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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
MINDY JOHNSON · Disney Editions
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings... |
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Reading Austen in America
Juliette Wells · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never... |
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The Greeks Had a Word for It: Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without
Andrew Taylor · Transworld Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can't quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you're struggling to express there being just the right amount... |
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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"Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason." -- William Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly... |
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A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Barry Siegel
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A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this "masterfully depicted true-crime tale" (Publishers Weekly) . In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to fin |
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An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division
DALAI LAMA · William Morrow
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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In this brief, urgent "appeal to the world," His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses our time of division, calling on us to draw upon the innate goodness of our shared humanity to overcome the rancor, mistrust, and divisiveness that threaten world peace and sustainability. 　"I... |
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National... |
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Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide
Patrice Banks · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A do-it-herself guide to auto maintenance, roadside emergencies, and the real scoop on how women can get honest car service at the garage, from engineer turned auto mechanic and award-winning entrepreneur Patrice Banks.Do you feel lost when explaining your car problems to a mechanic? Do you panic... |
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
JENIFER LEWIS · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey from poverty... |
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Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir
Sally Quinn · Harper One
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The author, journalist, television reporter, and longtime Washington insider reflects on the spiritual quest that has brought deeper meaning to her life - and kept her grounded within the high-powered political world of Washington, D.C.'s elite - her renowned writing career, her celebrity... |
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Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom
GEORGE DOHRMANN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what... |
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Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
RAY PADGETT · Sterling
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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F You Very Much: Understanding the Culture of Rudeness--and What We Can Do About It
Danny Wallace · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Yes Man, a hilarious and pitch-perfect look at the rudeness that's all around us -- where it comes from, how it affects us, and what we can do about it"An astute, easily digestible guide to not being a jerk." --KirkusYou're not just imagining... |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Laurie Gwen Shapiro · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great... |
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Baking With Kafka
TOM GAULD · Drawn and Quarterly
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A best-of collection of literary humour cartoons from the critically-acclaimed Guardian cartoonistIn his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a "book-lover's cartoonist,"... |
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It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree
A J JACOBS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind."A.J.... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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