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The Rolling Stones: Kings of Rock 'n' Roll
Glenn Crouch · Carlton Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Lavishly illustrated with photos of the band and rare memorabilia, this unofficial publication tells the story of the biggest act in popular music: The Rolling Stones. For more than 50 years, the Rolling Stones have rocked the world - playing in front of 1,500,000 people, setting the record... |
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The Life of My Teacher: A Biography of Ling Kyabjé Rinpoché
Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The Dalai Lama tells the life story of his remarkable teacher, Ling Rinpoché, who remained a powerful anchor for him from childhood and into his emergence as a global spiritual leader.
The Sixth Ling Rinpoché (1903-83) was a towering figure in Tibetan Buddhism. Combining... |
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Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Son
MARY CARTER BISHOP · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a prizewinning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn't know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate. Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery.... |
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Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Timothy Denevi · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for itHunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless... |
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On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide
Ethan Mordden · Oxford University Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue
Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So Far
Real Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding."
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Spy Sites of Washington, DC: A Guide to the Capital Region's Secret History
Robert Wallace · Georgetown University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Washington, DC stands at the epicenter of world espionage. Mapping this history from the halls of government to tranquil suburban neighborhoods reveals scores of dead drops, covert meeting places, and secret facilities -- a constellation of clandestine sites unknown to even the most avid... |
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Billy Joel: America's Piano Man
Joshua S. Duchan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel's gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America's Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring... |
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I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
Mary Laura Philpott · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors - Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin - all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor." - Elisabeth Egan, The Washington Post
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SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke · Red Hen Press
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
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SELF-ish is a narrative drawn from an international life, beginning with some early glimpses out at the world by a girl in a boy's body. Chloe Schwenke was raised as Stephen in a Marine Corps family, and was sent off at age fourteen to "man-up" at a military academy. Later... |
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Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
Brad Gooch · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd... |
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Nirvana: The Teen Spirit of Rock
Chuck Crisafulli · Carlton Books
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the full story of the most important band of its era, accompanied by rare and fascinating photographs. Nirvana was the band that defined a generation - and its recordings continue to influence contemporary musicians and music lovers. Spawned in the intensely fertile Seattle grunge... |
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In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family
Fox Butterfield · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.
The United States currently... |
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