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Untouchable A Memoir of the Friendship That Inspired the Acclaimed Film
- Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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The true story of a charismatic Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit movie The Intouchables (American remake, The Upside, starting Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston, coming March 2018) . The story of Abdel Sellou's surprising... |
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
T Fleischmann - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art How does art affect our relationship to our bodies T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzles-Torres's artworks -- piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles -- as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation,... |
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The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World
Zalmay Khalilzad - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Zalmay Khalilzad grew up in a traditional family in the ancient city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. As a teenager, Khalilzad spent a year as an exchange student in California, where after some initial culture shocks he began to see the merits of America's very different way of life.... |
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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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In This Together: My Story
Ann Romney - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed... |
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Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen
Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne, by the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria. We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems... |
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I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
KHALIDA BROHI - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan - and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment "Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality." - Malala... |
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice
Emily Winslow - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book
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In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn.... |
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Navel gazing : true tales of bodies, mostly mine
Michael Ian Black - Gallery Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"A frank and funny-because-it's-true memoir from New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black, about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his 40s--the alt-comedy answer to Brad Garrett's WHEN THE BALLS DROP"-- |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Alan Paul - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller!The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction... |
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Roshara Journal: Chronicling Four Seasons, Fifty Years, and 120 Acres
Jerold W Apps - Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Format: Print book
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A photographic diary of a small Midwestern farm and the family who've made it their homeIn Roshara Journal, father-and-son team Jerry and Steve Apps share the monthly happenings at their family's farm in central Wisconsin. Featuring Steve's stunning photos and fifty years of Jerry's... |
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All Happy Families: A Memoir
JEANNE MCCULLOCH - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding... |
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Out Loud: A Memoir
Mark Morris - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer's rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms - and staying true to himself Before Mark Morris became "the most... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie
Sean Egan - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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David Bowie has been one of pop music's greatest interviewees since January 1972, when he famously risked career death by asserting to Melody Maker that he was gay. Although he wasn't yet a big star, it was a groundbreaking moment. And over the years, Bowie has failed to give an uninteresting... |
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All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir
Rob Spillman - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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Rob Spillman - the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine - has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city... |
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Coming to My Senses: One Woman's Cochlear Implant Journey
Claire H. Blatchford - Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose... |
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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
JULIE DOBROW - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson's genius to light.Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication -- Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham... |
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation
Cindy Hval - Casemate
Format: Hardcover
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Americas World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the New World in deadly combat against the great powers of the Old. On sea, in the air, and on land our boys fought... |
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The Stranger Beside Me
ANN RULE - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) , her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend - Ted Bundy - was not only a suspect... |
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Moriz Scheyer - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist.... |
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Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer
Penny Farmer - Diversion Books
Format: Paperback
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In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers -- just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act -- to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer "A real-life page turner... |
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Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
Guy Verhofstadt - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and southern Europe; terrorist attacks in Paris,... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
World Trade Press. - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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. |
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Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews
Ted Geltner - The University of Georgia Press
Format: Print book
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The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantvnamo detainee.. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantvnamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
Megan Hustad - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Megan Hustad and her family try to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in a post-Christian AmericaWhen Megan Hustad was a child, her father uprooted their family from Minneapolis to embark on a cross-cultural journey in the name of evangelical Christianity. As missionaries they brought... |
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The Late Starters Orchestra
Ari L. Goldman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur... |
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Expect the Unexpected: Bringing Peace, Healing, and Hope from the Other Side
Bill Philipps - New World Library
Format: Print book
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Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, part inspiring stories, Expect the Unexpected provides knowledge and support for tapping into spiritual realms we do not fully understand.Bill Philipps had the kind of childhood that seems too tragic to be true - drug-addicted parents, parental... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House Publishing Group
Format: eBook
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur... |
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Billy Joel
Fred Schruers - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island... |
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Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
SARA ZASKE - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Bringing Up Bebe and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a clarion call and practical guide for a return to rational parenting, from an American woman who learned how to raise strong, self-reliant children by following the common sense approach of German parenting.... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly... |
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Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince
Lisa Hilton - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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A new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her "weak and feeble woman's body" to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth,... |
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I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir
James Webb - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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In this brilliantly received memoir, former senator James Webb has outdone himself. It is rare in America that one individual is recognized for the highest levels of combat valor, as a respected member of the literary and journalistic world, and as a blunt-spoken leader in national politics.... |
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The Art of Leaving: A Memoir
Ayelet Tsabari - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari's... |
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Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva
Deborah Voigt - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally beloved opera star Deborah Voigt recounts her harrowing and ultimately successful private battles to overcome the addictions and self-destructive tendencies that nearly destroyed her life.Call Me Debbie is one of the most electrifying performances of Deborah Voigt's... |
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Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President
Betty Boyd Caroli - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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This "smartly written ... stunning" (The Boston Globe) portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, and ballast for her husband Lyndon offers "a penetrating analysis ... of a marriage that paired two complicated but devoted figures, a coupling... |
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Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast: Reflections on Fatherhood
MATTEO BUSSOLA - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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This #1 Italian bestseller, offering a father's observations of the everyday moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, has struck a chord with readers around the globe.Matteo Bussola is a designer and cartoonist who lives in Verona, Italy with his wife Paola; their three young daughters,... |
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Sam Smith: The Biography
Joe Allan - Lesser Gods
Format: Paperback
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Sam Smith's debut album, In the Lonely Hour, sold four million copies and won four 2015 Grammy awards. In 2016, he won an Oscar for Best Original Song. The young, soulful singer has massive crossover appeal, with his touching honesty about loneliness, love, and his own sexuality coming... |
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan Hampton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known... |
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Manderley Forever
Tatiana De Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier."It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor.... |
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One Perfect Day: A Mother and Son's Story of Adoption and Reunion
Diane Burke - Skyhorse Publishing,
Format: Print book
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The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal... |
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude... |
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The Art of Not Having it All: True Stories of Men, Sex, and Other Disasters
Melissa Kite - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Melissa Kites hilarious and honest memoir draws readers in to her exploits in not having it all in the world of leaning incomplete with dating misadventures, heroic plumbers, and clinically obese fish. Does a great weekend for you mean scrubbing all the grouting in your bathroom with a toothbrush... |
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Lennyball: A Memoir of Life on the Edge
Lenny Dykstra - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INSTANT CLASSIC OF HUSSLE AND EXCESS ..."Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES I'VE EVER READ. It comes from the heart." - Stephen King"THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BLOW YOUR MIND! Obviously... |
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High School
Sara Quin - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginningsHigh School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from... |
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Take a stand : lessons from rebels
Jorge Ramos - Celebra
Format: Print book
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"People ask if I am a journalist or an activist. The truth is that I am just a journalist who asks questions, but one who does in fact take a stand." - Jorge Ramos After 30 fascinating years uncovering the hard truth, Emmy Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos opens up for the first... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale
Dan Pearson - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s.... |
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Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short
William D. Cohan - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan. In his masterful pieces for Vanity Fair and in his bestselling books,... |
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive
Frances Terpak - Getty Research Institute
Format: Print book
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Celebrated photographer Robert Mapplethorpe challenged the limits of censorship and conformity, combining technical and formal mastery with unexpected, often provocative content that secured his place in history. Mapplethorpe's artistic vision helped shape the social and cultural fabric... |
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Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald
Suzanne Marrs - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly... |
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William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come
James Curtis - Pantheon
Format: eBook
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He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, influenced by German expressionism and the work of the great European directors. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series... |
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help... |
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Cant Forgive: My 20-Year Battle with O.J. Simpson
Kim Goldman - Tantor Audio
Format: eBookDigital Only(Digital Only)
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When Kim Goldman was just 22, her older brother, Ron, was brutally killed by O. J. Simpson. Ron and Kim were very close, and her devastation was compounded by the shocking not guilty verdict that allowed a smirking Simpson to leave as a free man. It wasnt Kims first trauma. Her parents... |
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The Life of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
Josiah Henson - Dover Publications, Inc., 2015.
Format: Print book
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Born into slavery on a Maryland farm, Josiah Henson (1789-1883) worked as a foreman, married, and became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Faced with the prospect of separation from his family, Henson fled with his wife and children to Ontario, where he became a leader in the Afro-Canadian... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Blair Jackson - Flatiron Books
Format: Audiobook
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In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the bands story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices... |
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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
Carly Simon - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair -- Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor;... |
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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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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 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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Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family
Swoosie Kurtz - Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate... |
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Behind the Curtain: An Insiders View of Jay Lenos Tonight Show
Dave Berg - Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Jay Lenos Tonight Show comes alive in this book by insider Dave Berg, who spent 18 years as Jays co-producer. There were always two shows: the one on stage and the one behind the curtain. This narrative weaves both together, featuring the shows most legendary moments, including Hugh Grants... |
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The Skeleton Cupboard: The Making of a Clinical Psychologist
Tanya Byron - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping, unforgettable, and deeply affecting story of a young clinical psychologist learning how she can best help her patients, The Skeleton Cupboard is a riveting and revealing memoir that offers fascinating insight into the human mind. In The Skeleton Cupboard, Professor Tanya Byron... |
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
MOHAMMED AL SAMAWI - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A young man's moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from fanaticism and a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen,... |
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Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
Karoline Kan - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they... |
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Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
Paul Goldberger - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly... |
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
Casey Rae - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented - until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs... |
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
Ryan H. Walsh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched... |
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Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work... |
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Shadow on the Mountain: A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance and Hope
Shaker Jeffrey - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring memoir of a young Yazidi who served as a U.S. combat interpreter but was later forced to flee into the mountains of Iraq to avoid the ISIS slaughter of his peopleShaker Jeffrey's life has been an odyssey of courage, cunning, and desperation. His journey began as a fatherless... |
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The Food and Wine of France: Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
Edward Behr - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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A beautiful and deeply researched investigation into French cuisine, from the founding editor of The Art of Eating and author of 50 Foods.In THE FOOD AND WINE OF FRANCE, the influential food writer Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from... |
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Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Amy Robach - Ballantine, 2015.
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"I have breast cancer." When Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach revealed her shocking diagnosis on live television in November 2013, the seasoned news reporter embarked on the most difficult and illuminating journey of her life. In this intimate memoir she retraces... |
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The Road to Happiness Is Always Under Construction
Linda Gray - Regan Arts
Format: Hardcover
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To celebrate her 75th birthday, Linda Gray, the iconic star of Dallas and timeless beauty, is sharing her road map to happiness in her revelatory memoir.When Linda Gray, iconic star of Dallas, was twenty years old, a magazine editor coldly rejected her as a model, writing that, perhaps... |
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Michael Sims - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century... |
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No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
Peter Richardson - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives,... |
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
BETH ANN FENNELLY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." -- from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses... |
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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
James Fearnley - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series... |
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Camille T Dungy - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely... |
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
Sabeeha Rehman - Arcade Publishing
Format: Print book
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This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today.Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United... |
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Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection
Kristen Howerton - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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A smart, subversively funny personal memoir that advocates for resisting the superficial expectations of motherhood and challenges the idea that there's a "right" way to raise kids "Kristen is one of the clearest, wisest, smartest voices in our culture."--Jen Hatmaker,... |
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana... |
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Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Roy Jr Blount - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, "We lived. We ate."Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most cherished comic writers. He's been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from "a work of art" (Robert... |
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Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Kelley French - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head... |
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From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
VIRGINIA GROHL - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep... |
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Noel Street
Richard Paul Evans - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this new offering from "the king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) , #1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans shares a story of heart, loyalty, and hope as he explores the deeper meaning of the holiday season and asks what it truly means to love and forgive.... |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption
Kermit Alexander - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read for anyone concerned with how drugs and gangs ravaged Los Angeles." - Los Angeles Times "A deeply moving story of one man's pain and hard-won peace...This is a special book." - BOOKLIST (starred review) In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star... |
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,... |
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The Education of George Washington: How a forgotten book shaped the character of a hero
Austin Washington - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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George Washington - a man of honor, bravery and leadership. He is known as America's first President, a great general, and a humble gentleman, but how did he become this man of stature?The Education of George Washington answers this question with a new discovery about his past and the surprising... |
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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
Ani DiFranco - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism,... |
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Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
Juan F Thompson - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: eBook
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"An intimate, close-up portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, fearless outlaw journalist, "avenging proxy for the American polity," whose manic first-person articles and expose's so interwoven with the getting of the story, gave rise to gonzo journalism (gonzagas-"fooled... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than... |
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Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield
Todd Mayfield - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights movement. "People Get Ready" is the black anthem of the 1960s. On his Superfly album, rather than glorifying the blaxploitation... |
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Two and Two: McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
RAFE BARTHOLOMEW - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Peter McGraw - Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist "shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why" (New York Post) .Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball... |
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The Carry Home
Gary Ferguson - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience. He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program for Shouting at the Sky. He journeyed 250 miles on foot for Hawks Rest and followed... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich - Random House
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin
Andrew Wilson - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen explores the connections between his dark work and even darker life.When forty-year-old Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, a shocked world mourned the loss. McQueen... |
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
JENIFER LEWIS - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the unforgettable life lessons she learned along the way.Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a mid-western girl with a dream whose journey from poverty... |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
Dorothy Marcic - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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"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... |
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Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
John von Sothen - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQAmericans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours... |
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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
KIM BROOKS - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
ANN HOOD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long... |
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Arlene Alda - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." -President Bill Clinton"Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." -Barbara WaltersA touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's... |
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Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Shannon Leone Fowler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took - through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond - to find peace after her fianc suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler,... |
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Carmine the Snake: Carmine Persico and His Murderous Mafia Family
FRANK DIMATTEO - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking true story of the most ruthless and deadly mob boss in the annals of the American Mafia. In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine "The Snake" Persico was the King of the Streets. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw gang... |
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A Modern Marriage: A Memoir
Christy Kidd - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this candid memoir about a marriage that risked everything to emerge stronger than ever, one couple takes us outside the bounds of monogamy and into one of the most fascinating and secretive subcultures in the nation - swinging.With fifteen million strong worldwide, swingers are everywhere... |
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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
John Rizzo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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From the "most influential career lawyer in CIA history" (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. government's intelligence program (1976-2009).In 1975, fresh out of law school and working... |
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The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published... |
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In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut--an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story--of a long and sometimes... |
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Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait
Steve Parke - Cassell
Format: Hardcover
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PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon's former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park. At least half of the images in the book are exclusively published here for the first time; most other images in the book... |
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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious... |
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No Room for Small Dreams: The Decisions That Made Israel Great
Shimon Peres - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth... |
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Little Weirds
Jenny Slate - Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERStep into Jenny Slate's wild, unfiltered imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling) , "delicious" (Amy Sedaris) , and "poignant" (John Mulaney) collection about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something... |
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Running with Rhinos: Stories from a Radical Conservationist
Ed Warner - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Print book
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''Running with rhinos'' is not a euphemism--not when you're ground support for the International Rhino Foundation's Rhino Conservancy Project. Edward M. Warner, a self-proclaimed radical conservationist, presents his outrageous adventures from more than a decade... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic... |
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters
Fergus Fleming - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel,... |
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