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My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today
Nora Pouillon · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 261
Format: Print book
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A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America's first certified organic restaurant, My Organic Life is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. While growing up on a farm in the Austrian... |
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How to Be a Man:
Duff McKagan · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Duff McKagan is one of the most respected survivors in hard rock. In How to Be a Man, he shares the wisdom he gained on the path to superstardom - from his time with Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to getting sober after a life of hard living to achieving his personal American Dream... |
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H. L. Mencken: the Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition:
H L Mencken · Library Of America
Pages: 872
Format: Hardcover
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A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure... |
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Jeffrey Gettleman · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent yet most beautiful places in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past... |
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Behind Nazi Lines: My Father's Heroic Quest to Save 149 World War II POWs
Andrew Gerow Hodges Jr. · Berkley Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds . . . An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish... |
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The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
Juan Reinaldo Sanchez · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the Lider... |
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Hillary the Other Woman
Dolly Kyle · Wnd Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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You think you know Hillary and Bill Clinton pretty well. After all, they have been in the public eye from Arkansas to the White House and beyond for over forty years. Dolly Kyle met former president Clinton (Billy as she calls him) on a Hot Springs golf course when she was eleven and he was almost... |
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A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Paul Youngquist · University of Texas Press
Pages: 362
Format: Print book
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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the "Arkestra." Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional... |
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The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer
Martha Elliott · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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An astonishing portrait of a murderer and his complex relationship with a crusading journalistMichael Ross was a serial killer who raped and murdered eight young women between 1981 and 1984, and several years ago the state of Connecticut put him to death. His crimes were horrific, and he paid... |
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained... |
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Helena Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.In his first... |
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait... |
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