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The Wild Truth
Carine McCandless · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."-NPR.orgThe... |
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Robin
Dave Itzkoff · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning... |
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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner
Franny Moyle · Penguin Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting... |
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
Michelle Tea · Amethyst Editions
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
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"I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously, wickedly funny, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read." -- Melissa Febos, author of Abandon... |
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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana · Knopf
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime
Cutter Wood · Algonquin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes the facts aren't the only truth. When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest - her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car - and the residents... |
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Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone
Marky Ramone · Simon & Schuster Australia
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The inside story behind one of the most revered bands in music history during the early days of punk rock in New York, from legendary drummer Marky Ramone.Rolling Stone ranked the Ramones at #26 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time." They received a Grammy Lifetime... |
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In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
KATHRYN CASEY · William Morrow
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower... |
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Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
Linda Leavell · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2013A mesmerizing and essential biography of the modernist poet Marianne MooreThe Marianne Moore that survives in the popular imagination is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat; she lives with her mother until the latter’s... |
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Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Jane Roberts · I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Julie Manet, the daughter of Édouard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on November 14 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries, and it is hardly... |
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
John Szwed · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Published in celebration of Holiday's centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer's extraordinary musical talentWhen Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career... |
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Walking Point: From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Perry A Ulander · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing... |
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Pearl Cleage · Pocket Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit, but there was a time when such stellar success seemed like a dream. In this revelatory and deeply personal work,... |
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At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
Thich Nhat Hanh · Parallax Pr
Format: Print book
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This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking, inspiring, and enjoyable to read. Collected here for the first time, these stories span the author's life. There are stories from Thich Nhat Hanh's childhood... |
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