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Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing
Bill Henderson · Pushcart Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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This is the story about an aging man who builds a holy place in his backyard. It involves bugs, lousy weather, cancer and spiritual waverings. Thus begins Bill Hendersons Cathedral An Illness and a Healing, a memoir about cancer and construction. On the face of it Cathedral is most akin... |
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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
Lean'tin L. Bracks · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social,... |
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Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines
Alfred Scott McLaren · Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold... |
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Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person
Janine Shepherd · Sounds True
Pages: 216
Format: Print book |
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"As I looked back over the landscape of my life, and the many setbacks I had endured, I saw that every loss also offered a gift, even if I didn't recognize it at the time. Whenever I was called upon to loosen my grip on some cherished part of my life, I was consequently given the opportunity... |
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The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa'ida
Flagg Miller · Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pages: 459
Format: Print book |
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In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped... |
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Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator
Minion K. C. Morrison · University of Arkansas Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book |
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed... |
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Louise Blanchard Bethune: America's First Female Professional Architect
Johanna Hays · McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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Louise Blanchard Bethune was the United States' first female professional architect. Bethune belonged to the influential group of pioneer architects--Daniel Burnham, John Root and Louis Sullivan--who supported her in becoming a fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In the booming... |
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Hunter Killer: Inside America's Unmanned Air War
T. Mark Mccurley · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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The first-ever inside look at the US military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program - equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoirRemotely piloted aircraft (RPA) , commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's... |
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How Did I Get Here?: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken
Jesse Browner · Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover |
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A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended?Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the Talking Heads classic song "Once in a Lifetime." Based on an essay he wrote... |
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Is You Okay?
GloZell Green · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A fun, inspiring memoir from "the Queen of YouTube" about her journey from anonymity in Florida to massive popularity on the Internet, filled with the unlikeliest of stories that are as poignant as they are hilarious"Is you okay? Is you good? Cuz I want to know!"Eager... |
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Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square
Randy Boyagoda · Image
Format: Hardcover |
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A brilliant biography of one of the intellectual mavericks of 20th Century Catholicism.     Richard John Neuhaus 1936-2009 was one of the most influential figures in American public life from the Civil Rights era to the War on Terror. His writing, activism, and connections to people... |
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Bowie: The Biography
Wendy Leigh · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Discover the man behind the myth in this new biography of one of the most pioneering and influential performers of our time - David Bowie.David Bowie - the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator - is a living legend. However, for the past... |
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