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Mud Season
Ellen Stimson · Center Point
Pages: 327
Format: Large Print Library Binding
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After a getaway in gorgeous rural Vermont -- its mountains ablaze in autumnal glory, its Main Streets quaint and welcoming -- Ellen Stimson and her family make up their minds even before they get back to St. Louis: "We're moving to Vermont!" The reality, they quickly learn,... |
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Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction
Tama Janowitz · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original "Lit Girl" and author of the era-defining Slaves of New York considers her life in and outside of New York City, from the heyday of the 1980s to her life today in a tiny upstate town that proves that fact is always stranger... |
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Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
Phoebe Hoban · New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 174
Format: Print book
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Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work and life,... |
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President Me: The America That's in My Head
Adam Carolla · !t
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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In President Me, Carolla shares his vision for a different, better America free from big issues like big government down to small problems like hotel alarm clock placement. Running on an anti-narcissism platform, President Carolla calls for a return to the values of an earlier time when... |
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A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Mary Elizabeth Williams · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death - and be restored to life.After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock.... |
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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
David Browne · Da Capo
Format: Print book
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More than five decades after they first came together and changed the sound of rock 'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands - a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations and paved the way for everything from the world of jam bands and the idea... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson · Farrar
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique... |
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Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Jim Newton · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Leon Panetta's first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including 16 years in the House of Representatives, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then "retired" to establish the Panetta... |
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 436
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of the Year In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son's regents and placed... |
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Clancys of queens
Tara Clancy · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited... |
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Stories of My Life
Katherine Paterson · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children's books.Told with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson's tales reveal details about her life from her childhood... |
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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Required reading from the founder of MuslimGirl.com - a harrowing and candid memoir about coming of age as a Muslim American in the wake of 9/11, during the never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual racism.At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home... |
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