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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim · Crown Pub
Pages: 291
Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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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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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
JOHN HODGMAN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: eBook
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Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John... |
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Steven M. Gillon · Dutton
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of their decades-long friendship... |
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Hope: Entertainer of the Century
Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Revelatoryfascinating The New York Times The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes the persuasive case that he was the most important entertainer of the twentieth century. With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly... |
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A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History
Tim Grove · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
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For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider’s tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history.... |
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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West
John Taliaferro · Liveright
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. Hailed by the New York Times as "the father of American conservation," George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) , the Brooklyn-born son of a banker,... |
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are
Elaine Welteroth · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings... |
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The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets
Bart Moore-Gilbert · Random House Inc
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"I've always had difficulty imagining my father as a policeman. He seemed most himself in the informal setting of safari life, clothes disheveled, sometimes not shaving for days. So why did he join the Indian Police, with its rigid hierarchies and complex protocols?"Setting... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
KELLY SUNDBERG · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"It is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength, grace, generosity and beauty. That's precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence. Sundberg's honesty is astonishing, how she laid so much of herself... |
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