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STANLEY HAYAMI
Stanley Kunio Hayami · BRICKTOWER
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Stanley Hayami was sixteen when he was sent to Heart Mountain, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. He kept a diary of his life in the camps, augmented with sketches and drawings. In 1944, like many young Nisei men, he was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental... |
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Watch Me: A Memoir
Anjelica Huston · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Following her extraordinary Vanity Fair, evocative The New York Times, magically beautiful The Boston Globe, gorgeously written O, The Oprah Magazine coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom,... |
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin · Doubleday
Pages: 371
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress... |
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How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
Bob Mankoff · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
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Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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My Father Before Me: A Memoir
Chris Forhan · Scribner
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick Flynn)... |
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Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World
Tim Sultan · Random House
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world - and the mercurial,... |
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The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
Roger Rosenblatt · Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs... |
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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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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
Martin Dugard · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of historys most famous explorerswith infusions of insight and enthusiasm Publishers Weekly, starred review. In 1856, two intrepid adventurers,... |
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So That Happened: A Memoir
Jon Cryer · New American Library
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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If it can happen in show business, it's happened to Jon Cryer. Now he's opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood.In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald's... |
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
John R Bruning · Hachette Books
Pages: 523
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery... |
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