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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
LENORA CHU - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' PickIn the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bb, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system... |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Townsend Library Edition)
Harriet Jacobs - Townsend Press
Format: Hardcover
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This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults... |
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
ALEC NEVALA-LEE - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest... |
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "original, politically daring and passionately written" (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political... |
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Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
Andrea Di Robilant - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant's tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy... |
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Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Richard M Cohen - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer... |
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If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Jamie Tworkowski - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times BestsellerIn 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms" about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly... |
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Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir
John Galvin USA - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover
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When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man without peer among living generals. In Fighting the Cold War A Soldiers Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and statesman... |
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