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The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera
Adam Begley · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer.A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris - a cohort that includes Victor... |
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Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day
Craig S Chapman · Regnery History
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover
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Battle-Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE-Day tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a 2nd Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander over the course of the Northern European Campaign. Craig Chapman delves... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour · Grove Press
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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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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Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey
Troylyn Ball · Dey Street
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Coulton, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys,... |
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB · Two Dollar Radio
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism... |
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In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
Tony Fletcher · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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Wilson Pickett was arguably the greatest male soul screamer of the 1960s and '70s. With a career spanning half a century, he sold millions of albums and tens of millions of singles, leaving a legacy of unforgettable hits, including "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1000 Dances,"... |
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Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America
Kate McCahill · Santa Fe Writer's Project
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
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Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women... |
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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Jed Perl · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved... |
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
KAPKA KASSABOVA · Graywolf Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." -- Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border... |
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The Jacksons: Legacy
The Jacksons · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The only official, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Jacksons' lives and careers, celebrating 50 years of one of the greatest acts of all time. The Jacksons: Legacy is the first official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. Unrivaled access to the family archives as well as the private... |
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Patricia Williams · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkably bold and inspiring story of crime, motherhood, and redemption - not since Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake has there been a memoir this unforgettable.You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black, and female? Ask any girl from any 'hood. You want to know what... |
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King of Clubs: The era of flamboyant gambling casinos
Frank Monastra · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 491
Format: Paperback
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"King of Clubs" is a profile of some of the most popular and famous illegal casinos that thrived and flourished in and around Cleveland, Ohio area during the 1930's until their demise in late 1940's. The casinos offered what the citizens of the rural towns wanted; poker,... |
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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
Sandra Marinella · New World Library
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella's pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true... |
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Prince Harry: The Inside Story
DUNCAN LARCOMBE · HarperCollins
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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** Now updated to cover Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement. **Prince Henry of Wales has emerged as the unexpected jewel in the crown of the modern British monarchy. Despite his unruly antics, for which he's made headlines all over the world, Harry has won the nation's admiration... |
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