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So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam
Karin Esterhammer · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave L.A. to start over in a most unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat,... |
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Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking
Jens Andersen · Yale University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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The first English‑language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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The Incest Diary
Anonymous · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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"In the fairy tales about father-daughter incest -- 'The Girl Without Hands,' 'Thousand Furs,' the original 'Cinderella,' 'Donkey Skin,' and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors -- the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by their... |
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
Elaine Pagels · Ecco
Pages: 244
Format: eBook
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New York Times bestsellerOne of PW's Best Books of the YearOne of Amazon's Best Books of the MonthWhy is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite · Dey Street Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants,... |
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story
PIETRO BARTOLO · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the man hailed as "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN) . For 25 years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds... |
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir
ALICE ANDERSON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is a deeply poignant memoir set in a post-Katrina Mississippi. Alice Anderson is returning to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home that she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, and their... |
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.
We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with... |
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Out of Idaho
Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival. They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic... |
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Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
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Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 507
Format: Print book
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An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime,... |
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Escape from Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
Michael Benson · ForeEdge
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade - two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude... |
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