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Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
Anna Lyndsey · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Arlene Alda · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." -President Bill Clinton"Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." -Barbara WaltersA touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's... |
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Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
Sarah Payne Stuart · Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Book
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A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers... |
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Cosby: His Life and Times
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy.Far from the gentle worlds... |
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Undercover brother.
Eddie Huang · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 218
Format: Print book
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"Fresh Off the Boat was Huang's story of growing up in his wild family as a first-generation Chinese-American in the comically hostile world of suburban America; a rejection of the typical narrative of assimilation, it was a rallying cry for cultural integrity. But as he entered adulthood... |
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God Is in the House: Congressional Testimonies of Faith
Virginia Foxx · Ensign Peak
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A very inspired and original compilation for this election year, "God Is in the House" is a collection of essays by members of Congress who reflect on their deep faith and how it guides them as legislators. The book was compiled by Representative Virginia Foxx who personally asked... |
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies
Tara Ison · Soft Skull Press
Format: Print book
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Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues... |
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... |
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
MARY S LOVELL · Pegasus Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family brings her trademark brio and relish to the charming and fascinating world of the Chteau de l'Horizon on the French RivieraThe Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked... |
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United... |
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An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius
Helen Smith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating biography of the most important English-language editor of the early twentieth century"I know you've made me." Some of the most illustrious writers of the early twentieth century would recognize and endorse the sentiments contained in Joseph Conrad's letter to his literary... |
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But Seriously
John McEnroe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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John McEnroe's long-awaited follow-up to his #1 bestseller He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after his international number-one... |
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book
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*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia... |
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