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Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution
Jon Fine · Viking
Format: Hardcover |
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* A New York Times Summer Reading List selection * A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 * A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent rock underground by a musician who knows it intimately Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands... |
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This Book Is Gay
James Dawson · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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"This egregious gap has now been filled to a fare-thee-well by Dawson's book..." - Booklist (Starred) Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared... |
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Dreams of Earth and Sky
Freeman Dyson · New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson - whom The Times of London calls "one of the world's most original minds" - celebrates openness to unconventional ideas and "the spirit of joyful dreaming" in which he believes that science should be pursued.... |
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The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World
Tracy Slater · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover |
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The brave, wry, irresistible journey of a fiercely independent American woman who finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu: in Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic,... |
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Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
Lauren F. Winner · Harper One
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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Lauren F. Winner - a leading writer at the crossroads of culture and spirituality and author of Still and Girl Meets God - joins the ranks of luminaries such as Anne Lamott and Barbara Brown Taylor with this exploration of little known - and, so, little used - biblical metaphors for God,... |
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A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Edmund Levin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 377
Format: Print book |
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A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months... |
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All-Time Best Soups
America's Test Kitchen (Firm) · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 182
Format: Print book |
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A perfect soup recipe is one you make forever--it is comforting, nourishing, the very essence of flavor. In this handsome, focused cookbook, the experts at Cooks Illustrated boil the world of soups down to the very best choices, each one a kitchen-tested keeper yielding flavors that exceed... |
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Jennifer Finney Boylan · Broadway Books; 2 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback |
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The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming... |
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