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Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth
Margaret McLean · Forge
Pages: 367
Format: Print book
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns... |
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
George Prochnik · Other Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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Prochnik creates a nonfiction Bildungsroman of one of the twentieth century's most important humanist thinkers, while also telling an intimate story of his own youth, marriage and spiritual quest in Jerusalem.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom... |
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Mary Jane's Ghost: The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
Ted Gregory · University Of Iowa Press
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback
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Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary... |
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Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend
Michael Munn · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 317
Format: Print book
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Many stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. However, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed.... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers,... |
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So, Anyway...
John Cleese · Crown Archetype
Format: Kindle Edition
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In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of the landmark... |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
WILLIAM MCRAVEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Should be read by every leader in America...a book to inspire your children and grandchildren to become everything that they can." --Wall Street Journal"Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national... |
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
Ali Khan MD · PublicAffairs
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael E Kinsley · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that... |
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The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood
PAULA BYRNE · Harper Perennial
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrne's debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the world's most beloved authors.Originally published by Bloomsbury... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
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