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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.
From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner... |
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir
Jeannie Vanasco · Tin House Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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"It's hard to overstate the importance of this gorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking book, which tackles sexual violence and its aftermath while also articulating the singular pain of knowing -- or loving, or caring for, or having a history with -- one's rapist. Vanasco is whip-smart... |
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Origins of a Song: 202 true inspirations behind the world's greatest lyrics
Jake Grogan · Cider Mill Press
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover
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David Bowie, tired of the rock 'n roll Los Angeles lifestyle, picks up and moves to West Berlin. Sixteen-year-old Rod Stewart sneaks into a music festival and has a coming-of-age experience. Paul McCartney dreams of his deceased mother. The rest is music history. For lyricists and listeners... |
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Inside Out: A Memoir
Demi Moore · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships,... |
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Darkness to Light: A Memoir
Lamar Odom · BenBella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy.
"Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York... |
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What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
Mimi Lemay · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.
From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand... |
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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Jill Biden · Flatiron Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center. Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take... |
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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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Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being
Henning Mankell · Vintage
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have... |
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Kingpin: Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Richard Stratton · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants. Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish... |
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Long Way Home
Cameron Douglas · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.
Cameron... |
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Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
David S Brown · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 330
Format: Print book
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Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest... |
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