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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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The legendary actor and bestselling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden ageFor millions of movie lovers, no era in the history of Hollywood is more beloved than the period from the 1930s through the 1950s, the golden age of the studio system. Not only... |
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Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton
Diana Johnstone · CounterPunch Books
Pages: 193
Format: Print book
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United States wars are getting repetitive. Always the same old scenario. The mainstream media alert public opinion to the latest villain supposedly threatening to slaughter his own people . The U.S. does the job instead with its drones and missiles. The new villain is soon forgotten, but his country... |
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I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir
Kevin Sessums · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly... |
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press HC, The
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Colton H. Bryant grew up in Wyoming and never once wanted to leave it. Wyoming loved him and he loved it back. Two things helped Colton get through school and the neighbourhood bullies: his best friend Jake and his favourite mantra: Mind over matter -- which meant to him: if you don't... |
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
Chesley B Sullenberger · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks - the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 618
Format: Hardcover
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left... |
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Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues
Gary Noy · Heyday
Pages: 231
Format: Print book
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The Hidden History of High Country The Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Along with towering granite mountains, crystalline lakes, and spiky conifer forests, the Sierra is also home to tales so outlandish... |
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A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
William F Jr Buckley · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century's greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen In a half-century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique... |
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life... |
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "riveting"* international cloak-and-dagger epic, here is the stunning untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life -- including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo" -- that fueled his art and his undoing.In 2010, while... |
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A Work in Progress: A Memoir
Connor Franta · Keyword Pr Atria
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From award-winning vlogger and entrepreneur Connor Franta comes this collectible hardcover edition - complete with a brand-new bonus chapter - of his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Work in Progress, which was selected by Forbes as a Top 5 Breakthrough Book of 2015 and won the Goodreads... |
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Summer at Tiffany
Marjorie Hart · William Morrow; 1 edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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“Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan…. [She makes] the dilemmas of her own young life both compelling and contemporary.”—USA Today “[A] glorious once upon a time fairytale come true….I loved every moment!” —Adriana... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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