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Jesus: A Pilgrimage
James Martin - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD."James Martins riveting new meditation on Jesus is one of the best books Ive read in years - on any subject." - Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller and New York Times... |
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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"Im a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Nujood Alis childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York... |
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn - Audible Studios
Format: Hardcover
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An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful... |
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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda:... |
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My Story
Elizabeth Smart - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken... |
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Format: Hardcover
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HISTORY AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TOLD: TRUE AND THRILLING. Thomas Edison was a bad guy--and bad guys usually lose in the end. World War II radio host "Tokyo Rose" was branded as a traitor by the U.S. government and served time in prison. In reality, she was a hero to many.... |
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Mozart: A Life
Paul Johnson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his musicAs hes done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnsons focus is on the musicMozarts... |
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
Olivia Laing - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF LITERATURE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISM, AN ADDICTION THAT COST THEM PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND CAUSED HARM TO THOSE WHO LOVED THEMIn The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol... |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice... |
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history.... |
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Serial Killers
Seth H. Pulditor - n/a
Format: Hardcover
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These books will take readers deep into modern criminal minds and activities that profoundly affect our world. Read about the country's ongoing war on drugs, study the habits of the world's most dangerous terrorists, examine high-profile mass murder cases, ride the waves with modern-day... |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington foreverAndrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern... |
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me
Brooke Shields - Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,... |
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Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
Joachim C. Fest - Other Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the New York Times Books Review's 100 Notable Books of 2014!A portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stanceFew writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich... |
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Salinger
David Shields - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue privilege, J. D. Salinger sought out combat, surviving five bloody battles of World War II, and out of that crucible he created... |
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Scalia: A Court of One
Bruce Allen Murphy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative, deeply researched biography of the most controversial and outspoken Supreme Court justice of our time and how he chose to be "right" rather than influential.Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
Chesley B Sullenberger - William Morrow & Company
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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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan Hampton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known... |
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The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones
Sandra Tsing Loh - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book From an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" writer (Los Angeles Times) , a hilarious memoir of middle age. In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller... |
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
Eric Jager - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled... |
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Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road
Willie Nelson - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville,... |
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Face the Music: A Life Exposed
Paul Stanley - Fourth Estate
Format: Hardcover
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In Face the Music, Paul Stanley - the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS - reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking, funny, smart, inspirational story... |
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
Dave Pelzer - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The third volume in a trilogy that includes A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy, this inspirational memoir completes the journey of Dave Pelzer as he finally confronts his abusive parents and seeks to create an adulthood filled with love and acceptance. 125,000 first printing.... |
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So, Anyway...
John Cleese - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway ... ,... |
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Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
Don & Susie Van Ryn - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two families forever bound by tragedy describe the accident that claimed the lives of five Taylor University student and the shocking case of mistaken identity that occurred--a mix-up that led one girl to be buried under the wrong name and the only survivor in a coma cared for by the wrong... |
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Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, Father Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gangs in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.In his first... |
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Son of a Gun: A Memoir
Justin St. Germain - Random House
Format: Book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermathTombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie... |
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
RUTH FITZMAURICE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe'... |
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
Charlie LeDuff - Penguin Press; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity - from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
Valerie Lawson - Simon & Schuster; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback
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The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins. An arresting lifeLawson is superb at excavating the details. Library Journal The spellbinding stories of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical nanny, have been loved by generations. She flew into... |
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The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
Sheila E. - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the Grammy-nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who is world renowned for her contributions throughout the music industry, a moving memoir about the healing power of music and spiritual growth inspired by five decades of life and love on the stage.She was born Sheila Escovedo... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers - Berkley Pub Group
Format: Print book
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael E Kinsley - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What... |
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Marc N Peyser - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter... |
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Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Tanya Lee Stone - Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs... |
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Camille T Dungy - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely... |
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Wilson
A. Scott Berg - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“With the prescience that all truly great biographers possess, Berg discovered in Woodrow Wilson a figure who would understand Washington’s current state of affairs.”—Vanity Fair“A brilliant... |
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Shadow of My Father
John A. Gotti - Phoenix Media Productions Ltd.
Format: Print book
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For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the Volcano is revealed for the first time. John A. Gotti... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates - Alfred A. Knopf
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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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Tom Robbins - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels - including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce... |
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
EMILY JANE FOX - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. She's developed a personal relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric, Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured... |
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Encyclopedia of the Continental Congresses
Mark Grossman - Grey House Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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This 1,700-page, two-volume encyclopedia provides an in-depth look at the first Continental Congress in 1774, the second Continental Congress from 1775-1789, and the first Federal Congress in 1789. A product of over 25 years of research, this encyclopedia contains over 500 entries and is the first... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
David Herbert Donald - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"We Are Lincoln Men" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless... |
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Jung: A Biography
Deirdre Bair - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Deirdre Bair has written about some of the most influential figures in 20th century culture-Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Anas Nin. Now she turns her expert eye to the one person whose teachings and writings are the most influential of all: psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. The founder... |
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Last Words: A Memoir
George Carlin - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen HBO specials, five Grammys, and a critical... |
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Voyager: Travel Writings
Russell Banks - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas.Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half... |
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Elsewhere: A memoir
Richard Russo - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape.Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed... |
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My Father's Daughter: A Memoir
Tina Sinatra - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A startling and affectionate portrait of an American entertainment legend by his youngest daughter, who writes about the man and his life, and about the many people who surrounded him - wives, friends, lovers, users and sycophants. Frank Sinatra was adored, he was seen as a great lover... |
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My Salinger Year
Joanna Rakoff - Vintage
Format: Book
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Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At twenty-three, after leaving graduate... |
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The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
John W. Dean - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Encyclopedia of War Journalism 1807-2015
Mitchel P. Roth - Grey House Publishing Canada
Format: Hardcover
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Up-to-date through 2015, this new third edition (formerly titled the Historical Dictionary of War Journalism) examines the development, history and current state of war journalism. From the Mexican War in 1846 to the current Conflicts in the Middle East and everything in-between, this... |
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
Pat Conroy - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.Pat Conroys father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his sons life. The Marine Corps fighter... |
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You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age
Robert J. Wagner - Penguin Group USA
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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Claremont Boy: My New Hampshire Roots and the Gift of Memory
Joseph D. Steinfield - Bauhan
Format: Book
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In Claremont Boy:My New Hampshire Roots and the Gift of Memory, Joseph Steinfield shares humorous, insightful, and often poignant recollections spanning more than half a century. The author recalls what it was like to grow up as part of a small Jewish community in a New Hampshire mill town,... |
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
Hermione Lee - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW' S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle TimesWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most... |
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A Stolen Life: A Memoir
Jaycee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Jaycee Dugard's New York Times bestselling memoir chronicles her raw and powerful story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake... |
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Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
Sarah Payne Stuart - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Book
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A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers... |
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth Warren - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works -- and really doesn't -- in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become... |
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Robert L O'Connell - Random House
Format: Book
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National bestseller William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape - and the American character. America's first "celebrity"... |
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Bettyville: A Memoir
George Hodgman - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." - Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club"The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already... |
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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Vikram Chandra - Graywolf Press
Format: Book
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The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist In this extraordinary new book his first work of nonfiction... |
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Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Ellen Stimson - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An Endless Vacation Becomes a Way of Life! One vacation changed everything. Ellen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures... |
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Scribe: My Life in Sports
Bob Ryan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the quintessential American sportswriter. For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various... |
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Bettina Stangneth - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmannmdasha superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendtrsquos notion... |
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HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan Allen - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circleHillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent... |
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Not My Fathers Son: A Memoir
Alan Cumming - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Audie Award, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 Dark, painful memories can be like a cage. Or, in the case of Alan Cumming, they can be packed away in a box, stuck in the attic to be forgotten. Until one day the box explodes and all the memories flood back in horrible detail. Alan Cumming grew... |
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New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir
Gail Caldwell - Random House of Canada, Limited
Format: Book
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The Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let's Take the Long Way Home now gives us a stunning, exquisitely written memoir about a dramatic turning point in her life, which unexpectedly opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection. New Life,... |
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The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen
Adrian Havill - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades, the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert, religious family man, and father of six, sold top secret information to agents of the Soviet Union and Russia. A self-taught computer expert, Hansen often encrypted... |
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
Lisa Robinson - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,... |
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The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas: How a Cat Brought a Family the Gift of Love
Julia Romp - Plume
Format: Paperback
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The heart-warming true holiday story of a little boy and the cat that changed his life.. Julias nine-year-old son George was autistic. Quiet and withdrawn, he appeared lost in his own world. Then one day a small black-and-white stray cat appeared in her garden and Georges face lit up. George... |
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The Shepherd's View: Modern Photographs From an Ancient Landscape
James Rebanks - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a breathtaking book of photography and wisdom that chronicles an ancient way of living that deeply resonates in our modern world. With over eighty full color photographs The English Lake District comes into full focus:... |
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Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace
Jim Newton - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Leon Panetta's first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including 16 years in the House of Representatives, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then "retired" to establish the Panetta... |
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Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Nina Stibbe - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively... |
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My Two Italies
Joseph Luzzi - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, Beautiful Land, where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The SopranosThe child of Italian immigrants... |
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From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaperman
Harry Rosenfeld - Excelsior Editions
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second half of the turbulent twentieth century. After playing key roles at the Herald Tribune as it battled fiercely... |
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Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
Paul Downs - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their "You're the Boss" blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong. or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business,... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris - Crown Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the "u" back in "aUtobiography"? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration... |
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The Butler: A Witness to History
Wil Haygood - Atria / 37 INK; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars... |
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Nelson: Love and Fame
Edgar Vincent - Yale University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The story of Horatio Nelson's life - his naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. This biography of Nelson (1758-1805) presents an account of his climb to fame as well as the details... |
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Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
Matthew Parker - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the lush beauty of Jamaicas northern coast lies the true story of Ian Flemings iconic creation James Bond. For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand... |
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True Compass: A Memoir
Edward M Kennedy - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary... |
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIIIs right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henrys divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn,... |
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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Peter Baker - Doubleday; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating... |
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
CHRISSY METZ - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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A prescriptive and inspirational book of life lessons from the Emmy Award-nominee and breakout star of television's #1 hit show, NBC's This Is Us.Debuting in fall 2016, This Is Us quickly became America's most watched - and most talked about - network television show. Within weeks of its premier,... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi - Penguin Press
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... |
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