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Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood
J. Michael Straczynski · Harper Voyager
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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With an introduction by Neil Gaiman! In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Marvel's Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family... |
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Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
John C. McManus · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die
"This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be." - James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
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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... |
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
Ben Folds · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs.
"A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell."... |
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Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket
Fraser MacDonald · PublicAffairs
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick
Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters... |
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show
Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.
The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine
"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times
** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New... |
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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
Edward Posnett · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects
In this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown,... |
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Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World
Anthony Lambert · White Lion Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled.... |
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Weijian Shan · Wiley
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.
Shan,... |
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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
Cathryn J. Prince · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan... |
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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
James Grant · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds -- banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist. During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot.... |
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Dan Albert · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers,... |
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A Short History of Seafaring
Brian Lavery · DK
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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For more than 5,000 years, the sea has challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it.
This history of the sea and sailing tells the remarkable story of those individuals--whether they lived to tell the tale themselves or not.
From the early... |
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Dottir: My Journey to Becoming a Two-Time CrossFit Games Champion
Katrin Davidsdottir · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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This is a memoir by two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir. Dottir is two-time consecutive CrossFit Games Champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of "Fittest Woman on Earth"... |
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Rocking Toward a Free World: When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov
Andras Simonyi · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned diplomat and musician András Simonyi -- whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who can shred a mean guitar!" -- comes a timely and revealing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain and longing for freedom while chasing the great power of rock... |
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
Daniel C. Guiet · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.
When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family... |
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The Plateau
Maggie Paxson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?
In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds... |
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
Susan Straight · Catapult
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before. In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert... |
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Mid-Century Ads
Jim Heimann · Taschen; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mad for ads: Advertising for the Space Age Gleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the “Big Idea.” From the height of American consumerism, bold and colorful campaigns paint a fascinating... |
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Hurricanes: A Memoir
Rick Ross · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.
Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now,... |
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
A. N. Wilson · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.
For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height... |
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Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They've Ever Made
Russell Canan · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases - Law and Order from behind the bench - including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy - all they have to do is to present the evidence and make... |
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
Tom Phelan · Gallery Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s.
Tom Phelan, who was born... |
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