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My (Part-Time) Paris Life
Lisa Anselmo · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in Lisa's life -- maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hadn't built a life of her own and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her mother... |
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Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home
Malachy Tallack · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From the northern wilds of Greenland and Scotland to the far away reaches of Scandinavia and Siberia, a moving meditation on the allure of travel and the meaning of home.The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches... |
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Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo · Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life beyond... |
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Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
Kyo Maclear · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life - a field guide to things small and significant.When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal... |
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Make Trouble
John Waters · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral, in part... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear · The Penguin Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure."? BOOKLIST (STARRED) In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Mary Elizabeth Williams · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death - and be restored to life.After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock.... |
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Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 395
Format: Print book
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From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone... |
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
Krista Halverson · Shakespeare And Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A copiously illustrated account of the famed Paris bookstore on its 65th anniversaryThis first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette... |
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission
Bob Drury · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight... |
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Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
Henry Hemming · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla) , he is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War - in spite... |
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The Hero's Body: A Memoir
William Giraldi · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith · Random House
Pages: 596
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look... |
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