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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
ELAINE PAGELS · Ecco
Pages: 256
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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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating... |
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My Days: Happy and Otherwise
Marion Ross · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as "Mrs. C.," Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet... |
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry... |
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All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
Karen Babine · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying." When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine -- a cook, collector of thrifted vintage... |
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Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey
Ken Dryden · Signal
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author and Hall of Famer Ken Dryden, this is the story of NHLer Steve Montador - who was diagnosed with CTE after his death in 2015 - the remarkable evolution of hockey itself, and a passionate prescriptive to counter its greatest risk in the future: head injuries.... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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The Light Years: A Memoir
Chris Rush · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American historyChris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving... |
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The Last Job: "The Bad Grandpas" and the Hatton Garden Heist
Dan Bilefsky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history.Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe... |
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Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
M. William Phelps · Kensington
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps. In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job,... |
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A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
Ian Buruma · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970'sWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant... |
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Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography
ANDREA WARNER · Greystone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary - an authorized insight into the making of a legend." - Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon.... |
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Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
JENNIFER ROMOLINI · HarperBusiness
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want - from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward... |
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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russia Revolution
Robert Service · Pegasus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced... |
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Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man
TOM EWING · UNIV OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Format: Hardcover
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The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, Songwriters, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame; and a legendary figure in American music. This authoritative biography sets out to examine his life in careful... |
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