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Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
Konrad Hugo Jarausch · Princeton University Press
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition -- but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under... |
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Debussy's Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque
Catherine Kautsky · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Claude Debussy's exquisite piano works have captivated generations with their dreamlike atmosphere and mysterious soundscapes.Written in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, the music creates a soundtrack for Parisians' enjoyment of such delights as clowns, mermaids, eccentric... |
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Anchorage PDMost of us have never heard... |
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The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Michael Kaye · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 565
Format: Hardcover
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Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade... |
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Secrets of a Soldier's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder
Shanna Hogan · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In Secrets of a Soldier's Wife, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan tells the true story of a young Marine wife whose illicit affair ended in tragedy. In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs
Beth Ricanati MD · She Writes Press
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread -- mixing and kneading, watching and waiting -- could heal your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed?... |
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What About the Rest of Your Life
Sung Yim · Perfect Day
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
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"In their soaring and urgent debut memoir, Sung Yim captures a sleepy sad slice of Americana recognizable to anyone who's driven past a strip mall at midnight. Equal parts grim and buoyant, here is an intimate portrait of trauma, family, addiction, and body. What About the Rest... |
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Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing
MICHELE R MCPHEE · ForeEdge
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In Maximum Harm, veteran investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee unravels the complex story behind the public facts of the Boston Marathon bombing. She examines the bombers' roots in Dagestan and Chechnya, their struggle to assimilate in America, and their growing hatred of the United... |
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One by One: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the Shadows of Opioid America
Nicholas Bush · Apollo Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer." -- The EconomistA... |
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The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
Gabriel García Márquez · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want... |
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Inside the Star Wars Empire: A Memoir
BILL KIMBERLIN · Lyons Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as "one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies." In reality though, he's a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century. Jurassic Park. Star Trek.... |
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