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The Cost of Courage
Charles Kaiser · Other Press (NY)
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." - The Guardian (US) This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer... |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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The Best "Worst President": What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama
Mark Hannah · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and renowned New Yorker illustrator Bob Staake give Barack Obama the victory lap he deserves in this compendium that takes the president's critics head-on and celebrates the president's many underappreciated triumphs.Barack Obama's... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy · William Morrow; Hardcover Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking girl journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern... |
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Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza
Colin Atrophy Hagendorf · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover |
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"Over the course of two years, a twenty-something punk rocker eats a cheese slice from every pizzeria in New York City, gets sober, falls in love, and starts a blog that captures headlines around the world--he is the Slice Harvester, and this is his story. Since its arrival on US shores... |
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Sasha Abramsky · New York Review of Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted epic gatherings in their house of books that... |
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
Nicolaia Rips · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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"Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise - a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents" (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author) , Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing... |
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Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
Brittany Gibbons · Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead... |
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