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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Richard Ratay · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Part pop history and part whimsical memoir in the spirit of National Lampoon's Vacation - Don't Make Me Pull Over! is a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips - a halcyon era that culminated in the latter part of the twentieth century, before portable DVD players, iPods,... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943,... |
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world,... |
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Folktales and Legends of the Middle West
Ted McClelland · Belt Publishing
Pages: 157
Format: Paperback
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America's first superheroes lived in the Midwest. There was Nanabozho, the Ojibway man-god who conquered the King of Fish, took control of the North Wind, and inspired Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. Paul Bunyan, the larger-than-life North Woods lumberjack, created Minnesota's 10,000... |
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
Karen Piper · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missilesThe China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware.... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought them, as Stephen Ambrose did for the grunts of WWII, and Michael Herr's classic Dispatches did for Vietnam.Almost 2.5 million Americans... |
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Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays
Kristi Coulter · MCD x FSG Originals
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency.When Kristi stopped drinking,... |
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Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir
Adam Cayton-Holland · Touchstone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Truth & Beauty - from one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch," a poignant tragicomic memoir about the author's beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking relationship with his younger sister and the depression that took... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
DAVID FRYE · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey... |
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Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives
Tim Burkett · Shambhala
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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Zen wisdom for identifying the causes of mental and emotional anxiety epidemic in today's world and for finding the path to a peaceful heart in the midst of them--a path that leads directly though the center of the anxiety we're trying to escape.Wrestling with fear doesn't have to be a negative... |
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat
Virgie Tovar · The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
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Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it -- and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry... |
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Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone
Marc Vetri · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Mastering Pizza is a revolutionary guide to making delicious pizza at home, offering a variety of base doughs so that your pizza will turn out perfect no matter what kind of oven or equipment you have.Pizza remains America's favorite food, but one that many people hesitate to make at home.... |
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A witty and profound portrait of the most talked-about English royalShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon... |
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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared
Jessica Honegger · WaterBrook
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The founder of the popular fair trade jewelry brand Noonday Collection shares her story of starting the rapid-growing business that impacts over 4,400 artisans in vulnerable communities across the globe and invites readers on a journey of transformation, challenging them to trade their... |
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