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Janis: Her Life and Music
Holly George-Warren · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.
Janis Joplin's first transgressive... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands · Basic Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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Blood: A Memoir
Allison Moorer · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through art
Mobile, Alabama, 1986. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn,... |
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Time Is Tight: An Autobiography
Booker T. Jones · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music.
From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While... |
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Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
Cassandra King Conroy · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figures of modern Southern literature.
Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced "Sunday wife"... |
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Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death
Michael Korda · Liveright
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while... |
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Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
Alexandra Jacobs · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway legend who became a heroine to a younger generation
Still Here is the first full telling of Elaine Stritch's life. Rollicking but intimate, it tracks one of Broadway's great personalities from her upbringing in Detroit during... |
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
Axton Betz-Hamilton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.
Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old,... |
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II - the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Visual History
Fred Rogers Productions · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A visual celebration of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, America's most beloved children's television show, including a foreword by Tom Hanks and a peek at the making of the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, in theaters Thanksgiving weekend.
Go behind the scenes... |
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Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
Andrew Roberts · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths--and weaknesses--shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon
Taking us from the French... |
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The Beautiful Ones
Prince · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time - featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.
Prince was a musical... |
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Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life
Twyla Tharp · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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One of the world's leading artists - a living legend - and bestselling author of The Creative Habit shares her secrets for harnessing vitality and finding purpose as you age. From insight to action, Keep It Moving is a guidebook for expanding one's possibilities over the course... |
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Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Diaz · Algonquin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." - Julia Alvarez
Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto... |
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
S. C. Gwynne · Scribner
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that... |
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The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
Toni Natalie · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called "Hollywood Sex Cult" NXIVM chronicling the rise of enigmatic cult leader, Keith Raniere, from its "Patient Zero," his former girlfriend and test subject for his coercive control techniques.
Many have heard... |
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Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
Amanda Yates Garcia · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting, mystical memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft.
An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates... |
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The Unique States of America
Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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From the tiny gold-rush town of Chicken, Alaska to Las Vegas' dazzling Neon Museum and Maryland's famous blue crab, Lonely Planet's Unique States of America takes you on a journey across the 50 states to discover the country's most iconic - and unique - destinations and experiences. ... |
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
Jeannie Vanasco · Tin House Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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"It's hard to overstate the importance of this gorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking book, which tackles sexual violence and its aftermath while also articulating the singular pain of knowing -- or loving, or caring for, or having a history with -- one's rapist. Vanasco is whip-smart... |
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Gail Collins · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist.
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship... |
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Dad's Maybe Book
Tim O'Brien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow,... |
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God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
Kathy Iandoli · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars.
Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop to Shea Serrano's The Rap Yearbook, focuses primarily... |
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