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Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
Iris Apfel · Harper Design
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"Iris is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. She has four eyes in front and two eyes behind, and that's why she can see things in a round-about way. She flirts with us just enough to make us fall madly in love with her, as she once did to her beloved husband Carl. In the midst... |
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The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World
Anthony McCarten · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY... |
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Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Catherine Mayer · Henry Holt and Co.; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of WalesHe is one of the world's most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man. In this brilliant... |
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A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
Sarah Jensen · Backbeat Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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(Book) . ''A Perfect Union of Contrary Things'' is the authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan. Author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives unique insight into his history and career trajectory. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest... |
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously
Candace Cameron Bure · Zondervan
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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"The world has a way of defining you if you don't know who you are before you get out there." - Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in today's world, you know what it's like to feel pressure on all sides from clashing cultural expectations. How can you stay true to who God has uniquely... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England. |
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
Roy Wenzl · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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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.... |
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Untitled Memoir
STEPHEN CARTER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York... |
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Donna Seaman · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized... |
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Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life
Mary Jane Nealon · Graywolf Press; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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An unflinching memoir by a working nurseAs a child, Mary Jane Nealon dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing... |
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Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
James Donovan · Scribner
Pages: 443
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan - now nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling ... truly... |
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Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W Sears · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 884
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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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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