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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Adam Resnick · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being "euphorically antisocial" and "sick in the head," he allows us to plunge even... |
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Steven Spielberg: A Biography
Joseph McBride · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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In this full-scale, in-depth biography of Steven Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. With the same breadth of research and clarity of insight that characterized his acclaimed... |
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride's family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history as the first American... |
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whiteheads hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins. On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime... |
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Time for School, Charlie Brown
Maggie Testa · Simon Spotlight
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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It's a brand-new school year for Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read!It's almost time for the first day of school, but Charlie Brown can't stop worrying. Can he find the confidence to quit fretting and have a great year? After all, school is tons... |
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The Way We Were: Remembering Diana
Paul Burrell · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Burrell served Diana, Princess of Wales, as her faithful butler from 1987 until her death in 1997. He was much more than an employee: he was her right-hand man, confidant and friend. She described him as 'the only man she ever trusted.'As the world prepares for the official... |
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What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Elizabeth Benedict · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback
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In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter's story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one... |
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As Night Falls: A Novel
Jenny Milchman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Ruin Falls and Cover of Snow comes a breathless new novel of psychological suspense about a dark, twisted turn of events that could shatter a family - a read perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.Sandy Tremont has always tried... |
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