|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
|
|
John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen · Dutton
Format: Print book
|
|
The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused on the high-profile... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Between Them: Remembering My Parents
RICHARD FORD · Ecco
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Take This Man: A Memoir
Brando Skyhorse · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 One of NBC Newss 10 Best Latino Books of 2014 From PENHemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boys turbulent childhood growing... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
Kevin Brockmeier · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
|
|
At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether. Over the course... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
Karen Armstrong · New Harvest
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
|
|
St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Anchor
Format: Paperback
|
|
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Finding me : a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
Michelle Knight; Michelle Burford · Weinstein Books
Format: Print book : Biography : English : First editionView all editions and formats
|
|
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Real McCoy: My Half Century with the Cincinnati Reds
Hal McCoy · Orange Frazer Pr
Format: Print book
|
|
In a near-unprecedented sports writing career covering half a century (and more than 25,000 bylines), Hal McCoy crowns his own Hall of Fame career with a memoir of the Cincinnati Reds that is, by turns, brash, hilarious, and behind-the-scenes unusual. His is the storied franchise with an accent... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
Masha Gessen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
