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The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Kushanava Choudhury · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful, entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a new literary voice.Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta.When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway... |
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Unmasked
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Published to coincide with his seventieth birthday, a memoir by revered, award-winning composer, producer, and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in the history of theater, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita. In Unmasked, internationally acclaimed composer... |
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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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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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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction by Gillian FlynnAfterword by Patton OswaltA masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating... |
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stéphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled... |
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The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
Nell Stevens · Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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History meets memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years apartIn 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work: the biography of her dear... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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William Howard Taft.
Lapham Lewis H.; Blum John M. · Times Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders' vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United... |
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Fashion Climbing
BILL CUNNINGHAM · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings... |
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The Incredible True Story of Blondy Baruti: My Unlikely Journey from the Congo to Hollywood
Blondy Baruti · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The inspirational and true rags-to-riches story of how one young boy made it from the war-torn Congolese jungles to America and onto the silver screen, all the while facing extraordinary trials and twists of fate with an unwavering faith and unflagging spirit.Blondy Baruti's boyhood in the Democratic... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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