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Swing Time
Zadie Smith · Penguin Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Mistletoe Secret
Richard Paul Evans · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 306
Format: Print book |
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The master of the holiday novel presents the moving story of two people who brave loneliness and loss to find love.Dear Universe, Is anyone out there? Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal feelings, especially her overwhelming loneliness.... |
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman · Scribner
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till - a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black... |
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Just Getting Started
Tony Bennett · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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At ninety, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, including albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring artist has written his second book. In 2012's Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons... |
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Ruler of the Night
David Morrell · Mulholland Books
Pages: 352
Format: Book |
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Like David Morrell's previous De Quincey novels, "Ruler of the Night" blends fact and fiction to an exceptional degree, this time focusing on a real-life Victorian murder so startling that it changed the culture-in this case, the first murder on an English train. The brutality... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Print book |
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last... |
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Nest: A Thriller
TERRY GOODKIND · W W NORTON
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind reinvents the paranormal thriller with a provocative, page-turning walk among evil.
Kate Bishop is in a world of trouble.
In the wake of several inexplicable and brutal murders, Kate is thrust into a police... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of a young man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
Trevor Noah is one of the comedy world's brightest new voices, a light-footed but sharp-minded observer... |
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Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers
Leslie Bennetts · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.
Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died... |
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Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Kat Kinsman · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman. Feeling anxious? Can't sleep because your brain won't stop recycling thoughts?... |
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Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
Johnny Marr · Dey Street Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths. An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature... |
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Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Alexandra Zapruder · Twelve
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.
Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he began filming President Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963 that his home movie would change not only... |
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Scrappy Little Nobody
Anna Kendrick · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air,... |
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