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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
Seamus O'Mahony · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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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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Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
Johnny Marr · Dey Street Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature sound he cofounded,... |
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run
Tyler Wetherall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of growing up on the run -- and what happens when it comes to a stop."Lucid, tender, exquisitely re-imagined, and compulsively readable." -- Jessica Nelson, author of If Only You People Could Follow Directions"In this wondrous and richly detailed coming of age story,... |
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
Tamara Shopsin · MCD
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world -- when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life." -- Miranda JulyIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara... |
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
RUTH FITZMAURICE · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe' are the friends... |
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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
Mark Woods · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national... |
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The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Graham Balfour, Sir · Palala Press
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright... |
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Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad
Terry Jennings · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Outlaw country music icon Waylon Jennings' son, Terry, provides an intimate and revealing look at the life and times of his father, on and off the stage.Born when Waylon was only nineteen years old, Terry grew up more like Waylon's brother. On the road together, they toured with legends... |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge UniversityBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times "A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent... |
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
DANIELLE ALLEN · Liveright
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison... |
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