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If You Only Knew
M William Phelps · Pinnacle
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan"Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineWhen Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit,... |
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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash
Alexander Masters · Farrar
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Alexander Masters, the bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heapIn 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge.... |
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Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York
ROBERT WELDON WHALEN · Fordham University Press
Pages: 264
Format: eBook
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In 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they--dubbed "Murder Inc.," by New York World-Telegram reporter Harry Feeney--were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed... |
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Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss
MARTHA COOLEY · CATAPULT
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality.... |
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton · Random House
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring... |
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
J W Ocker · Countryman Press
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history -- the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- transformed it into... |
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Delta Lady: A Memoir
Rita Coolidge · Harpercollins
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs - Leon Russell wrote "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady" for her, Stephen Stills... |
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The Other Woman
Amina Pankey · 13th & Joan
Pages: 159
Format: Paperback
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There are at least two sides to every story. TV celebrity, singer, songwriter, mother and author Amina Pankey, known to the world as Amina Buddafly reveals the truth about life, heartbreak, loss and finding the strength within to overcome every obstacle with love. When the whole world labels... |
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Douglas Perry · Viking Adult
Format: Kindle Edition
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Publishers Weekly? 11/04/2013
Though he's now a revered as the lawman who helped bring down the Chicago Mob and Al Capone, Eliot Ness was all but forgotten by the time he died, virtually penniless, in 1957, at age 55. Ironically, a book touting his dramatic efforts would hit stores... |
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No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life
Chris Jericho · Da Capo Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Written in Chris Jericho's trademark style-jam-packed with ridiculous stories and hilarious references-No Is a Four Letter Word is organized around twenty-two principles on what it takes to make it to the top of your field, featuring stories from legends and influencers along the way. Whether... |
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Angelic Music: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica
Corey Mead · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A jewel of musical history - the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica - including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others) ; Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline... |
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Moranifesto
Caitlin Moran · Harper Perennial
Pages: 329
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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