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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
Mikita Brottman · Harper
Pages: 230
Format: Print book |
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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them - Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature... |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry · Harper
Pages: 340
Format: Print book |
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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There is life after college.
Jeffrey Selingo · William Morrow
Pages: 297
Format: Print book |
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From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating... |
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Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk
Tracey Brown · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly... |
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Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age
Jo Ann Jenkins · Public Affairs
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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"At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself." - Maya AngelouWe've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines - "50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP and author of Disrupt... |
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Time to Take Flight: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Safe Solo Travel
Jayne Seagrave · TouchWood Editions
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Take it from a friend who knows: "travel is not scary or difficult for the mature single woman. Confidence and planning are the keys."Rome, Chicago, London, Vienna, Berlin . . . best-selling author and entrepreneur Jayne Seagrave has traveled there, and she's done it solo.... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover |
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A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama... |
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Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
Juan Martinez · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath... |
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Toni Tennille: A Memoir
Toni Tennille · Natl Book Network, 2016.
Pages: 232
Format: Print book |
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Since bursting onto the scene in the mid '70s, the pop duo Captain and Tennille have long defined the sparkling, optimistic idea of everlasting love, both in their music and through their image as a happy and, seemingly, unbreakable couple. They were an irresistible pair to millions of fans... |
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A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Mary Elizabeth Williams · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death - and be restored to life.After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock.... |
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown... |
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X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?
Kathy Garver · Taylor Trade Pub, 2015.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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This enlightening book is the go-to guide for fans for biographical information, rare photos, and interesting trivia about their favorite child stars, shows, series, networks, and the times that defined the shows. Spanning forty years of television history, this book details both the success... |
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Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein · Harper
Pages: 303
Format: Print book |
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a groundbreaking picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their... |
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The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
Maggie Nelson · Graywolf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous... |
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Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian
Anthony Ervin · Akashic Books
Pages: 300
Format: Print book |
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"Here Ervin and swim trainer and journalist Markides combine talents to create a biography that is part first-hand narrative by Ervin, with Markides filling in the details and providing context. The formula works, pulling readers into Ervin's experience of the thrill of victory... |
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Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Amy Herman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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An engrossing guide to seeing - and communicating - more clearly from the groundbreaking course that helps FBI agents, cops, CEOs, ER docs, and others save money, reputations, and lives. How could looking at Monet's water lily paintings help save your company millions? How can checking... |
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Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss
Kenneth J Doka · Atria Books
Pages: 292
Format: Print book |
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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing journey. There is no one-size-fits-all way to cope with loss. The vital bonds that we form with those we love in life... |
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Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law
Katherine Wilson · Random House, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this enchantingly warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks... |
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