|
Words Without Music: A Memoir
Philip Glass · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The long-awaited memoir by "the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers" (New York Times).A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Shadow of My Father
John A. Gotti · Phoenix Media Productions Ltd.
Format: Print book
|
|
For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the Volcano is revealed for the first time. John A. Gotti... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ordinary Light: A memoir
Tracy K Smith · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 349
Format: Print book
|
|
National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her "extraordinary range and ambition" (The New York Times Book Review) : a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 410
Format: Print book
|
|
*Now a New York Times bestseller*Serial told Only Part of the Story ... In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black
Alan Light · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An illustrated biography of Johnny Cash that tells his life story through never-before-seen personal photographs and memorabilia from the Cash familyJohnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black is a Cash biography like no other. It reveals Cash's personal and professional life through... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Fashion Climbing
BILL CUNNINGHAM · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
Roy Wenzl · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named BTKfor bind them, torture them, kill themhe slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Advice for Future Corpses
Sallie Tisdale · Touchstone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A straightforward, wise, and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them by an author who brings a unique set of qualifications to this delicate subject - she's a Pushcart Prize-winning writer, a palliative care nurse with more than ten years of experience,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
BRAVE
ROSE MCGOWAN · HarperOne
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
