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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Format: eBook
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One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim · Crown Pub
Pages: 291
Format: Print book
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland.... |
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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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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi · Penguin Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief... |
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At Least You're in Tuscany
Jennifer Criswell · Gemelli Press, LLC
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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When dream meets reality. . . Endless fields of flame-like poppies. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The sweet, rhythmic chime of church bells. Months upon months of unemployment? Struggling to communicate with locals? Duvets frozen on the clothesline? Jennifer Criswell's move from New York... |
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Charles M. Blow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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No Price too High: A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes Catholic
Alex Jones, Catholic deacon · Ignatius Press
Pages: 259
Format: Paperback
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Alex Jones was an "on-fire" Pentecostal minister in Detroit who was a completely dedicated shepherd of his flock. He greatly loved his people and they loved him. In seeking to give his flock the most genuine experience of the early Church prayer and worship services, he carefully... |
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A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-Century Winery
Craig Hall · Center Street
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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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... |
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