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The Mountain: My Time on Everest
Ed Viesturs · Touchstone; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber... |
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40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
Howard G Buffett · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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With a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world,... |
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Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
Randi Zuckerberg · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover |
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With Dot Complicated Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement... |
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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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Harbor Island: Rock Point
Carla Neggers · Harlequin MIRA
Format: Hardcover |
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In this vivid and suspenseful addition to her widely acclaimed Sharpe & Donovan series, New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers takes readers on a heart-stopping journey from Boston to Ireland to the rocky coast of Maine Emma Sharpe, granddaughter of world-renowned art detective... |
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No Land's Man
Aasif Mandvi · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover |
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"It always bothered me that Aasif was more than merely funny-he's also a great actor. Now I've learned he's an amazing storyteller as well, and I am furious . . . but also grateful. Aasif's movement between cultures and genres is what makes him and his story singularly... |
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Barefoot to Billionaire: Reflections on a Life's Work and a Promise to Cure Cancer
Jon Huntsman Sr. · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. has been very fortunate in life. The company he founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world,... |
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Pro Basketball's All-Time All-Stars: Across the Eras
Robert W. Cohen · Scarecrow Press
Format: Book |
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The history of the NBA has been filled with superstars, names known to fans and non-fans alike. But while comparisons between athletes who competed against each other face-to-face is a common occurrence in the sports world, it is not quite as easy to compare players from different eras.... |
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier - a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean... |
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The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV
Pete Crooks · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The pitch went like this Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating anglehis firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms.In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative... |
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The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
Robin Gaby Fisher · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover |
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It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head's astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001 - from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing... |
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