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The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
William J Mann · Harpercollins
Pages: 640
Format: Print book
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The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families - the Roosevelts - exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic... |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national... |
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The Road Headed West: A 6,000-Mile Cycling Odyssey through North America
Leon McCarron · Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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What happens when you swap the nine-to-five for two wheels and a journey of a lifetime?Terrified of the prospect of a life spent behind a desk, without challenge or excitement, Leon takes off to cross America on an overloaded bicycle packed with everything but common sense.Over five months... |
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The Southern Cast Iron Cookbook: Comforting Family Recipes to Enjoy and Share
Elena Rosemond-Hoerr · Rockridge Press
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
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Finally, a cast iron cookbook that does with cast iron what cast iron does best -- cook delicious Southern food as timeless as the skillet itself.What's not to love about cast iron? It's versatile. It lasts forever. And most of all, it can cook just about anything. But at its core,... |
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Upcycling: 20 Creative Projects Made from Reclaimed Materials
Max McMurdo · Jacqui Small
Pages: 114
Format: Print book
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Ever thought about transforming that rusty old item in the garage into something awesome to impress your dinner guests, or fancied refurbishing the random old dining chair in the shed but don't have the tools or knowhow?In Upcycling Max McMurdo teaches you how to discover inner design... |
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Bridge of words : Esperanto and the dream of a universal language
Esther H Schor · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realizeIn 1887, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish Jew, had the idea of putting an end to tribalism by creating a universal language, one that would be equally accessible to everyone in the world. The result... |
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One Pan & Done: Hassle-Free Meals from the Oven to Your Table
Molly Gilbert · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The author of the runaway hit Sheet Pan Suppers expands her repertoire with easy and delicious recipes for dutch ovens, skillets, casserole baking dishes, and more. In One Pan & Done, Molly Gilbert shows you how to use your oven to your advantage, letting it do most of the work to turn... |
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Michael Sims · Bloomsbury
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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The Cancer Whisperer: Finding Courage, Direction, and The Unlikely Gifts of Cancer
Sophie Sabbage · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The self-published sensation and UK bestseller that has helped thousands touched by cancer. "I have cancer. Cancer does not have me." Sophie Sabbage was forty-eight years old, happily married, and mother to a four-year-old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.... |
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta · Penguin Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than... |
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American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Nate Blakeslee · Crown
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s.... |
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Peter O'Toole: The Definitive Biography
Robert Sellers · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Peter O'Toole was supremely talented, a unique leading man and one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. Described by his friend Richard Burton as "the most original actor to come out of Britain since the war," O'Toole was also unpredictable, with a dangerous edge... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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