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Split Decision: Life Stories

Ice-T - ?Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune - while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. Ice-T rose to fame in the late...
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

Daniel de Vise - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

The first full and authoritative biography of an American - indeed a world-wide - musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues." - President Barack Obama "He is without...
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Gone 'til november

Lil Wayne. - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes the long-awaited GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER, a deeply personal and revealing account of his time spent incarcerated on Rikers Island for eight months in 2010.
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We Cook Filipino: Heart-Healthy Recipes and Inspiring Stories from 36 Filipino Food Personalities and Award-Winning Chefs

Jacqueline Chio-Lauri - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"This beautiful book is filled with stories and recipes from the heart, that are good for your heart too. It is a moving and meaningful showcase of how delicious and healthful Filipino food can be." --Ellie Krieger, RD, Food Network and PBS show host, and James Beard Foundation...
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Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days

Janice Dean - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces.Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know...
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Emily in Paris: The Official Cookbook

KIM LAIDLAW - Weldon Owen
Format: Hardcover

This elegant cookbook celebrates the characters and cuisine of the popular Netflix series Emily in Paris.Taste your way through Emily's Parisian neighborhood with over 75 recipes inspired by the Netflix series and l'Hexagone itself. Cook from show-inspired favorites like Gabriel's...
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Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero

Nancy Schoenberger - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined - the Western - and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team,...
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Malagash

JOEY COMEAU - ECW Press
Format: Paperback

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn't good enough. Devastated...
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Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

James Burrows - ?Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I'm delighted that everyone can now share in his incredible insight with this book." - JENNIFER ANISTONFrom the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, and Will...
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The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

Paula Poundstone - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." - Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known." - Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice "Is there a secret to happiness?"...
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