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Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
Heather Lanier - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.Like many women of her generation, Heather Lanier did everything by the book... |
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
William Doyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American... |
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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
Arthur Lubow - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs.Diane Arbus brings to life the full story... |
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"A beautifully... |
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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation
Jodie Patterson - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the story of a family's history and transformation. As an African American growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people, Jodie... |
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NO BLOOD IN THE TURNIP: Memoirs of a Codependent
Maple Sudds - Booklocker.com
Format: Paperback
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No Blood in the Turnip is a creative nonfiction narrative depicting the emotional struggles of an African American family based on codependency. Maple's story describes a journey of codependency that followed her from childhood through adulthood, and she shares intimate details about... |
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