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18 and Life on Skid Row
Sebastian Bach · HarperCollins Publishers 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records... |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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Nobody's Son: A Memoir
Mark Slouka · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down," Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist... |
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Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
David Kaczynski · Duke University Press, 2016.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?" He couldn't be, David thought. But as the couple pored over the Unabomber's seventy-eight-page manifesto, David couldn't rule out the possibility. It slowly... |
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Think Big: Overcoming Obstacles with Optimism
Jennifer Arnold MD · Howard Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Bestselling authors and stars of TLC's The Little Couple return with an inspirational book that encourages readers to reach for their dreams, no matter what obstacles they may face.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have faced some big challenges in their lives. On the way to becoming a preeminent... |
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A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
Stephanie Saldana · Sourcebooks
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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"Behind every dark moment, there is another hidden world. The trick is to hold out long enough to make it there."When American writer Stephanie Saldaña finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife... |
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Ladies Night at the Dreamland
Sonja Livingston · The University of Georgia Press
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory. The result is a series of essays that highlight lives as varied, troubled, and spirited as America itself. |
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The long shadow of small ghosts : murder and memory in an American city
Laura Tillman · Scribner
Format: Print book : English
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"In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of three young children by their parents in the border city of Brownsville, Texas,... |
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Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir
Lita Ford · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this long-awaited, emotionally powerful memoir, "HEAVY METAL'S LEADING FEMALE ROCKER" (Rolling Stone) opens up about the '70s and '80s music scene and her trailblazing life as the lead guitarist of the "pioneering band" (New York Times) the Runaways and her platinum-selling,... |
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Kevin Flynn · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes. For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating... |
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Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College
Caroline Kitchener · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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What really happens in the first year out of college? When Caroline Kitchener graduated from Princeton, she began shadowing four of her female classmates, interviewing them as they started to navigate the murky waters of post-collegiate life. Weaving together her own experience as a writer... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD · Ecco
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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