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The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
MICHAEL FRANK - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual and eccentric Hollywood family."My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary," Michael Frank overhears his aunt say to his mother when he is a boy. "I wish he were mine."Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle... |
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When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier - a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean... |
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
Greg Renoff - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early yearsAfter years of playing gigs everywhere from suburban backyards to dive bars, Van Halen - led by frontman extraordinaire David Lee Roth and guitar virtuoso Edward Van Halen - had the songs, the swagger, and the talent... |
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Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City
Richard C. Lindberg - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This engrossing tale of gangs and organized criminality begins in the frontier saloons situated in the marshy flats of Chicago, the future world class city of Mid-continent. Gangland Chicago recounts the era of parlor gambling, commercialized vice districts continuing through the bloody... |
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Carolyn Porter - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II.Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle... |
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Wild and Precious Life
Deborah Ziegler - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Print book
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Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard - a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor - this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with... |
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Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
Samuel W Mitcham - Regnery History
Format: Print book
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At fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner worth over $1 million. And at forty years old, Nathan Bedford Forrest enlisted in a Tennessee... |
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Word for Word: A Memoir
Lilianna Lungina - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling sensation in Russia, where it was called “the most significant cultural event of the year,” Word for Word is nothing less than the story of a nation’s literary conscience—the history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a single person.... |
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Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America
Rand Paul - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Senator Rand Paul, leading national politician and likely contender for the 2016 Presidential bid, presents his vision for America.
In his four years since joining the Senate, Rand Paul has risen to the forefront of the national discussion. He's being called "the most interesting... |
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Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Brendan Wolfe - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to "cool" jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself... |
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The mayor of Mogadishu : a story of chaos and redemption in the ruins of Somalia
Andrew Harding - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud "Tarzan" Nur - an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler... |
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews,... |
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations
Seiji Ozawa - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered... |
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The Shepherd's View: Modern Photographs From an Ancient Landscape
James Rebanks - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a breathtaking book of photography and wisdom that chronicles an ancient way of living that deeply resonates in our modern world. With over eighty full color photographs The English Lake District comes into full focus:... |
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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"From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage" In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets... |
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Nadia Bolz-Weber - Convergent Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller | One of NPR's Best Books of 2015What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace todayAnd what if that's the pointIn Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising... |
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Hunter S Thompson - Summit Books
Format: Print book
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America, with all its warts, lies naked under the laser-like scrutiny of legendary outlaw journalist and brilliant reporter Hunter S. Thompson. Fearlessly, he hurls himself into each assignment, gouges out the truth, then returns with a fresh story no one else on earth could write. From... |
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The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers
Terry McDonell - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the legendary editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur: a memoir about writers, writing, editing--and the fast-paced, high-stakes life in the publishing business. Over the last four decades, Terry McDonell has been at the helm of some of the most influential beacons of American... |
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
Althea McDowell Altemus - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York... |
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May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion
Kassi Underwood - HarperOne
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, told with fierce honesty and surprising humor, a young woman goes on a journey of healing after abortion - a road trip across the United States with a diverse crew of spiritual teachers and a caravan of new friends.Nineteen years old, a thousand miles from her Kentucky... |
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Oprah Book Club September 2016
Unknown. - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah's Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel... |
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Thunderstruck
Erik Larson - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication. Their lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.... |
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The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
Ben Montgomery - CRP
Format: Print book
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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stashing explosives in spare tires, tracking Japanese troop movements, and smuggling maps of fortifications across enemy lines for Gen. Douglas... |
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Jo Malone: My Story
Jo Malone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance... |
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Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong: The Life and Times of Randy Newman
Caroline Stafford - Omnibus Press
Format: Print book
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The only biography of Randy Newman, master pop satirist and film composer.Randy Newman may be best known, today, for his wistful movie scores, with "You've Got a Friend in Me," from the Toy Story soundtrack leading the pack. He's been nominated for twenty Academy Awards,... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949 These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Jennifer Weiner - Atria Books
Format: Book
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"I'm mad Jennifer Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." - Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me? "A fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave book. I was spellbound from the first... |
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Bob Dylan: American Troubadour
Donald Brown - Scarecrow Press
Format: Print book
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Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music... |
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Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
Matthew Dennison - St. Martin's Press, 2015. 2014
Format: Print book
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"A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the triumph... |
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All at Sea: A Memoir
Decca Aitkenhead - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A beautifully written, breathtakingly honest, unsentimental, and profound memoir from one of the UK's most popular journalists. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water's... |
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Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him as one of the movement's most charismatic... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Nobody's Son: A Memoir
Mark Slouka - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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"There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down," Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past.Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist... |
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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
Steve Turner - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through... |
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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
Nicholas Fraser - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The life that inspired Evita, the major motion picture starring Madonna. The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being... |
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Unashamed
Lecrae Moore - B&H Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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"If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from theirrejection. " Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.... |
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Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Philippe Girard - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
Toussaint Louvertures life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) , the richest colony... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson
William Hazelgrove - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke in the fall of 1919, his wife, First Lady Edith Wilson, began to handle the day-to-day responsibilities of the Executive Office. Mrs. Wilson had had little formal education and had only been married to President Wilson for four... |
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The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
William J Mann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families - the Roosevelts - exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic... |
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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that... |
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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general,... |
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Chronicles, Volume 1
Bob Dylan - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Id come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else. So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles, Volume I, his remarkable, book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through... |
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United
Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak
Jonathan Cott - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer... |
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Eat, Drink and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife
Margo Howard - Harlequin
Format: Hardcover
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Despite her many years of offering relationship advice as a syndicated columnist—not to mention her pedigree as the daughter of the woman the world revered as Ann Landers— Margo Howard had to walk down the aisle four times before getting it right.Now the outspoken and witty Howard... |
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Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America
Stephen F. Knott - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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The true story of the friendship between founding fathers George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. From the American Revolution to the nations first tempestuous years, this history book tells the largely untold story of the men who built America from the ground up and changed US history.In... |
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
Chaya Deitsch - Schocken Books Inc
Format: Hardcover
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A heartfelt and inspiring personal account of a woman raised as a Lubavitcher Hasid who leaves that world without leaving the family that remains within it. Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn't belong in the Hasidic world into which she'd been born. She spent her teenage... |
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My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves
AGNES NIXON - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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From the Emmy-winning creator and writer of All My Children and One Life to Live, a memoir of her trailblazing rise to the top of the television industry, including behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most beloved soaps of all time Before there was Erica Kane, Adam... |
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
James McGrath Morris - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of one of the most significant yet least known figures of the civil rights era - pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, the "First Lady of the Black Press" - elevating her to her rightful place in history... |
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Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Kat Kinsman - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can't sleep because your brain won't stop recycling thoughts? Unable... |
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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner
Franny Moyle - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting... |
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams
Mark Ribowsky - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic... |
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The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer
Ray Pointer - McFarland
Format: Paperback
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The history of animated cartoons has for decades been dominated by the accomplishments of Walt Disney, giving the impression that he invented the medium. In reality, it was the work of several pioneers. Max Fleischer--inventor of the Rotoscope technique of tracing animation frame by frame... |
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Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon
John Lennon - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. And he made a point of living his adventurous life as openly as possible. Whether he was experimenting with LSD, Transcendental Meditation, primal therapy, macrobiotic diets, or recording... |
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American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business
Tommy Hilfiger - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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In this tale of grit and glamour, setbacks and comebacks, business and pop culture icon Tommy Hilfiger shares his extraordinary life story for the first time. Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left such an indelible mark on global... |
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In... |
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Exodus: A Memoir
Deborah Feldman - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg,... |
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Jack White: How He Built an Empire From the Blues
Nick Hasted - Overlook Press
Format: Print book
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The only biography of Jack White, widely considered the twenty-first century's most vital rock star. Jack White is the "coolest, weirdest, savviest rock star of our time" (The New York Times Magazine) . White is best known as the frontman for The White Stripes, where his guitar... |
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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs - Graywolf Press
Format: Print book
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A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane... |
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Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
David Leite - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria - a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite... |
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Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
Linda M. Heywood - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most... |
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We Have Your Daughter
Paula Woodward - Prospecta Press
Format: Hardcover
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In We Have Your Daughter:The Unsolved Murder of JonBent Ramsey Twenty Years Later, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Paula Woodward offers an unprecedented insider perspective on the twentieth anniversary of one of the most heinous, sensationalized, unsolved crimes in American... |
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Filthy Rich
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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The Light of the World: A Memoir
Elizabeth Alexander - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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A deeply resonant New York Times Bestselling memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander. In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling... |
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MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Walter R Borneman - Little
Format: Print book
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The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period... |
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Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir
Amy Thielen - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining - and back again - in search of her culinary roots Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York... |
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Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings: Library of America #277
Virgil Thomson - Library Of America
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America's greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic... |
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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Richard Holmes - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author's own story as a biographer with a history of the genre that reveals how it succeeds in telling both fiction and fact. In this chronicle of his lifelong... |
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The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu
Neill Lochery - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the longest-serving Prime Ministers of Israel. For much of the world, Netanyahu is a right-wing nationalist zealot; for many Israelis he is a centrist who is too soft on Arabs and backs down too easily in a fight. Love him or loathe him, Netanyahu has been at the very... |
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Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family
Diana Abu-Jaber - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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"Diana Abu-Jaber is the Ambassador of Big-Heartedness." -- Patrick Volk, on The Language of BaklavaOn one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other,... |
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According... |
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My
Julissa Arce - Center Street
Format: Print book
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For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American Dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir.When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven M D Hatch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished... |
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A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
Bruce J Hillman - ForeEdge
Format: Print book
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A frightening new plague. A medical mystery. A pioneering immunologist. In A Plague on All Our Houses, Dr. Bruce J. Hillman dissects the war of egos, money, academic power, and Hollywood clout that advanced AIDS research even as it compromised the career of the scientist who discovered... |
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
George Prochnik - Other Press
Format: Print book
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Prochnik creates a nonfiction Bildungsroman of one of the twentieth century's most important humanist thinkers, while also telling an intimate story of his own youth, marriage and spiritual quest in Jerusalem.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father... |
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UnDivided
Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Clancys of queens
Tara Clancy - Crown
Format: Print book
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Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited... |
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Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee - Ecco
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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Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
Mara Wilson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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""Growing up, I wanted to BE Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight."--Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City "Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking, Where Am I Now? reminds you that no matter how unique your life is, some things bind us all together."... |
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece
Andrew Levy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern... |
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Frida Kahlo at Home
Suzanne Barbezat - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.La Casa Azul, now one of the most visited museums in Mexico City, was the artist's birthplace and the home where she grew... |
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced... |
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Replacement Child
Judy L. Mandel - Seal Press
Format: eBook
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"Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel is a book I recommend to anyone curious about the true story of one family who was caught up in the tragedy of the second plane crash." - Judy Blume, from In the Unlikely EventJudy L. Mandel was born into a family crippled by grief.... |
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You'll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,... |
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Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson - Crown
Format: Print book
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A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah's Green River, Stphane Gerson's eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That same night, as darkness fell, Stphane huddled in a tent... |
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Love Warrior: A Memoir
Glennon Doyle Melton - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 SelectionThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel... |
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher - Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York... |
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The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America
Daniel Connolly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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18-year-old high school senior Isaias Ramos plays in a punk rock group called Los Psychosis and likes to sing along to songs by Björk and her old band, the Sugarcubes. He’s so bright that when his school’s quiz bowl goes on local TV, he acts as captain.
The... |
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison - Head of Zeus
Format: Print book
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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over 100 years. Yet how she achieved this is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the 23 'tales',... |
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James Hornfischer - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U. S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of America s preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer - Bantam
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country... |
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Born Both: An Intersex Life
Hida Viloria - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r... |
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Testimony
Robbie Robertson - Crown
Format: Print book
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On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last... |
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Moranifesto
Caitlin Moran - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces... |
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A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama
Michael D'Antonio - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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Barack Obama was once a most unlikely candidate, but his successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and the Great Recession had discouraged millions of Americans, Obama made a promise... |
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Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn
James Srodes - Counterpoint
Format: Print book
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Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty-first century woman in a nineteenth-century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria-Palestine. By the outbreak of World... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast... |
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Megan Marshall - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet - painfully shy and living out of public... |
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Familys Quest for Justice
Anthony Summers - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
Anna Pasternak - Ecco
Format: Print book
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya - the true tragedy behind the timeless classicWhen Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life... |
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
Will Bashor - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners... |
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Settle for More
Megyn Kelly - Harper
Format: Print book
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Click Here For the Autographed Copy
Anchor of the number one news show on cable, The Kelly File, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly writes her much anticipated book, a revealing and surprising memoir detailing her rise as one of the most respected journalists working today. From the values... |
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
Sarah Kaminsky - Doppelhouse Pr
Format: Print book
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Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and thrilling life as an expert forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the 20th century. Based on interviews and his recollections, the book reads... |
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Searching for booker wright.
Yvette Johnson - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal... |
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson - Plume Books
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read ... Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityA hilarious and timely essay collection... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election,... |
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle... |
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The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
James Barron - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world's most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly... |
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden."... |
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt... |
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of Americas greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant.... |
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Where Memory Leads: My Life
Saul Friedländer - Other Press
Format: Print book
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In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literature When Memory Comes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedlnder returns with WHEN... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the Empire of Signs
IGORT. - CHRONICLE
Format: Print book
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Japan is a place of special fascination for the acclaimed international comics creator Igort, who has visited and lived there more than 20 times, and worked in the country's manga industry for more than a decade. In this masterful new book - part graphic memoir, part cultural meditation... |
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
Joan Juliet Buck - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter... |
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