|
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
Lisa F Smith · SelectBooks
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
|
|
Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Lisa Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest memoir of her descent into and recovery from high-functioning alcoholism and cocaine addiction. From the outside, Smith's professional, well-heeled life as a lawyer in a big New York City firm looked great,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Murder Behind the Badge: True Stories of Cops Who Kill
Stacy Dittrich · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Most men and women who aspire to be police officers begin their careers with a noble dream of community service, upholding the law, and helping those in need. Yet over time the rigors and emotional strain of dealing with society’s worst element wear on even the most idealistic officers... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
Megan Hustad · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in a post-Christian AmericaWhen Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross-cultural journey in the name of evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Donald Stratton · William Morrow
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
|
|
The extraordinary first and only memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona, published in conjunction with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor. An unforgettable and moving story of tragedy, heroism, resilience, and redemption that is sure to become an enduring document of American... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Giles Tremlett · Bloomsbury
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
|
|
In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) , a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Jean Cocteau: A Life
Claude Arnaud · Yale Univ Press
Pages: 1024
Format: Print book
|
|
This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Father Before Me: A Memoir
Chris Forhan · Scribner
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
|
|
An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn)... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany
Sigrid MacRae · Viking
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat—and a riveting tale of survival in wartime GermanySigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents’ intercontinental love... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
Kevin Brockmeier · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
|
|
At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether. Over the course... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
John A. Nagl · Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
|
|
"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Footsteps in the Snow
Charles Lachman · Berkley
Format: Book
|
|
NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARYIt was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history.Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois...1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
