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The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power
Jules Witcover · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American history. Acclaimed political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during... |
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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 Fixer: The Notorious Life of a Front-Page Bail Bondsman
Ira Judelson · Touchstone; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.With... |
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain · Liveright
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized... |
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Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Nnedi Okorafor · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.
Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed.... |
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
Ali Khan MD · PublicAffairs
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases - and the panic and corruption that make them worse
Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred... |
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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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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World "A... |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,... |
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The Warrior Code: 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
Tee Marie Hanible · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible comes the story of how she became a warrior...and how you can do it too. In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star and retired Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves... |
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Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
Claire Hoffman · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and '90s - a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When... |
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Frances Stroh · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist's struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great... |
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Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum
Sarah Forbes · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn't long before a part-time position at New York's MUSEUM OF SEX lead to a gig as the museum's... |
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Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary... |
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