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Blessed Are the Bank Robbers: The True Adventures of an Evangelical Outlaw
Chas Smith
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking true story of Bibles and bank robberies in Southern California, from a talented and highly praised gonzo journalistChas Smith grew up deeply enmeshed in the evangelical Christian world that grew out of Southern California in the late 1960s. His family included famous missionaries... |
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This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
Elizabeth Crane - ?Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising waysOne minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally... |
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I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir
Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author tells the moving love story of caring for her parents in their final years in this beautifully written memoir.Elizabeth Berg's father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: He showed a great deal of love and tenderness... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
Rodney Stotts - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely... |
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Long Way Home
Cameron Douglas - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.Cameron... |
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Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.... |
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The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star
Lesley-Ann Jones - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon's life, Lesley-Ann Jones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in self-imposed exile in New York - where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day forty years ago.Late... |
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing... |
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