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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form... |
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario · The Penguin Press
Pages: 357
Format: Print book
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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What... |
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
WILLIAM J COOPER · Liveright
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father?Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) , has never basked in the historical spotlight.... |
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
JOHN MCPHEE · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined... |
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Word detective : searching for the meaning of it all at the oxford english dictionary
John Simpson · Basic Books
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions - and a great many more - can be found in the pages of the Oxford English... |
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Exodus: A Memoir
Deborah Feldman · Plume
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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The author of the explosive New York Times-bestselling memoir Unorthodox chronicles her continuing journey as a single mother, an independent woman, and a religious refugee. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman walked away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation... |
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Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone · Ballantine Books,
Pages: 428
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,... |
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Del Quentin Wilber · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 273
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives -- does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good... |
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American... |
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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
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Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
David Hugh Bunnell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal... |
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