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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy · Little
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Paula Byrne · Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode - a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Richard W. Etulain · University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American... |
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True Love
Jennifer Lopez · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In Jennifer Lopez's first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life's most defining periods - the transformative two-year journey of how, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her biggest fears, and ultimately emerged a stronger person... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Mary V Dearborn · Knopf
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. A revelatory... |
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Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Stanley G. Payne · University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nations long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen · Random House Inc
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Sands Hall · Counterpoint
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time... |
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Charles Campisi · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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This eye-opening, richly authentic memoir by the longest serving chief of NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau reveals what it's like to expose and put away the bad cops - so that they won't tarnish the majority who wear the uniform.Charles Campisi headed the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau from... |
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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line
Seamus O'Mahony · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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