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Shadow on the Mountain: A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance and Hope
Shaker Jeffrey - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring memoir of a young Yazidi who served as a U.S. combat interpreter but was later forced to flee into the mountains of Iraq to avoid the ISIS slaughter of his peopleShaker Jeffrey's life has been an odyssey of courage, cunning, and desperation. His journey began as a fatherless... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
James Tobin - Simon & Schuster; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here, from James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, is the story of the greatest comeback in American political history, a saga long buried in half-truth, distortion and myth - Franklin Roosevelt's ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House.... |
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Madeleine Albright - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring... |
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My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story
Luisa Weiss - Viking Adult; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The Wednesday Chef cooks her heart out finds her way home and shares her recipes with usIt takes courage to turn your life upside down especially when everyone is telling you how lucky you are But sometimes what seems right can feel deeply wrong My Berlin Kitchen tells the story of how one thoroughly... |
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Ordinary Light: A memoir
Tracy K Smith - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book
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National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her "extraordinary range and ambition" (The New York Times Book Review) : a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race,... |
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