventy years... |
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J. D. Salinger: A Life
Kenneth Slawenski · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently... |
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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Rehab System
Lonny Shavelson · New Press, The; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful critique of our current drug-rehab system, through the stories of the addicts inside it. Lonny Shavelson's 1995 book on euthanasia, A Chosen Death, spoke to us at the right time: it engaged that most difficult issue with such personally moving stories that it was serialized... |
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My Story
Elizabeth Smart · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken... |
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The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice... |
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The Way of the Wiseguy: True Stories from the FBI's Most Famous Undercover Agent
Donnie Brasco · Running Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Here's the first nonfiction work from author Joe Pistone since his New York Times #1 bestseller and hit movie, Donnie Brasco. Perhaps no man alive knows the inner workings and lifestyle of wiseguys better than Pistone does, having spent six years infiltrating the Mafia as an undercover... |
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House... |
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