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The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour-and the
Sheila Weller · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists." --Vanity FairFor decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women - Diane Sawyer,... |
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Atheists in America
Melanie E. Brewster · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This collection features more than two dozen narratives by atheists from different backgrounds across the United States. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and religious upbringing, these individuals address deconversion, community building, parenting, and romantic relationships,... |
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty... |
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
Scott Tong · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace," the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more - it offered the opportunity... |
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Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston's Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A moving portrait of four lives that came together in a moment, proving that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to unexpectedly beautiful thingsAs Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about... |
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · Random House Inc
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That... |
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
Kate Germano · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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One woman's professional battle against systemic gender bias in the Marines and the lessons it holds for all of us.The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with... |
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Leila's Secret
Kooshyar Karimi · Penguin Random House Australia
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Born in a slum, Kooshyar Karimi transformed himself into an award-winning writer as well as a successful doctor, whose conscience won't let him turn away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending pregnancies that would see them stoned to death. One of those women... |
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I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
Brian Wilson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing.As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever... |
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Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak
Glenn Dixon · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Eat, Pray, Love meets The Rosie Project in this fresh, heartwarming memoir by a man who travels to Verona and volunteers to answer letters addressed to Shakespeare's Juliet, all in an attempt to heal his own heartbreak.When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona,... |
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The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir
Justin Hocking · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
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Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoirWinner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative NonfictionJustin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift-he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling... |
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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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Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
Lynn Thomson · House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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A mother’s memoir about raising a blended family, meditating on a different way of life, and bird-watching with her son, Yeats. Lynn is the mother of a blended family of four children. Birding with Yeats documents the five-year period when she and her youngest son start bird watching,... |
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
Meryl Comer · HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better... |
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