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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,... |
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee - Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essayChristine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form... |
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Alberto Manguel - Yale University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment... |
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The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'... |
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The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
Ron Howard - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben - these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the '60s and '70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving... |
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Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
Sharon Gless - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Anyone who has seen Sharon Gless act in Cagney and Lacey, Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and countless other shows and movies, knows that she's someone who gives every role her all. She holds nothing back in Apparently There Were Complaints, a hilarious, deeply personal memoir that spills... |
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Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet
James Whiteside - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, joyous, and inspiring memoir-in-essays from the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer-slash-drag queen-slash-pop star who's redefining what it means to be a man in balletThere's a mark on every stage around the world that signifies the center of its depth and width,... |
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Madonnaland: And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom
Alina Simone - University of Texas Press
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
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When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna - and her own ambivalence about, maybe... |
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