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Playing Against the House: The Dramatic World of an Undercover Union Organizer
James D Walsh · Scribner
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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Fascinating and groundbreaking: a talented young journalist goes undercover to work as a casino labor-union organizer in Florida in this rare, smart look at the ongoing struggle between the haves and the have-nots.Salting is a simple concept - get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were... |
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Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Guide to Finding Joy in Unexpected Places
Sam Chase · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 232
Format: eBook
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Enlightenment isn't a strange, mystical, or faraway place. It's a fundamental human experience available to us all in different ways and in different moments.Learn how the ancient philosophy of yoga, modern neuroscience, and positive psychology can help you discover your life's... |
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Van Gogh's Ear
Bernadette Murphy · Farrar
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The best-known and most sensational event in Vincent van Gogh's life is also the least understood. For more than a century, biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened on a December night in Arles have unearthed more questions than answers. Why would an artist... |
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The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
Meredith Maran · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a "lusty, kickass*" post-divorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60 - in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood.After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life's savings, and the collapse... |
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Listen, liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people
Thomas Frank · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics - a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats? It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections,... |
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The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK
JOHN R BOHRER · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,... |
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Acadiana Table: Cajun and Creole Home Cooking from the Heart of Louisiana
George Graham · Harvard Common Pr
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Grab a seat at Acadiana Table and explore a cuisine and culture filled with flavor.In this 125-recipe, beautifully photographed regional cookbook, Louisiana native George Graham welcomes home cooks and food lovers to the world of Cajun and Creole cooking. The Acadiana region of southwest... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times) .David Kushner grew up in the suburbs of Florida in the early... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired... |
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Hair Hacks: Your Tresses Troubles Solved!
Mary Boone · Capstone Press
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding
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Does your hair have a mind of its own? Frizz, fly-aways, and split ends be gone! Get the easy hair hacks you need to make every day a good hair day. |
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Shaler's Fish
Helen Macdonald · Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.
Pages: 78
Format: Print book
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Before Helen Macdonald chronicled the experience of adopting a goshawk in her bestselling book H Is for Hawk, she was a poet. With a masterful ear for musical phrasing as well as an utterly unique way of seeing the earth around her, she writes deft, daring verse; her language is melodic... |
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Nutrition For Dummies
Carol Ann Rinzler · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 401
Format: Print book
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Get the straight facts on nutrition, slim down, and feel great You've been hearing it since you were a kid: "You are what you eat." And this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining healthy weight and lifelong good health - no matter how you slice... |
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