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Facing the Music: My Story
Jennifer Knapp · Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jennifer Knapps meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian This is her storyof coming to Christ of building a career of admitting who she is and of how her faith remained strong through it allAt the top of her career... |
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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Adam Resnick · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people. While courageously admitting to being "euphorically antisocial" and "sick in the head," he allows us to plunge even... |
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American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton
Joan Barthel · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father... |
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The True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Betty Boles Ellison · McFarland
Format: Book
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This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. At times her judgment was faulty; in other instances it was brilliant. After her 1861 refurbishing of the Executive... |
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Greg King · St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later... |
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Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
Elizabeth Bard · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's... |
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Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter
Randall Balmer · Basic Books
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals, who responded to his open religiosity and his rejection of the moral... |
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Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
Mike Leach · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indianthe underdog whose success turned on being a tough resourceful ingenious fighter And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo the Apache warrior whose name is so symbolic... |
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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling · Crown Archetype
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey... |
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds... |
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Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life
Erin Wunker · Book Thug
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy") , Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's... |
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Box Girl: My Part Time Job as an Art Installation
Lilibet Snellings · Soft Skull Press,
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a "slash" to keep her head above water - a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. One night each week, Lilibet would go to The Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, don a pair of white boy shorts... |
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