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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator – The Life of Florence Gould

SUSAN RONALD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris.Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris, aged eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability...
 
 
The Art of the Wasted Day

PATRICIA HAMPL · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A sharp and unconventional book - a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers." - Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue...
 
 
Love Warrior: A Memoir

Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

#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...
 
 
Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel

Alon Shaya · Knopf
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef . . . A moving, deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef...
 
 
Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal

Jonathan Green · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice. Drug dealers claimed...
 
 
Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir

Amy Thielen · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining - and back again - in search of her culinary roots Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York...
 
 
The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World

James Barron · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world's most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly...
 
 
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

REBECCA STOTT · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

A father-daughter story that tells of the author's experience growing up in a fundamentalist, separatist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk Rebecca Stott both adored and feared her father, Roger Stott, a high-ranking minister in the Brighton, England, branch...
 
 
James Wright: A Life in Poetry

Jonathan Blunk · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927-1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With...
 
 
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

DANIELLE ALLEN · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy. Michael Alexander Allen, baby cousin of an extended family, was first arrested at fifteen for an attempted carjacking. Tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen...
 
 
The Power of a Plant: A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools

STEPHEN RITZ · Rodale Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In The Power of a Plant, globally acclaimed teacher and self-proclaimed CEO (Chief Eternal Optimist) Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom.What...
 
 
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry...
 
 
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs

RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist...
 
 
Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir

Cree LeFavour · Grove Press
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover

"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."...
 
 
Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In

Anjali Kumar · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Anjali Kumar, a pragmatic lawyer for Google, was part of a rapidly growing population in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But when her daughter was born, she became compelled to find God--or at least some kind of enlightenment.Convinced that traditional religions were...