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Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Michael Broers · Pegasus Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Written with great energy and authority -- and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself -- the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored... |
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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Donna M Lucey · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency -- Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." -- Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder,... |
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
C. Nicole Mason · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life... So begins Born Bright, C. Nicole... |
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Raising Trump
NOT AVAILABLE. · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In Raising Trump, Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up.As her former husband takes his place as the 45th President of the United States,... |
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Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Sheila Kohler · Penguin Books
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." - The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." - PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only... |
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Reagan: American Icon
Iwan Morgan · I. B. Tauris & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Ronald Reagan is one of the most important -- and arguably most successful -- presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing... |
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Ronald Reagan Treasures
Randy Roberts · Thunder Bay Pr, 2015.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Known as "Ronnie" to friends and family, this iconic president couldn't help but make history with his every word. A larger-than-life hero to millions, his eternal optimism boosted American morale and ended the Cold War. From his earliest days as a radio announcer to public... |
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The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
Anna Whitelock · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover
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From the private world of a beloved English queen, a story of intimacy, royalty, espionage, rumor, and subterfugeQueen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the favored... |
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My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry
Philip Levine · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth... |
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Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Laura Caldwell · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions.Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity.... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Cat Marnell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph) , a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor... |
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