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I Work At A Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 157
Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout... |
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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery... |
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Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Kristen Johnston · Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I could somehow stop, I’d still be screwed, because there’s no way I’d ever be able to figure out how to open those insane, cocaine-designed doors.”... |
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Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook
Dorie Greenspan · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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To the hundreds of thousands who follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, Dorie Greenspan's food is powerfully cookable - her recipes instant classics. In Everyday Dorie, she invites readers into her kitchen to savor the dishes that she makes all the time, from Miso-Glazed... |
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The Break
Marian Keyes · Michael Joseph
Pages: 569
Format: Paperback
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'Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks. Mercilessly funny' The Times Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back? 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?'... |
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Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 385
Format: Paperback
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Before she was a bestselling novelist, Maeve Binchy started out as a columnist for The Irish Times. Her articles - focused on the famous and the obscure alike - were filled with the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. From royal weddings... |
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Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
Nicole Hollander · Broadway; First Edition edition
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
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One of America’s funniest women asks, “If sixty is the new fifty, when do I get to be thirty again?”Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain age put on weight, got a really tight perm, and rode the backs of their house slippers into the ground. Oh,... |
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Richard Burton: Prince of Players
Michael Munn · Skyhorse
Pages: 260
Format: Print book
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From the depths of a small mining village in Wales to a star of Hollywood's silver screen, Richard Burton broke every rule in his quest for the American Dream. Burton made sure that he sipped the cup of life at its fullest. Twice married to Elizabeth Taylor, he is now revealed to have... |
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