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KD: Kevin Durant's Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest
Marcus Thompson · Atria Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson delivers the definitive biography of one of the most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history - Kevin Durant. The NBA has never seen a player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry Bird wasn't as quick, Magic Johnson didn't... |
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Just Show Up: And Other Enduring Values from Baseball's Iron Man
Cal Ripken Jr. · Harper
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr.the 19-time All-Star, World-Series winning legend, American League MVP, and record holder who played 2,632 consecutive gamesoutlines eight rules for the game of baseball and life, drawn from the lessons he has learned on and off the field.Cal Ripken Jr. is a baseball... |
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy
J. Randy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous... |
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Darkness to Light: A Memoir
Lamar Odom · BenBella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there has never... |
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Lorene Cary · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Lorene Cary's grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew -- even their shared past.From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent "ladysitting" her now frail... |
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After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
Alice Marie Johnson · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West - an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope... |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Stephen Budiansky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived... |
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Play Hungry: The Making of a Baseball Player
Pete Rose · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be unbreakable. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine,... |
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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege.Born in late nineteenth-century Georgia, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. Their father was a member of the KKK; the older girls performed at rallies... |
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day... |
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Anthony Harkins · West Virginia University Press
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this... |
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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
Tim Bouverie · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War IIOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later... |
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The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them
Dean Kuipers · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan.Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow... |
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Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam
Stephen Coonts · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historianEvery war has its "bridge"--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's... |
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Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona
Walter R. Borneman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply personal and never-before-told account of one of America's darkest days, from the bestselling author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War.The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history. America's battleship fleet... |
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen · GoodKnight Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense... |
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The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico
Ian Volner · Abrams Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall" on the border between the US and Mexico, and Mexico was going to pay for it. A year and a half into his term, with only a few prototype segments erected,... |
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Hollywood Black
Donald Bogle · Running Press Adult
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The story opens in the silent film era, when white... |
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The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten: A Memoir
Joan Wheelis · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Crafted from slivers of reminiscence and reflection, Joan Wheelis's beautifully written memoir explores the intricacies of attachment and the perils of love and inevitable loss.We glimpse the author's childhood in San Francisco and her relationship with her distinguished psychoanalyst parents... |
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
Peter Houlahan · Counterpoint
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men -- led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian -- attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events... |
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
William Geroux · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy... |
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One Giant Leap: The Untold Story of How We Flew to the Moon
Charles Fishman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of The Wal-Mart Effect, Charles Fishman reveals the untold true story of the men and women charged with taking the United States to the Moon.President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United... |
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Lewis Dartnell · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speciesWhen we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving... |
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Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
Ray Lambert · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFORGETTABLE NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF D-DAYSeventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs of our time, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated... |
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