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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
SCOTT JUREK · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about taking on -- and defeating -- the Appalachian Trail.Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Now, in NORTH, Jurek recounts his 2015 journey to discover something new about... |
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James Still: A Life
Carol Boggess · University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 602
Format: Hardcover
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James Still (1906-2001) first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet, and he remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Though he is best known for the seminal novel River of Earth -- which Time magazine called a "work of art"... |
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Peter Stark · Ecco
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young... |
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Temple Grandin: The Stories I Tell My Friends
Temple Grandin · Future Horizons
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
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Throughout the pages of this book you will get to know Temple Grandin like you've never seen her before. Temple shares stories about herself that she's never told anyone until now. She's a human dynamo, and a tough act to follow. Does she focus on the fact that she has autism?... |
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
JULIA VAN HAAFTEN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor.Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer... |
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A Little History of Archaeology
BRIAN FAGAN · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art.... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until... |
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
Roland Philipps · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The first full biography of one of the twentieth century's most notorious spies.Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man's betrayal... |
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