|
|
|
 |
|
The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones
Rich Kienzle - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of "the definitive country singer of the last half century" (New York Times) , who influenced, among others, Bob Dylan, Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris,... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
|
|
The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys’ club to a more inclusive elite.Sally Ride made history... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) , is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shirley Jones: A Memoir
Shirley Jones - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Dont miss the frank and heartwarming New York Times bestselling memoir by the Oscar-winning actress and beloved Partridge Family icon, Shirley Jones. In this memoir you are going to meet the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge. So begins Shirley... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
They're playing our song : a memoir
Carole Bayer Sager - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
|
|
Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Photo Album of Ohio's Canal Era, 1825-1913
Jack Gieck - The Kent State University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This book s a profusely illustrated interpretation of life along Ohio's nineteenth-century canal system: the Miami & Erie Canal in the western part of the state, and the Ohio & Erie Canal with its multiple feeders in central and eastern Ohio. An introduction by George W. Knepper,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir
Arlo Crawford - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A Book of the Month for GQ, The New Yorker, and Flavorwire"Beautifully told…In this one season of life, Crawford's writing about the work, people, nature and his family legacy reveals much about a simple life, and reminds us all to appreciate life's riches."--Seattle... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean
Donald Spoto - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
|
|
America's most enduring symbol of rebellious youth, James Dean has continuously held the world's fascination since his tragic death at the age of twenty-four more than forty years ago. In the first complete, fully documented biography of this enigmatic hero, internationally celebrated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Norman Mailer: A Double Life
J. Michael Lennon - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Norman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters and one of the most celebrated public figures of his time. He was a novelist, journalist, biographer, and filmmaker; a provocateur and passionate observer of his times; and a husband, father, and serial philanderer. Perhaps nothing... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Martin Sheen - Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters -- and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different -- they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor
Dana Canedy - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq Charles King forty-eight was killed on October when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson
Joseph Vogel - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Joseph Vogel has brilliantly cracked the DNA, the code of the work, the artistry of Michael Joseph Jackson. This is the book I have been long awaiting -- a pointed, intelligent dissection of an epic body of work." -Spike LeeOver his four decades in the public... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Elvis Costello - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
|
|
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he was twenty-four took the popular... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
House of Secrets
Lowell Cauffiel - A Mass Paper; Reprint edition
Format: Book
|
|
"Horrific, totally engrossing. . . A compelling look at insane brilliance." --Ann Rule A psychopathic mastermind whose reign of terror had no limits--even murder. . . For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his family with perverse domination. He enforced every cruelty imaginable,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
Daniel De ViseÌ - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
|
|
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs.Andy Griffith and Don Knotts met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy went to Hollywood to film a TV pilot about a small-town... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Saving Jake: When Addiction Hits Home
D'anne Burwell - FocusUp Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Winner of the 2015 USA BEST BOOK AWARD in the category of Health: Addiction & Recovery.D'Anne Burwell's smart, athletic son--raised in a loving and prosperous home--begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I Must Say HCC: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
Martin Short - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Martin Short takes you on a rich,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Buzz Aldrin - Harmony Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind's greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
Dan Rather - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his journalistic career, including a frank accounting of his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, new insights... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Escape
Carolyn Jessop - Broadway
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect and one womans courageous flight to freedom with her eight childrenWhen she was eighteen years old Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger a man thirty-two... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter
Paul Daugherty - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses
Stephen Davis - Gotham; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The New York Times bestselling epic tale of the last great rock band From the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods comes the complete story of Guns N' Roses - from their drug-fueled blastoff in the 80s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose, and his fifteen-year, multimillion... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick - Little
Format: Book
|
|
Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Deborah Rodriguez - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty
Anne Bird - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer? Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand. Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was given up for adoption... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Bruce Feiler - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Don McLeese - University of Texas Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
William L. Simon - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history He accessed computers and networks at the worlds biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were Mitnick was faster sprinting through phone switches computer systems and cellular networks He spent years... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Scars
Kilee Brookbank - KiCam Projects
Format: Print book
|
|
A moment can change everything. Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, thinking about school, soccer, her friends, and her boyfriend. But her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning over 45 percent of her body and sending her to the very brink... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Steve McQueen: A Biography
Marc Eliot - Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Steve McQueen is one of Americarsquos legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven The Great Escape The Thomas Crown Affair Bullitt and The Towering Inferno as well as for his turbulent life off-screen and impeccable style... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
Dana Milbank - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
|
|
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
Pat Conroy - Nan A. Talese
Format: eBook
|
|
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. Pat Conroy's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
Harlow Giles Unger - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751-1831)... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward
Lisa Niemi Swayze - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
When Lisa Niemi first exchanged vows with Patrick Swayze, she promised to be with her husband “till death do us part.” But how many couples stop and think about what that truly means? Worth Fighting For is both a candid tribute to a marriage and a celebration of the healing... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
God Grew Tired Of Us: A Memoir
John Bul Dau - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting war and ruthless violence,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Her Majesty: The Court of Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Hardman - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The hotly anticipated American edition of Robert Hardmans biography of Queen Elizabeth formerly Our Queen in the U.K.An intimate portrait of Englands soon-to-be longest reigning queen, in celebration of her diamond jubileeand the first-ever book interview with her grandson, Prince William.History... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Living with Honor: A Memoir
Sal Giunta - Threshold Editions; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
Medal of Honor winner Staff Sergeant “Sal” Giunta’s empowering memoir describes a boy working at a Subway shop who was attracted to an Army recruiting center by a free T-shirt, but left inspired by the thought of making a difference to the world. After enlisting, he was posted... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir
Emma Forrest - Other Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Emma Forrest a British journalist was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity In a cycle of loneliness damaging relationships and destructive behavior she found herself in the chair of a slim balding and effortlessly... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
House to House
David Bellavia - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Blood flows over my left hand and I lose my grip on his hair. His head snaps back against the floor. In an instant, his fists are pummeling me. I rock from his counterblows. He lands one on my injured jaw and the pain nearly blinds me. He connects with my nose, and blood and snot... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Confessions of a Mediocre Widow: Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity
Catherine Tidd - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
|
|
I spent my 11th wedding anniversary planning my husband's funeral. If I could just figure out how to make that rhyme, it would be the beginning of a great country song. Involuntarily single. That's the true story of where Catherine Tidd finds herself just three weeks after turning... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Key Is Love: My Mother's Wisdom, A Daughter's Gratitude
Marie Osmond - NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For beloved superstar Marie Osmond, one gift that her mother gave her stands above the rest the gift to trust and follow her heart. Even when the path seemed bleak, it was this unwavering faith that allowed her to follow her dreams, both professional and personal, and survive the hardest... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Book
|
|
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon
Kathleen C. Winters - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
|
|
When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Sara Miles - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert."-Sara MilesRaised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Julia: Her Life
James Spada - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
|
|
Julia Roberts represents a return to the glamour of the great Hollywood stars of another era. Fans flock to her movies, and she's a staple cover subject of People magazine and every entertainment show imaginable, but her real life has only been seen in tabloid glimpses until now. James... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Virginia Rounding - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia--A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.There are few characters... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House
Format: Print book
|
|
We all have dreams - things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Crime of the Century: Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation
Dennis L Breo - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
|
|
On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses' townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
RACHEL JEFFS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
Frances Mayes - Broadway; First edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
True Notebooks
Mark Salzman - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes - expecting the worst - and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
Amanda Knox - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit.In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment.After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath
Barbara Bentley - Berkley Trade
Format: Paperback
|
|
Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true Because it was At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry Barbara Bentley couldnt believe her luckso when things didnt add up she struggled to ignore her doubts She kept trying... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Barbra: The Way She Is
Christopher P Andersen - W. Morrow
Format: Print book
|
|
She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossomed into a modern-day Nefertiti, the political dilettante driving to the barricades in her Rolls-Royce,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout
Jill Abramson - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An instructive and marvelously entertaining chronicle of a puppys first year, by the executive editor of The New York Times One sparkling summer day, Jill Abramson brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their adorable... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Rachel Fershleiser - HarperPerennial
Format: Print book
|
|
Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity - six words at a time.One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
Myron Uhlberg - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
|
|
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlbergs memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parentsand his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.Does sound have rhythm my father asked. Does it rise and fall like the ocean... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Found
Tatum O'Neal - WilliamMr; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
|
|
Academy Award winner Tatum ONeal continues her inspiring true-life story begun in the 2004 New York Times bestseller A Paper Life with Found A Daughters Journey Homea moving memoir of discovery and reconciliation. In Found, the star of Paper Moon, TVs Rescue Me, and the OWN Oprah Winfrey... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
West of Eden: An American Place
Jean Stein - Random House, 2016.
Format: Print book
|
|
An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol "superstar" Edie Sedgwick,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Robert J. Wagner - It Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The New York Times bestseller Pieces of My Heart is the revelation-filled memoir from one of Hollywoods most talented actors, Robert J. Wagner. He offers readers a candid and deeply personal look at his life and career, from his rise to stardom among legends like Cary Grant and Barbara... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
Jason Roberts - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
|
|
He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography
Andrew Morton - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The gripping true story of Angelina Jolie, from #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton.
"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Richard Wightman Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincolns death, we, like Walt Whitman, love the President personally.In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincolns Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright ugly of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Play Goes On: A Memoir
Neil Simon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
|
|
The renowned American playwright reveals how, following the death of his wife, he found creative inspiration in his career and a new relationship. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates
Daniel Sekulich - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Pirates. To many, the word conjures up images of swashbucklers in the eighteenth century. The very idea that pirates might still ply the seas today seems preposterous and far-fetched. But pirates most definitely still exist. And as Terror On the Seas shows, their violent activities on the other... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir
Ashley Judd - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From Barnes & NobleAshley Judd is an award-winning actress, the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd, and the half sister of country singing legend Wynonna Judd, but this memoir is no cookie cutter celebrity autobiography. Born out of her first trip to Southeast Asia's most heart-wrenching... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016 An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of 2016 A Seattle Times Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 An NPR 2016's Great Read A Boston Globe Best Book... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grandma Moses: American Modern
Robert Paul Wolterstorff - Rizzoli International 2016.
Format: Print book
|
|
A long-overdue reexamination of beloved American artist Grandma Moses, restoring her rightful place within the canon of mid-century American Art. One of the best-known artists of her time, and a true American legend, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses (1860-1961) was often... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson
Amber Frey - Regan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
1 corinthians 1013, niv No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. Amber Freys life was full of blessings... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Cold Case
Philip Gourevitch - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Follows investigator Andy Rosenzweig's three- decades-long pursuit of Frankie Koehler, a brilliant killer who keeps eluding capture. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
Nancy Goldstone - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.”... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. After putting her dream of opening her own restaurant on hold, Layne Mosler moves to Buenos Aires to write... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
Laura Thompson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
|
|
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman - Scribner
Format: Book
|
|
Powered by a sharp and wholly original voice, Chuck Klosterman delivers a real-life High Fidelity in this savvy, deliriously funny memoir of growing up a shameless heavy-metal devotee in 1980s North Dakota. The year is 1983, and Chuck Klosterman just wants to rock. But he's got problems.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Between You and Me: A Memoir with 82-Minute DVD
Mike Wallace - Hyperion; Har/DVD edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
At the age of 87, Mike Wallace is a legendary figure in broadcast journalism. Now, after 60 years of reporting on important events around the world, he shares his personal stories about the incredible range of celebrities, newsmakers, criminals, and world leaders who have subjected themselves... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis
Mark K. Updegrove - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Americans have long been defined by how they face adversity. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in how the nations chief executive has tackled myriad issues upon entering the White House. The ways that U.S. presidents handle the vast responsibilities of the Oval Office determine... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Journey with Maya
Tavis Smiley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courageWhen Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander III - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Book
|
|
A scientist's case for the afterlife Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
Natalie Cole - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In 2009 Natalie Cole was on dialysis, her kidneys failing. Without a kidney transplant, her future was uncertain.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Say It Out Loud: Revealing and Healing the Scars of Sexual Abuse
Roberta Dolan - She Writes Press; New edition
Format: Print book
|
|
Breaking the silence about sexual abuse is vital -- but it's only the first step. What happens next? For most survivors, the wounds left by such abuse are often left to fester, slowly destroying their lives. Say It Out Loud -- a unique blend of memoir and how-to -- exposes the emotional... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter
Robert Rummel-Hudson - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Schuyler’s Monster is an honest, funny, and heart-wrenching story of a family, and particularly a little girl, who won't give up when faced with a monster that steals her voice but can’t crush her spirit.When Schuyler was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Goya
Robert Hughes - Knopf
Format: Book
|
|
Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore) , the modern art movement (The Shock of the New) , the nature of American art (American Visions) , and the nature of America itself as seen through... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bradley (Great Generals)
Alan Axelrod - Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Dubbed by the World War II press as "The GI General" because of his close identification with his men, Omar Bradley rose to command the U. S. 12th Army Group in the European Campaign. By the spring of 1945, this group contained 1,300,000 men--the largest exclusively American field... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir
Susan Richards - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
“Proof that love for another animal can alone make one human and humane: wit and crushing sadness chasing each other all across the page; intelligence and bravery and perfect literary pitch... Damn great.”—Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of Dark Horses and Black Beauties:... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Anjelica Huston - Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Audiobook
|
|
Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Untitled on Becoming a Grandmother
Lesley Stahl - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
|
|
From one of the country s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
Dick Cavett - Times Books/Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
|
|
The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics todayFor years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Henry Marsh - Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The Instant New York Times best seller!Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening understanding of his vocation. - The New York TimesWinner of the PEN Ackerley PrizeShortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
Frances Kiernan - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society.Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Make Me a Mother: A Memoir
Susanne Antonetta - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir. In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at the airport... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson
Nelson George - Da Capo Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
|
|
Thriller takes us back to a time in 1982 when Michael Jackson was king of the charts, breaking the color barrier on MTV, heralding the age of video, and becoming the ultimate representation of the crossover dreams of Motown’s Berry Gordy, who helped launch Jackson’s career with... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I'll See You Again
Jackie Hance - Gallery Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, andslowly, painfully, and miraculouslyher cautious return to hope and love. Until the horrific car accident on New York States Taconic Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond
Deborah Laake - William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A Mormon woman chronicles her life as a member of America's fastest-growing Christian denomination, recalling her marriage at age nineteen, the divorce that left her a pariah in the church, and the various rituals of her religion. 20,000 first printing. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Greetings From Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country
Benjamin Tupper - NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Raw, direct, and powerful...This work is vitally important." -Ken Stern, former CEO of National Public Radio Captain Benjamin Tupper spent a year in Afghanistan in an Embedded Training Team, tasked with training, leading in combat, and mentoring the Afghan Army to victory against... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic
Mark L. Donald - St. Martin's Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Audiobook
|
|
The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. DonaldAs A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable.From... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Gary Cooper: An American Hero
Jeffrey Meyers - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Jeffrey Meyers creates a portrait based on the full cooperation of the actor's daughter as well as such colleagues and close friends as Arlene Dahl, Patricia Neal, and Fay Wray, with whom Meyers conducted extensive interviews. He examines every aspect of Cooper's life, beginning... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood
NEAL THOMPSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys - and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered." - Michael ChabonWhat makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Peter the Great
Derek Wilson - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
|
|
There has never been a more remarkable national leader in modern history than Peter the Great (1672–1725). He was a giant in every way. In physical stature, willpower, enthusiasm, energy, libertinism, and refusal to accept old conventions, he stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Arlene Alda - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
OBIT. Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People who Led Extraordinary Lives
Jim Sheeler - Pruett Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Most of the people in this book will die before the fifth paragraph. You probably haven't heard of any of them. That doesn't mean it s a book about nobodies. That doesn't mean it s a book about death. The obituaries collected here are at times humorous and at times heartbreaking.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Diana--The Last Word
Simone Simmons - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
|
|
During the last five years of her life, Princess Diana had one friend and confidante who was special to her. She was not part of Diana's social circle; she was not a family friend. That woman was Simone Simmons, a healer, who devoted herself to the troubled Princess.Simone formed a unique... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Dark Path: A Memoir
David Schickler - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A young man struggles to reconcile God, faith, and sex as he stumbles toward finding his life in this frank and beautifully written memoir. Since childhood, David Schickler has been torn between his intense desire to become a Catholic priest and his equally fervent desire for the company... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Modern Marriage: A Memoir
Christy Kidd - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts out There?
Whoopi Goldberg - Hachette Books
Format: Book
|
|
Have you noticed people aren't as polite as they once were or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. Just look and you'll see: People yak on cell... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
|
|
"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
Zoî Howe - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The New biography of "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" (Rolling Stone) Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history -- very... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
'Tis Herself: A Memoir
Maureen O'Hara - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"You are about to read the tale of the toughest Irish lass who ever took on Hollywood and became a major leading lady....In a career that has lasted more than sixty years, I have acted, punched, swashbuckled, and shot my way through an absurdly masculine profession....As a woman, I'm... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
Tal McThenia - Free Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
The spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in American history - the kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar - and a haunting family mystery that took almost a century to solve.THE MOST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Leslie Maitland - Other Press; y First printing edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. ... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House Publishing Group
Format: eBook
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I Can't Complain:
Elinor Lipman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
|
|
"Lipman is always in top form as an essayist." - New York Times Book Review In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life
Ellen Vaughn - Thomas Nelson; Har/Com edition
Format: Book
|
|
Alan and Denise Jackson's life seemed like a fairy tale: high school sweethearts marry young and leave small-town Georgia to pursue big dreams in Music City. They pay their dues, work hard, weather deep disappointments. Then their dreams come true. In fairy tales, the Jacksons'... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon
Philip B Kunhardt - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
|
|
An extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most beloved - and most enigmatic - president in the years between his assassination and the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. Availing themselves of a vast... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
Anthony Bruno - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book
|
|
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Up Till Now: The Autobiography
William Shatner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
|
|
"It is now Bill Shatner's universe---we just live in it."---New York Daily NewsAfter almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. Winning an Emmy for his role on Boston... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Witch of Lime Street: Sance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
David Jaher - Crown Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book
|
|
History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Hank Williams: The Biography
Colin Escott
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A biography of Hank Williams, country and western singer of such hits as Hey Good Looking, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, and Jambalaya. He drank and drugged his way through two marriages and off the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. When he died aged 29, he was country music's biggest s |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This is Van Gogh
George Roddam - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Vincent van Gogh used art to express his intensely emotional response to the world around him. Enraptured by the beauty of nature and tormented by the sorrows of human existence, he produced in his tragically short life some of the most powerfully expressive paintings ever seen. Many have... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service
Kate Braestrup - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Kate Braestrup's life was transformed by the loss of her husband; now Kate faces the possibility that she may lose her son.As a young mother Kate Braestrup discovered the fierce protectiveness that accompanies parenthood. In the intervening years--through mourning her husband and the joy of remarriage... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
