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Bastards: A Memoir
Mary Anna King · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." -- Peter BalakianIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words,... |
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Binge
Tyler Oakley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media.... |
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Salty & Saucy Maine: Sea Stories from Castine
Hank Bracker · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback
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Salty & Saucy Maine - Sea Stories from Castine is the exciting story of Captain Hank Bracker's years at Maine Maritime Academy in historic Castine, Maine. This is a young man's coming-of-age book, written with no holds barred. |
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Michael Tisserand · Harpercollins
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged - and the deep secret he explored through his art.The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets... |
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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Sheila McCauley Keys · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero - "the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus." The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother... |
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Patricia Williams · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times "I know a lot of people... |
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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Louis Zamperini · Harpercollins
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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American hero Louis Zamperini shares his wisdom, values, lessons, secrets, and other insights gleaned from his remarkable experiences in this powerful and inspiring book.Louis Zamperini's struggle to survive the unimaginable - brought to life in his autobiography Devil at My Heels and in Laura... |
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Isabel Vincent · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 213
Format: Print book
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"I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book." - Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave,... |
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In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
KAREN KARBO · National Geographic Society
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine,... |
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The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future
Mason Inman · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since.Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell... |
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