|
Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Mistakes Were Made
Fiona Lewis - Regan Arts.
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Mistakes Were Made is a revealing memoir and unexpected love story from model and actress Fiona Lewis about her journey to self-acceptance as she restores a crumbling French chateau. Alone in the French countryside, Lewis reflects on her glamorous youth across London and Paris in the '60s,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
|
|
A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback
|
|
Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage
OTTILIE MULZET - Seagull Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Lszl Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Ben Greenman - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
|
|
A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jane Crow
Rosalind Rosenberg - Oxford University Press
Format: Illustrated Edition
|
|
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Bodies
Kimberly Rae Miller - Little A
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
|
|
FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
ROXANE GAY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Joel Golby - Anchor
Format: Paperback
|
|
By the popular Vice contributor, a collection of full-throated appreciations, elaborate theories, and unflinching recollectionsJoel Golby's writing for Vice and The Guardian, with its wry observation and naked self-reflection, has brought him a wide and devoted following. Now, in his first... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Kelly Sundberg - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
|
|
In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liars Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse - examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
When the Killer Man Comes: Eliminating Terrorists As a Special Operations Sniper
Paul Martinez - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The thrilling combat memoir by special operations sniper Paul Martinez, who spent seven years in Special Operations and was a sniper assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion.America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the 75th Ranger... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
|
|
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB - Two Dollar Radio
Format: Paperback
|
|
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
Manjula Martin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
|
|
A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors - from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen - on the realities of making a living in the writing world.In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
Elissa Altman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? It's the universal question that has defined mothers and daughters from Demeter and Persephone to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. "Wise, evocative, and rich... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
DARNELL L MOORE - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Scared Selfless: My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving
Michelle Stevens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
|
|
Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist - an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
|
|
At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Strange Beauty: A Portrait of My Son
ELIZA FACTOR - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
A unique and hopeful story of how one woman and her family were transformed by her child's multiple disabilities and inability to talk and how she, in turn, transformed a community.This intimate, no-holds barred memoir shares one family's experiences with a child who is both autistic... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sister of Darkness: The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist
RACHEL H STAVIS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The world's only non-denominational exorcist - the subject of a forthcoming major motion picture - tells her astonishing true story: a riveting chronicle of wrestling entities from infected souls, showing how pain and trauma opens us to attachment from forces that drain our energy . . . and can even... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
COLUM MCCANN - Random House
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen
Eric Lerner - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Where do you Come from Superman
Jacek Perzynski - Winged Hussar Publishing
Format: Paperback
|
|
The biography of a potential model for Superman, Zishe BreitbartThis is the story of a man who was the prototype of Superman presented quite strongly against the background of the history of the Jewish nation, because it is also a very important element of the iconic pop icon of Superman... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
VIRGINIA GROHL - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie-Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
Li︠u︡dmila Petrushevskai︠a︡ - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
|
|
The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel - the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Patricia Williams - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times "I know a lot of people... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton
RANDY L SCHMIDT - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Born Both: An Intersex Life
Hida Viloria - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Catherine Hewitts The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret."A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
Clara Parkes - STC Craft
Format: Print book
|
|
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite readers and devoted... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
Peter Gethers - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
|
|
A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and lovePeter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
ANDREA WARNER - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary - an authorized insight into the making of a legend." - Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Amy Dickinson - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
|
|
In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love.By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Becoming Beyonc: The Untold Story
J. Randy Taraborrelli - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Beyonce' Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Holding the Net: Caring for My Mother on the Tightrope of Aging
Melanie P Merriman - Green Writers Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
In this poignant and timely memoir, Melanie Merriman shares her struggle to care for her fiercely independent aging mother. When her father dies, Melanie commits herself to making the rest of her mother's life the best it can be. She brings knowledge to the situation -- as a hospice... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
R J SMITH - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A frumpy, remote, melancholy, and seemingly unknowable man, Robert Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s after emigrating from Switzerland in 1947. He enjoyed close friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky as well... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car
Randy Denmon - W W Norton
Format: Print book
|
|
The rollicking tale of a first-of-its-kind adventure - driving a Tesla through Central America.Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self
VICTORIA PRICE - Ixia Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
After a tumultuous period of crisis, Victoria Price rebuilt her life by embracing a daily practice of joy, healing childhood wounds and reconnecting to the example set by her father Vincent, the famed actor. Her journey involved stepping away from externalities and into her father's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Why Bob Dylan Matters
Richard F. Thomas - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Mama's Boy: A Story from Our Americas
Dustin Lance Black - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist, a candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a moving tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all oddsDustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon
Carey Fleiner - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
|
|
Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies's band, the Kinks, became one of England's most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as "You Really Got Me," "Lola," and "Sunny... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Recommended by NPR, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, New York Post, and Bustle A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Live at Montreux 1973
Carole King - Eagle Rock Entertainment
Format: Audio CD
|
|
Released here for the first time, this 1973 Montreux show (her first ever performance outside of the U.S.) captures the early stages of a truly remarkable career. Following the release of her fifth album - Fantasy, Carole performs with heartfelt energy, playing classic hits such as "It's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Disaster Falls: A Family Story
Stephane Gerson - Crown
Format: Print book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined
Kilee Brookbank - KiCam Projects LLC
Format: Paperback
|
|
The updated edition of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award winner for Best Inspirational Book! Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, but her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning forty-five percent of her body and sending her to the brink of death.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Mean
Myriam Gurba - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurbas coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Conversations with McCartney
Paul Du Noyer - ABRAMS Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"One of the most fascinating portraits to date of one of the most important cultural icons of our age." - Choice In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartneys office in London. They asked him to interview the star; McCartney and Du Noyer had met once before and enjoyed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This Little Art
Kate Briggs - Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback
|
|
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm Just Getting To The Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear & Fatherhood
Steven Church - Outpost19
Format: Paperback
|
|
Acclaimed essayist Steven Church reflects on work, fear and fatherhood in a series of encounters that defy easy answers. From the depths of a tourist-trap gold mine to the edges of a meteor crater to the jagged landscapes of marriage and parenting, shift and flux are always front and center.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency
Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
NICK BILTON - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book
|
|
From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Folk Masters: A Portrait of America
Tom Pich - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Discover one hundred of the greatest folk artists practicing in the United States in Folk Masters: A Portrait of America. Over the past 25 years, photographer Tom Pich has traveled the country to the homes and studios of recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
Tony Fletcher - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
|
|
Wilson Pickett was arguably the greatest male soul screamer of the 1960s and '70s. With a career spanning half a century, he sold millions of albums and tens of millions of singles, leaving a legacy of unforgettable hits, including "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1000 Dances,"... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
World Trade Press. - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
Michelle LeClair - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The revelatory memoir by former "poster girl for Scientology" Michelle LeClair about her defection from the Church, her newly accepted sexual identity, and the lengths to which Scientology went to silence it.For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Dream Called Home: A Memoir
Reyna Grande - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.A Dream Called Home is the follow... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano
ANDREA AVERY - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A poignant memoir that weaves chronic illness and classical music into a raw, inspiring tale of grace and determination. Andrea, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis that threatened not just her musical aspirations... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Steve Jones - Da Capo
Format: Print book
|
|
Ask anyone who knows about music and they'll tell you: without Steve Jones, punk rock would not exist. This is not hyperbole. The prototypical street-urchin-turned-Sex-Pistols-guitarist was the inspiration for and creator of the punk movement, which started shaking the culture in late... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
MICHAEL FRANK - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
Carly Simon - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How New York Breaks Your Heart
Bill Hayes - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. Hayes's "frank, beautiful, bewitching"... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
RON STALLWORTH - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback
|
|
The extraordinary true story of the black detective who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the major motion picture written and directed by Spike Lee, and produced by Jordan Peele.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
Stephanie Saldana - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book
|
|
"Behind every dark moment, there is another hidden world. The trick is to hold out long enough to make it there."When American writer Stephanie Saldaa finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
Katherine Pratt - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child's years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir
C DANIELS - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America's musical landscape than Charlie Daniels. Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Abigail Pogrebin - Fig Tree Books LLC
Format: Print book
|
|
The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture -- not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez
Jose Baez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The unabridged, inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez ("The best defense lawyer in the country." - Sean Hannity) .When renowned defense attorney Jose... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies
Megan Griswold - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Book of Help traces one woman's life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold's narrative spans four decades and six continents -- from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Timothy D. Neufeld - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
|
|
U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fail Until You Don't: Fight Grind Repeat
BOBBY BONES - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program "The Bobby Bones Show," comedian and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered
Benjamin Taylor - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
A memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed. "Taylor's Hue and Cry is a vast offer of thanks and glowing triumph, his masterpiece to date." - Richard... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image.Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
Jill Bialosky - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Bialosky's erudite and instructive approach to poetry [is] itself a refreshing tonic." - Chicago Tribune "Wisdom and deep compassion...make [Bialosky's book] a tremendous asset both to readers and other writers." - The Washington Post An unconventional... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Story Cure: A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
Dinty W. Moore - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
A collection of cures for writer's block, plotting and characterization issues, and other ailments writers face when completing a novel or memoir, prescribed by the director of creative writing at Ohio University.People want to write the book they know is inside of them, but they run into... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Convicting Avery: The Bizarre Laws and Broken System behind "Making a Murderer"
Michael Cicchini - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
The shocking Netflix documentary Making a Murderer left millions of viewers wondering how an apparently innocent man could be wrongfully convicted - not just once, but twice. This book explains, in plain English, the numerous flaws in Wisconsin's criminal justice system that led to the wrongful... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Simpatico: A Collection of Love Letters to My Mother
JOAN PARSONS KURAITIS - Orange Hat Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Thirty years since the death of her dear mother, Kuraitis writes the story of their lives, and the strong unbreakable bond they shared. Simpatico clearly defines their approach to people, music, pop culture, literature, and style. Now, as a final tribute to the only woman she will ever... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
George & Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story
ELLIE LEBLOND SOSA - Down East Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Ellie LeBlond Sosa has fond memories of summers spent at her grandparents' Kennebunkport, Maine home. Though that home is a heavily protected compound and her grandparents are George and Barbara Bush, life at the Bush family home was not that different from most American families, with... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kadian Journal: A Father's Memoir
Thomas Harding - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
|
|
In July 2012, Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.Beginning on the day of Kadian's death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal is a record... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny
Michael Broers - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Written with great energy and authority -- and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself -- the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Fashion Climbing
BILL CUNNINGHAM - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
Peter Stark - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of AstoriaTwo decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing, Third Edition
Shari Dorantes Hatch - Grey House Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, The Encyclopedia of African-American Writing covers the role and influence of African American cultural leaders, from all walks of life, from the 18th century to the present. Readers will explore what inspired various African-American... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Darkness to Light: A Memoir
Lamar Odom - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock bottom depths. Desperation and elation. Sometimes in the same hour. Oh, and don't forget power . . . and the struggle for it. There has never been an athlete quite like Lamar Odom. And there has never... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
TIM BAUERSCHMIDT - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
|
|
When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie
Woody Woodmansey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
|
|
In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from her inner circle has told the story of how David... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Promise me, Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
Joseph R Biden - Thorndike Press
|
|
""Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
|
|
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Vietnam 365 Our Tour Through Hell-Memoir of David J. McCormack
Karen Angelucci - Acclaim Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Vietnam 365 Our Tour Through Hell is an honest reflection of one man's tour of duty in Southeast Asia...the true story of Spec-5 David McCormack, who left his home in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to serve with the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 5th Battalion, 2nd Artillery Automatic... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston’s Worst Day
Roseann Sdoia - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to lifes biggest adventures and most important relationships As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing
LARA FEIGEL - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An intense exploration of the life and works of Doris Lessing and how their themes are reflected in the writer's own life.Free Woman begins at a wedding and ends in the African bush. This is a memoir of Feigel's own journey as a writer, which becomes enmeshed with that of Doris... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Romance of Elsewhere: Essays
Lynn Freed - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A beautiful writer, dead-on brilliant, rich in humor, possessing a dark and comforting wisdom." -- Anne Lamott Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life:... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 19662016
Kenneth Womack - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Football Flyboy: First Lt. Bill Cannon, Piloting More Than His Own Aircraft
Lisa Reinicke - Our House Publications, LLC
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Not your typical war story. Football Flyboy examines the shaping of a good man, his family, and society under the wing of the messy cleanup as WWII winds down. If you like honest, relatable, no-nonsense people that teach you the threads of building upon relationships while making you laugh... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
Lizzie Velasquez - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
YouTube personality and celebrated motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez shows us how we can learn to accept all parts of ourselves and others, and in doing so create a more compassionate world. Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but not until... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." -- Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"A beautifully... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
Justin Spring - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France During les trente glorieuses -- a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis -- Paris was not only the world's most delicious,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery
Mary Cregan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A fearless, candid memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Two and Two: McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
RAFE BARTHOLOMEW - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A deeply stirring memoir of growing up in New York City's oldest Irish bar. McSorley's Old Ale House has been serving light and dark ale in New York City's East Village since 1854. Although a Supreme Court ruling forced them to allow women inside in the 1970s, many of the bar's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Brainwashed and Anointed: The Story of an Ex-Mormon
Chris Yeoman - Fonthill Media
Format: Paperback
|
|
In Brainwashed and Anointed, Christopher Yeoman tells his heart-wrenching struggles within Mormonism with no holds barred honesty and irresistible wit. Raised as a Mormon boy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Christopher went through a heavily indoctrinated youth system,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dottir: My Journey to Becoming a Two-Time CrossFit Games Champion
Katrin Davidsdottir - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This is a memoir by two-time CrossFit Games champion, Katrin Davidsdottir.Dottir is two-time consecutive CrossFit Games Champion Katrin Davidsdottir's inspiring and poignant memoir. As one of only two women in history to have won the title of "Fittest Woman on Earth" twice,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont
Saul Austerlitz - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival -- and the dark side of the '60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Amy Gary - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
|
|
For decades children and their parents around the world have cuddled together to read Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. While the lulling words of these stories have formed nighttime rituals for millions, few know that these classic works were part of a publishing revolution led by Margaret... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis
Kathryn Sermak - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
Hilary Mantel - Picador Modern Classics
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Life Is Short
Jennifer Arnold MD - Howard Books
Format: Print book
|
|
From the beloved stars of TLC's The Little Couple comes an uplifting and moving behind-the-scenes account of how the pair met, fell in love, and overcame huge obstacles to become successful professionals and parents.Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein have inspired millions as stars of TLC's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Anthology, Part III: Live
Garth Brooks - Pearl Records
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Go inside the electric world of Garth Brooks LIVE. From the first on-stage appearance in college to headlining his own record breaking tours and worldwide stardom. Includes behind the scene stories, insider secrets, interviews with band and crew. Five CDs with 52 Live Recordings including... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook
|
|
"Ive struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
Dorothy Marcic - Citadel
Format: Paperback
|
|
"A rapid-fire, real-life thriller." - New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps The lovely widow had confessed to the coldblooded murder of her husband. But Dorothy Marcic suspected a more sinister tale at the heart of her beloved uncle's violent death. The brutal... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Not Always Happy: An Unusual Parenting Journey
Kari Wagner-Peck - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
While most people meet their child for the first time in a delivery room, some parents have to meet their child in the reception area of an administrative building.Not Always Happy is a humorous and sharp chronicle about adopting and raising a son with Down syndrome from the Maine foster... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Go Slow: The Life of Julie London
Michael Owen - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and '60s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, and shapely... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tudor Monarchs: Lives in Letters
Andrea Clarke - British Library Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Tudor period (1485-1603) is a story of drama, intrigue and tumultuous change but also of triumphs and progress, and it saw the emergence of an English national identity. Four hundred years after the Tudor era ended with the death of Elizabeth I, this extraordinary period in English... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sharp
Michelle Dean - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Death Need Not Be Fatal
MALACHY MCCOURT - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
|
|
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva; min-height: 16.0px} Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant MALACHY... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
Tia Torres - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Siren Song: My Life in Music
SEYMOUR STEIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The autobiography of America's greatest living record man: the founder of Sire Records and spotter of rock talent from the Ramones to Madonna.Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Challenge Accepted!: 253 Steps to Becoming an Anti-It Girl
Celeste Barber - Amazon Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Prepare to laugh" - Reese WitherspoonFrom funny woman, Instagram star, and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! is a raucous, hilarious, and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas, and how to rock a sexy scar.Part memoir, part comedy routine,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince
James Prince - N-The-Water Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For decades, serial entrepreneur James Prince presided over Rap-A-Lot Records, one of the first and most successful independent rap labels. In his memoir, he explains how he earned his reputation as one of the most respected men in Hip Hop. By staying true to his three principles of heart,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia
Gerda Saunders - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"[A] courageous and singular book."---Andrew Solomon In the tradition of Brain on Fire and When Breath Becomes Air, Gerda Saunders' Memory's Last Breath is an unsparing, beautifully written memoir--a true-life Still Alice that captures Saunders' experience... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Luis M Botana - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world;... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Meet Me In The In-Between: A Memoir
Bella Pollen - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A provocative and lively memoir in stories by the bestselling, "Richard and Judy" selected author of The Summer of the Bear |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
RUTH FITZMAURICE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe'... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America
Will Ashon - Faber & Faber Social
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny, and mythology. Chamber Music is hip hop as race and class politics, as music and as poetry on the move. Through Ashon's vibrant textured prose we watch in awe as these young men seize on whatever the culture has to offer,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
Janice MacLeod - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall: Exposing Graft and the 1936 Pulitzer Prize
Jerry Harrington - The History Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
On December 12, 1934, police raided a canning factory in Cedar Rapids, uncovering an illegal liquor and gambling set-up. Verne Marshall, tempestuous editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, sensed a bigger story and a wider network of corruption. His aggressive investigative reporting led to multiple... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
