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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon · Gallery Books
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover
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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from... |
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Claire Harman · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing... |
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Lesley M M Blume · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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The making of Ernest Hemingway's"The Sun Also Rises, " the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town s infamous... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A New Life
James M Hutchisson · The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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To many, the life of Ernest Hemingway has taken on mythic proportions. From his romantic entanglements to his legendary bravado, the elements of Papa's persona have fascinated readers, turning Hemingway into such an outsized figure that it is almost impossible to imagine him as a real person.... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold,... |
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On Bowie
Rob Sheffield · Dey Street Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker · W W Norton
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On
Joni Foster · Red Raku Press
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback
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In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back... |
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The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt
Eric Burns · Pegasus Books, 2016.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most fascinating and written-about presidents in American history -- yet the most poignant tale about this larger-than-life man has never been told.More than a century has passed since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, but he still continues to fascinate.... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books
Pages: 263
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured... |
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Consequence: A Memoir
Eric Fair · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest... |
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Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Steve Jones · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Ask anyone who knows about music and they'll tell you: without Steve Jones, punk rock would not exist. This is not hyperbole. The prototypical street-urchin-turned-Sex-Pistols-guitarist was the inspiration for and creator of the punk movement, which started shaking the culture in late... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year... |
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