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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
PIA DE JONG · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Pia de Jong's vivid memoir about her newborn daughter's battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery.On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam's old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed... |
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
MONICA HESSE · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena,... |
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Figures in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City
Robert Arthur King · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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A delightful collection of quirky faces, figures, and creatures that adorn New York City buildings. This gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs features more than two hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction... |
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Denene Millner · Agate
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood... |
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You Don't Look Your Age: And Other Fairy Tales
Sheila Nevins · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant book for any woman who wishes they had someone who would say to them, "This happened to me, learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don't get smarter as you get older, you get braver."Sheila Nevins is the best friend you never... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
Kate T Parker · Workman
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls... |
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The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield
KRIS PARONTO · Center Street
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Former Army Ranger Kris Paronto, a survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that was subject of the book and movie 13 Hours, provides powerful, motivational tools for surviving and thriving to bring readers discipline, motivation, success, and peace to life.... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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Understanding Trump
Newt Gingrich · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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With this book, Newt Gingrich provides insight and inspiration for Americans as they embrace their new president in office. Donald Trump is a remarkable phenomenon. He is the only person ever elected president without holding office or serving as a general. Trump and "Trumpism "... |
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Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero
Rock G Positano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life - candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field.Dr.... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden... |
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Good Grief: Heal Your Soul, Honor Your Loved Ones, and Learn to Live Again
THERESA CAPUTO · ATRIA BOOKS
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The star of TLC's Long Island Medium and New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered by Theresa's spiritual readings.After more than a decade... |
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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
Lilly Singh · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From actress, comedian, and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (aka ||Superwoman||) comes the definitive guide to being a bawse - a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they've fought through it all and made it out the other side.... |
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A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
John Aldridge · Weinstein Publishing
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown of the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented... |
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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Jancee Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers... |
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
Scaachi Koul · Picador
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share... |
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Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators
Guy Armstrong · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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If everything is empty, then what ceases in Nirvana and is born in rebirth? How can you live in the world without feeling trapped by it? Guy Armstrong tackles these questions and more in this richly informed, practical guide to emptiness for the meditator.It may seem odd for emptiness to serve... |
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father."Destined to be a classic. . .this year's must-read memoir." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club Father Greg... |
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported, riveting,... |
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