|
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles · Knopf
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
|
|
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
I Was a Child: A Memoir
Bruce Eric Kaplan · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
I Was a Child is an illustrated memoir by Bruce Eric Kaplan, the renowned New Yorker cartoonist. Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
|
|
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Finn Murphy · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A long-haul mover's rollicking account of life out on the Big Slab.More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he's covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Known by his trucker... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
John W. Dean · Viking
Pages: 746
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Based on Nixon's overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we've come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA'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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Pages: 242
Format: eBook
|
|
A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Allen Kurzweil · Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-Century Winery
Craig Hall · Center Street
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
|
|
A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
