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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
World Trade Press. - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. |
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The American: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
KHIZR KHAN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the American dream."Khan's aspirational memoir reminds us all why Americans should welcome newcomers from all lands." - Kirkus Reviews In fewer... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins,... |
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Eva Hagberg Fisher - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost - and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists,... |
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Peter Guralnick - Little
Format: Print book
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The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis... |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
Joe Urschel - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines... |
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
Brooke McAlary - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect... |
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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
Jill Biden - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the traditions, resilience, and love that built the Biden family, and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center.Growing up, Jill Biden wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' and a career. But her journey to fulfill those wishes would take unexpected... |
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South and West: From a Notebook
JOAN DIDION - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:... |
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29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
Cami Walker - Da Capo Lifelong Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated and depressed. Then she received an uncommon “prescription” from South African healer Mbali Creazzo: Give away 29 gifts... |
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Marrow: A Love Story
Elizabeth Lesser - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant - one the donor and one the recipient - begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.A mesmerizing and courageous... |
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On My Own
Diane Rehm - Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed "on her own," coping with... |
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended by NPR, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, New York Post, and Bustle A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered... |
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My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Lidia Bastianich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur--a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city... |
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother... |
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse - examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship,... |
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The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
Maude Julien - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, a memoir to be read in one breathless sitting that will leave you astonished by the courage and creative power of even the most neglected soul. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into... |
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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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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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What... |
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help... |
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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
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Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother
Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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From one of the country s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching... |
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Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of William and Kate and The Day Diana Died takes a compulsively readable look into the relationships and rivalries of Queen Elizabeth, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Kate Middleton.One has been famous longer... |
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner.
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir.... |
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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
Jan Morris
Format: Hardcover
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Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection. Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West) , Jan Morris has been dazzling readers... |
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Judy Goldman - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads... |
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If You Love Me
Maureen Cavanagh - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A mother's gripping memoir who suddenly finds herself on the front lines the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles substance abuse. |
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Hows Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
David Gregory - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this "thoughtful, introspective, and moving account" (The Washington Post) , former NBC news anchor David Gregory probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer important questions about who we want to be and what we believe.When David Gregory... |
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NYPD Green: A Memoir
Luke Waters - Touchstone, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In this gritty, sometimes hilarious, but always brutally honest memoir, Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective Luke Waters shares the darker and harder side of the police force that "will make you sit up, stay up, and keep reading" (Edward Conlon, author of Blue Blood)... |
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
SARAH KRASNOSTEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes... |
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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
KAYLEEN SCHAEFER - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A personal and sociological examination--and ultimately a celebration--of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern society"Text me when you get home." After joyful nights out together, female friends say this to one another as a way of cementing their love.... |
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I, Monster: Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words
Tom Philbin - Prometheus Books; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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What goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the "BTK Killer"), and others? In this chilling book, you’ll read exactly what they were thinking in their own words... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly... |
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The Witch of Lime Street: Sance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
David Jaher - Crown Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book
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History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also... |
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A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
Juliet Nicolson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable womenAll families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation... |
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Craig M. Mullaney - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"One of the most thoughtful and honest accounts ever written by a young Army officer confronting all the tests of life." -Bob Woodward In this surprise bestseller, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Airborne Ranger, and U. S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney recounts his unparalleled... |
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The Best of Us: A Memoir
JOYCE MAYNARD - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott) In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce... |
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Cuyahoga's Child: Growing Up in the Valley of the Crooked River
Jeffrey J Knowles - Orange Frazer Press
Format: Print book
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Jeff Knowles is a keen observer of people, places, and things. Both historical and heartwarming, he takes us on a journey through the forests, canals, classrooms, factories, homes, and ball fields of his home in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley. The journey is not without heartbreak and loss,... |
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My Life in Middlemarch
Rebecca Mead - Broadway Books
Format: Book
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal... |
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Misfortune on Clevelands Millionaires' Row
Alan F. Dutka - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book
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Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husbands hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country To escape financial embarrassment James Potter the manager... |
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All Happy Families: A Memoir
JEANNE MCCULLOCH - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding... |
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
ELIZABETH A SMART - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story -- about being heldin captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive -- with a powerful and inspiringbook about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's... |
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Where We Belong: Journeys That Show Us The Way
Hoda Kotb - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb - inspiring stories of people who find their life's purpose in unexpected ways, often surprising themselves and the ones they love.Most of us wonder what we're doing. We float around in the glass... |
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than... |
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Robin
Dave Itzkoff - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork &... |
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The Comfort Food Diaries
Emily Nunn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.One life-changing night, reeling from... |
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Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen
Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne, by the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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Its All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the Worlds Family Tree
A. J. Jacobs - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "Family of Humankind.".... |
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three... |
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
SHERYL SANDBERG - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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#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... |
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Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things Im Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A story-driven collection of essays on the twelve powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships, from the bestselling author of Glitter and Glue and The Middle Place "Kelly Corrigan takes on all the big, difficult questions here, with great warmth... |
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I... |
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Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
Frances Mayes - Crown; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes... |
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold - Crown
Format: Print book
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's... |
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Skip Hollandsworth - Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
Format: Print book
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin... |
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Legendary Locals of Cleveland
Thea Gallo Becker - Legendary Locals
Format: Paperback
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In 1796, when Gen. Moses Cleaveland founded the settlement on Lake Erie's shores that would become the city of Cleveland, he opened the way for many dynamic, visionary, and diverse individuals who would not only help Cleveland prosper as one of the greatest cities in the Midwest, but also... |
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BRAVE
ROSE MCGOWAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan... |
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My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
Tia Torres - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster... |
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco Press
Format: Print book
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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle... |
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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective... |
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I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
Robert Wagner - Viking
Format: Book
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Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.
In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise... |
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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Anne Boyd Rioux - W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!"?Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismConstance Fenimore Woolson... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949 These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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Untitled Memoir
STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York... |
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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
Carly Simon - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist.... |
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The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
Anne Fadiman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines -- with all her characteristic wit and feeling -- her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine -- along with a plummy... |
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.A Publisher's Weekly Best... |
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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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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
PETER MAYLE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife,... |
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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Chrissie Hynde - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness... |
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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated... |
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