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Little Failure: A Memoir
Gary Shteyngart - Random House of Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson - Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the ConfederacyHistory has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations.... |
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity... |
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Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Carmelo Anthony - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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For a long time, Carmelo Anthony's world wasn't any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family's first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He couldn't dream any bigger than emulating his big brothers and cousin,... |
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Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail
Caroline Clarke - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother - Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole - and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages... |
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The Little Book of Bob: Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat
James Bowen - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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"An international phenomenon" -Library JournalFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Street Cat Named Bob comes an uplifting book of wisdom and advice from the most street-savvy cat of them all.In spring of 2007, street busker James Bowen found an injured... |
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers... |
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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul Newman - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate... |
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Janis: Her Life and Music
Holly George-Warren - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white... |
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Michael J. Fox - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike... |
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