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Ghost songs : a memoir
Regina McBride · Tin House Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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A searingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir about a girl who begins to see her parents' ghosts after their tragic deaths.Eighteen-year-old Regina McBride is haunted by the ghosts of her parents. Her father visits her -- he is desperate, but she doesn't know how to help him. Her mother is a quiet... |
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Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart
Lisa Rogak · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media. In Angry Optimist, biographer Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to stardom. She follows... |
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Steven Lee Myers · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespearian fashion why he acts the way he does." -Robert D. Kaplan The New Tsar is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest... |
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A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Bruce J Hillman · ForeEdge
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered... |
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David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed
Gary Wilkerson · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of David Wilkerson, the man who believed against the odds that God could do great things in the rejected and ignored of New York City, who refused to give up on those on the streets even when they had given up on themselves, and who saw in the eyes of the drug addicts... |
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Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law
Alan Dershowitz · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story
Brenda Ashford · Anchor
Format: Book
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Brenda Ashford was a real-life Mary Poppins. Caring for over one hundred children during her lifetime as a nanny, her charges ranged from the pampered sons and daughters of grand estates or the tough offspring of WWII evacuees in London’s East End. Now, in A Spoonful of Sugar, Britain’s... |
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Communion Town: A City in Ten Chapters
Sam Thompson · Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens. Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's... |
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Wondering Who You Are: A Memoir
Sonya Lea · Tin House Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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In exploring her husband's traumatic brain injury and loss of memory, Sonya Lea has written a memoir that is both a powerful look at perseverance in the face of trauma and a surprising exploration into what lies beyond our fragile identities. In the twenty-third year of their marriage,... |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates · Ecco Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle... |
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The Removers: A Memoir
Andrew Meredith · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A dark, poignant, and emotionally brave coming-of-age memoir: the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.For almost twenty years I mistook my father's downfall as my own. But it wasn't. It was not my sister's either, nor my mother's.... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 564
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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The Italians
John Hooper · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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