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Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Ripoff Artists
Frank Abagnale · Portfolio
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Frank Abagnale (whose life as a con man was depicted in the movie Catch Me If You Can) reveals the methods used by the world's most skillful con artists to steal billions of dollars each year from unsuspecting Americans--and teaches 5 simple rules that will help us protect our money.Former... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine... |
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Travel Light, Move Fast
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly... |
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul Strathern · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family -- a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners -- set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious... |
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Jill Grunenwald · Skyhorse
Pages: 360
Format: Book
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. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a men's minimum-security prison.... |
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When I Was White: A Memoir
Sarah Valentine · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed... |
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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Elissa Altman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
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Master the EMT Certification Exam
Peterson's · Peterson's
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Peterson's® Master™ the EMT Basic Certification Exam is a comprehensive source that offers the essential test prep needed to help readers score their best on the qualifying exam to become an emergency medical technician. This new edition covers all of the segment categories on the test... |
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Math: The Easy Way
Anthony Prindle · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a math class. Math: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn math the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include whole numbers,... |
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Tiny But Mighty: Kitten Lady's Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines
Hannah Shaw · Plume
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From Kitten Lady, the professional kitten rescuer, humane educator, animal advocate, and owner of the popular Instagram @kittenxlady comes the definitive book on saving the most vulnerable--and adorable--feline population: newborn kittens.Hannah Shaw, better known as Kitten Lady, has dedicated... |
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How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time
Will McCallum · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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An accessible guide to the changes we can all make - small and large - to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world's oceans It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. At our current... |
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,... |
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
Ben Folds · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs. Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The... |
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
Donna Freitas · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful memoir about a young woman's toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor, whose dark, stalking obsession altered her future forever.Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country... |
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Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English
Gyles Brandreth · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp... |
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Lawrence Weschler · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patientThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published... |
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
Judy Goldman · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
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 a newspaper... |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
Leah Price · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained... |
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