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Custer
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history.On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne... |
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Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son
MARY CARTER BISHOP · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a prizewinning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn't know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate.Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery. She had a secret... |
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Spelling It Like It Is
Tori Spelling · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE REALITY BEHIND REALITY TV HOLLYWOODS FAVORITE MOM-STAR TELLS IT LIKE IT IS Tori Spelling is the first to admit that the reality behind her popular television show, Tori Dean, isnt always real. Not even Star magazine could invent the true chaos that happens behind the scenes. Luckily,... |
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The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
Charles S. Sherman · Scribner
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered acatastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath As a young, ambitious rabbi at one of New York's... |
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When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
Addie Zierman · Convergent Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person’s faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye. Evangelical poster child Addie Zierman wore three bracelets asking what Jesus would do. She also... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen · Random House Inc
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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Latino Americanos: El legado de 500 años que dio forma a una nación
Ray Suarez · Celebra Trade
Format: Book
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EL LIBRO COMPLEMENTARIO DE LA CONOCIDA SERIE DOCUMENTAL DE PBS Latino americanos relata la rica y variada historia de los Latinos que han contribuido a darle forma a nuestra nación, y quienes se han convertido —con más de 50 millones de personas— en la minoría... |
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
Kayla Williams · W.W. Norton & Co
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Brian McGinty · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 259
Format: Print book
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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge -- the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi... |
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken,... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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Taking the Lead: Lessons from a Life in Motion
Derek Hough · William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Sometimes Ive taken home the trophy, sometimes Ive stumbled or tripped over my own feet. But every move Ive made has shaped me into the person I am today.Season after season, millions of fans tune into Dancing with the Stars to watch Derek Hough, the talented, consummate competitor whose... |
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