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Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir
Jake Shears · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Patti Smith's Just Kids, and Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the lead singer of the multiplatinum-selling band Scissor Sisters explores his evolution as a young artist: coming of age in the Pacific Northwest... |
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The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey through Pearl Harbor and the World of War
Jim Downing · NavPress
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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War is uncomfortable for Christians, and worldwide war is unfamiliar for today's generations. Jim Downing reflects on his illustrious military career, including his experience during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to show how we can be people of faith during troubled times.The natural... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson · Little
Pages: 15
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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Can You Tolerate This?
Ashleigh Young · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling - and already prizewinning - collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body. Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal... |
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
GARY GIDDINS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 736
Format: Hardcover
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"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark... |
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Aldon D Morris · University of California Press,
Pages: 282
Format: Print book
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In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris's ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed,... |
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Roles and Missions
Merrill A McPeak · Lost Wingman Press
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback
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ROLES AND MISSIONS is the final installment of the most comprehensive memoir ever produced by one of America s service chiefs, offering deep insights into what it takes to get the job then, how to do it, once you get it. Previously, HANGAR FLYING was about fighter aviation in the 1960s,... |
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
Chesley B Sullenberger · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks - the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving... |
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Janny Scott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money... |
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Queen Unseen
Peter Hince · John Blake
Pages: 273
Format: Book
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For more than a decade, Peter Hince worked alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and heading up their road crew. Here he recalls the highlights of those years. He was with Freddie Mercury when he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love;"... |
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RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream
Jerry Oppenheimer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer comes a sensational biography of the son of the legendary Senator and troubled standard bearer of America's most fabled political dynasty. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin... |
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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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You're Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays
Allison Gruber · George Braziller Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A brazenly funny, poignant memoir. This gutsy collection offers a brilliant reflection on life as a young lesbian and breast cancer survivor. Through discussions of madness, religion, gender and feminism, Allison Gruber captivates with heartbreaking candor and wit. From her teenage... |
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