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In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age."In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project... |
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
David Bellos · Farrar
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the world's most popular novelPutting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information... |
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Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last
Patience Bloom · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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Who knows the ins and outs of romance better than a Harlequin editor? A surprising and exhilarating look into Patience Bloom's unexpected real-life love story.At some point, we've all wished romance could be more like fiction. Patience Bloom certainly did, many times over. As a teen... |
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Untitled rob sheffield novel.
Robert J Sheffield · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known... |
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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Dee Williams · Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people... |
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones · Bloomsbury Press
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
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In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer... |
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Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written ... An absolute treasure." --Booklist (STARRED)In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced,... |
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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
John A. Nagl · Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable?"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this... |
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So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Barbara A Brenner · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 281
Format: Print book
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"What kind of cancer is it?" was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: "You don't need to know that." Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business... |
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD · Ecco
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
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From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
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Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
John Saunders · Da Capo Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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In Playing Hurt, a leading figure in the sports world-the quintessential "man's man," who seems to have it all-confesses his constant battle with depression. John Saunders welcomes readers into the heart of his desperate struggle through insights into the root causes of depression... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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