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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
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How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black... |
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Welcome to My Breakdown: A Memoir
Benilde Little · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonfiction, a "momoir" about her own journey caring for aging parents, raising children, being married, plunging to the depths of depression, and climbing her way out.My mother was gone. I never... |
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The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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From the author of "In the Country of Men, "a" "Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father s disappearance. When Hisham... |
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Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir
John Galvin USA · University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man without peer among living generals. In Fighting the Cold War A Soldiers Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and statesman... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.My Own Words is a selection... |
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Under Minnesota Skies: John and Dorothy Hondl Family History and Farm Memories
Bernadette Hondl Thomasy · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
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Under Minnesota Skies is a lively telling of stories from several generations and a memoir of three daughters growing up on a farm near Owatonna, Minnesota in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Inspired by their father's love for the 394-acre farm that has been in the family for more than a century,... |
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Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage
Iva?n Castro · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper's post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro's life as well.... |
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Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools
Peter Markus · Dzanc Books
Pages: 184
Format: Print book
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For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools. As a teaching artist with Detroit's longest enduring literary non-profit - InsideOut Literary Arts Project - Markus has inspired... |
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Daring: My Passages: A Memoir
Gail Sheehy · William Morrow
Format: Kindle Edition
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Library Journal09/15/2014
Sheehy's newest title alludes to her series of best-selling psychology books (Passages; Passages in Caregiving), however, as a memoir, it departs from the others by recalling some of the major turning points of the author's life. An award-winning journalist... |
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Anyone Who's Anyone: The Astonishing Celebrity Interviews, 1987-2017
George Wayne · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From former Vanity Fair magazine's celebrity interviewer George Wayne comes a collection of piquant, poignant, and nostalgic interviews with some of the iconic personalities of our time, curated from his legendary magazine career.The man behind some of the most notorious celebrity interviews,... |
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
LESLIE PEIRCE · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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