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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy · Picador USA
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black AmericansWhen Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will... |
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Call me American : a memoir
Abdi Nor Iftin · Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed... |
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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Getting Real
Gretchen Carlson · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.
Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic... |
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me
Brooke Shields · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,... |
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
Jean Edward Smith · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Christian Science Monitor St. Louis Post-DispatchIn his magisterial bestseller FDR, Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life... |
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First American Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory... |
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Leslie Helm · Chin Music Press Inc.; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback
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"A lovely, unsettling family story and a vivid traversal of modern Japanese history that will impress the jaded Japan scholar and inspire the curious general reader or memoir fan." — Library JournalHelm was the Tokyo correspondent for the Los Angeles Times when he realized... |
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Leaving Before the Rains Come
Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller
"One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing--oh my god the writing." --Entertainment Weekly
A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain.... |
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