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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root... |
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Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
Witold Rybczynski · Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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The Hero's Body: A Memoir
William Giraldi · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever... |
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
Elizabeth Greenwood · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 246
Format: Print book |
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A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn.Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find... |
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Dying to Wake Up: A Doctor's Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back
Rajiv Parti · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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A rare glimpse into heaven, hell, and previous lives - Dr. Rajiv Parti's near-death experience brought him on a journey through the afterworld, leading to a spiritual awakening that transformed his career, his lifestyle, and even his fundamental beliefs.Before his near-death experience,... |
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Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life--With a Soundtrack
Ben Greenman · Little A |
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What songs have made up your life's soundtrack? Which have captured your every mood and deepest sentiments? Pop music, like no other form of entertainment or art, is capable of articulating our feelings, desires, joy, and pain. In a few soul-grabbing minutes, artists from every genre... |
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Marked for Death: A History of the First War in the Air
James Hamilton-Paterson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly... |
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My First Life
Hugo ChaÃŒÂvez FriÃŒÂas · Verso Books
Pages: 544
Format: Print book |
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Hugo Chávez's extraordinary story - in his own words One of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century, Hugo Chávez was a military officer who became a left-wing revolutionary. This book tells the story of his life until the moment he was elected President... |
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