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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Cherríe Moraga · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, CherrÃe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother,... |
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Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter
Ty Pennington · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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As a kid, Ty Pennington had too much energy. He was chaotic, bouncing off the walls, and on a first-name basis with the local emergency room staff. Back then there wasn't public awareness of attention deficit disorder yet. People just thought Ty was rambunctious. A trouble maker. What do you do with... |
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Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher
David Cone · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential memoir for baseball fans everywhere. "There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher who said, 'I'm the man out here.'... |
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Memories Unleashed: Vietnam Legacy
Carl Rudolph Small · Casemate
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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This memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of short stories that convey the emotional and physical landscape of the Vietnam War. It is a window into the war from the perspective of the author, who served in a rapid response assault force, as 'the Marine.' The reader shares... |
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
Tyler Kepner · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of todayThe baseball is an amazing... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow · Twelve
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px... |
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Renegade Women in Film and TV
Elizabeth Weitzman · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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A charmingly illustrated and timely tribute to the women who broke glass ceilings in film and television, debuting during an historic time of change in the entertainment industry. Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, fascinating biographical profiles, and exclusive... |
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Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
Youssef Daoudi · First Second
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then -- quickly, before the spell breaks! -- play one of Monk's records." -- Saul Williams She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius... |
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Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir
Deborah Burns · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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"Devilishly sharp ... a masterful balance of psychological excavation and sumptuous description." -- Kirkus ReviewsAn only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy -- a red-haired beauty who looked... |
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Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of WWII
Philip Handleman · Regnery History
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Only 14 of the approximately 1,000 Tuskegee Airmen-the famed black aviators who fought in World War II-are still living today. This is the remarkable first-person account of one of those 14 men, Lt. Colonel Harry T. Stewart, Jr, who flew 43 combat missions in Italy - including one legendary... |
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The Sixth Man: A Memoir
Andre Iguodala · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the champion Golden State Warriors.Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors' third NBA championship in the last four years, his game has never been stronger.... |
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ELIZABETH WEIN · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat.... |
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Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Ash Carter · Dutton
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs... |
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The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II
JAMES LACEY · Bantam
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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A Team of Rivals for World War II - the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought... |
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WWE SmackDown 20 Years and Counting
Dean Miller · DK
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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Relive the greatest moments, biggest superstar debuts, and key matches of WWE SmackDownThis action-packed anniversary edition covers 20 years of WWE's popular blue brand-SmackDown. Spectacular full-color photographs from WWE's own archive capture the most unforgettable moments, both in the ring... |
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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England
Liza Picard · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court -- men and women who spent days... |
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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What really happened in 1969?Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their... |
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Leaders Who Changed History
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the lives of more than 85 of the world's most transformational and influential leaders in politics, business, religion, humanitarianism, and the military with this innovative and boldly graphic book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders Who Changed... |
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Definitely Hispanic: Growing Up Latino and Celebrating What Unites Us
LeJuan James · Atria Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Perfect for fans of Fresh Off the Boat's situational humor and Jane the Virgin's celebration of Latinidad, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective memoiristic essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James about growing up Hispanic in the US.LeJuan James... |
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
Elliot Ackerman · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria."War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names,... |
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
Ayaz Virji M.D. · Convergent Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to a small town and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage... |
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