|
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Linda Tirado · Putnam Pages: 195 Format: Book
|
One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 - Esquire"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would... |
|
|
|
|
|
The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Richard W. Etulain · University of Oklahoma Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening
Chloe Schwenke · Red Hen Press Pages: 260 Format: Paperback
|
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 -- and still... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980
Craig Shirley · Broadside Books Pages: 448 Format: Print book
|
With a Foreword by Jon MeachamNew York Times bestselling biographer Craig Shirley charts Ronald Reagan's astonishing rise from the ashes of his lost 1976 presidential bid to overwhelming victory in 1980. American conservatism - and the nation itself - would never be the same.In 1976,... |
|
|
|
|
|
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
|
In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long... |
|
|
|
|
|
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
Adam Selzer · Skyhorse Publishing Pages: 472 Format: Hardcover
|
America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America's... |
|
|
|
|
|
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan · Scribner Format: Hardcover
|
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
|
|
|
|
|
Leila's Secret
Kooshyar Karimi · Penguin Random House Australia Pages: 304 Format: Paperback
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again
Teresa Giudice · Gallery Books Pages: 261 Format: Print book
|
The star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and three-time New York Times bestselling author offers a behind-the-scenes look at life in prison, her marriage, her rise to fame, the importance of her family, and the reality TV franchise that made her a household name in her explosive and ultimately... |
|
|
|
|
|
To Siri With Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman · HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 228 Format: Hardcover
|
From the author of the viral New York Times piece ''To Siri with Love'' comes a collection of touching and hilarious stories about a 13-year-old autistic boy and his intimate relationship with Apple's automated personal assistant, Siri.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple's... |
|
|
|
|
|
Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press Pages: 258 Format: Print book
|
New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's... |
|
|
|
|
|
The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Dee Williams · Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Pages: 288 Format: Print book
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER · Atria Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
|
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... |
|
|
|
|
|
Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Elisha Cooper · Pantheon Pages: 146 Format: Print book
|
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoe s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment,... |
|
|
|
|