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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
Susan Straight · Catapult
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before. In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert... |
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 241
Format: Print book
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When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo... |
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
James S. Liebman · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case... |
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The Story: A Reporter's Journey
Judith Miller · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Star reporter for the New York Times, the world's most powerful newspaper; foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir, she turns... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
DONNA GASBARRE KRISTINE HYLTON · Hachette Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal justice reform--she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women's March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) , and Rosario Dawson to ensure... |
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
Susan Ottaway · Little, Brown and Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War. When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering... |
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
REBECCA STOTT · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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A father-daughter story that tells of the author's experience growing up in a fundamentalist, separatist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller Ghostwalk
Rebecca Stott both adored and feared her father, Roger Stott, a high-ranking minister in the Brighton,... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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To Siri With Love: A Mother, her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed... |
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The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"
Jill Andres · Berkley, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. Picking a partner is life's most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages... |
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Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez
Jose Baez · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The unabridged, inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez ("The best defense lawyer in the country." - Sean Hannity) .
When renowned defense attorney... |
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