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Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Ian Frisch · Dey Street Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Neil Strauss' The Game and Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man's colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from around... |
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life.The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered... |
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk--a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk... |
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The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
Nick Barratt · Faber & Faber
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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"A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read." -- Dan Jones, author of The War of the RosesIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry... |
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Akiko Busch · Penguin Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's HOW TO DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed worldIn our increasingly networked... |
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Don't Let Me Down: A Memoir
Erin Hosier · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A fierce, vivid memoir about a father-daughter relationship steeped in God, rebellion, and the Beatles. Erin Hosier's coming-of-age was full of contradiction. Born into the turbulent 1970s, she was raised in rural Ohio by lapsed hippies who traded 1960s rock 'n' roll for 1950s-era Christian... |
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The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy
Michael Mewshaw · Counterpoint
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I've ever read." -- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America's poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such... |
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