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Sometimes You Have to Cross When It Says Don't Walk: A Memoir of Breaking Barriers
LESLEY VISSER · BENBELLA BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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Lesley Visser is living proof that, no matter where you start, if you are motivated and passionate, your dreams can come true. When Lesley was 11, she told her mother that she wanted to be a sportswriter. The job didn't exist for women in 1964, but her mother - instead of suggesting... |
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We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
EJDionne Jr · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches, now including his farewell address, selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of Barack Obama's 27 greatest addresses: beginning with his 2002 speech opposing... |
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Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity
Iliza Shlesinger · Weinstein Books
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships."Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations... |
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
David B Woolner · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American... |
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Access All Areas: Stories from a Hard Rock Life
Scott Ian · Da Capo Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor, excess, fun, debauchery, food, booze, and mayhem from Scott's many years on the road... |
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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Mark Hasara · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday... |
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STAGE to STAGE: My Journey to Broadway
JOSH GROBAN · WEA
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Stage to Stage, My Journey To Broadway, is a 192 page hard cover coffee table book featuring energetic and intimate behind the scenes images. Stage to Stage captures Josh's perspective on the notable events that illuminated his extraordinary journey to Broadway. Starting with his Stages... |
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All the Money in the World
John Pearson · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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The story of J. Paul Getty and how his enormous wealth, $4 billion divided between nineteen heirs, wreaked havoc with the lives of his family. |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
Michael Korda · Liveright
Pages: 525
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
Les Standiford · Broadway Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors... |
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