"Truth is always stranger than fiction. . . A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." -#1 International Bestselling Author Don WinslowThe gripping true story, that reads like fiction, of how legendary FBI Special Agent Martin Suarez went deep undercover - and lived a double-life...
When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan...
Author: Susan Cheever
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever, published in 1978, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer...
Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays
Author: Zosia Mamet
Publisher: Viking
From the singular mind of Zosia Mamet, a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show businessYou may know Zosia Mamet from her role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of Hollywood's original nepo babies (or as she says, "So if I'm a nepo...
The Answer Is in the Wound
Author: Kelly Sundberg
Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
"Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I've never read anything like it." - Maggie SmithAn intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma and PTSD on survivors - challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized and illuminating...
The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban...
Author: Elena Sheppard
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
"Spellbinding." -- BOOKLIST , starred review * "A must-read." -- Library Journal "Poetic." -- Emma Straub * "This is writing as spell-casting and archival longing." -- Leslie JamisonA memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family's exile from the island, through a lyrical...
George Washington and the Creation...
Author: William M. Fowler Jr.
Publisher: Lyons Press
Washington's strategic genius extended beyond war, laying the foundation for a powerful American Republic. The twentieth-century publication of Washington's writings, and more recently the digital editions of his papers, have provided George Washington's biographers with increased access to the details of his life....
Football Sissy: A Cross-Dressing...
Author: Jack Brennan
Publisher: Belt Publishing
"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." -- Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football In Jack Brennan's decades-long career as a sports journalist, he covered teams like the MLB's Reds and the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals....
Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica:...
Author: Michelle Ott
Publisher: Chronicle Books
This beautifully illustrated memoir tells artist Michelle Ott's true story of falling in love and discovering her place in the universe on a remote research station in Antarctica.In 2004, feeling burned out and dissatisfied, Michelle Ott left her high-profile gallery job in New York to work as a janitor at McMurdo Station...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Author: Francesca Wade
Publisher: Scribner
Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partner's emergence from the shadows after her death, in the decades-long fight to ensure her legacy.Gertrude Stein's salon at 27 rue de Fleurus...
Cesar Romero: The Joker Is Wild...
Author: Samuel Garza Bernstein
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Dynamic and debonair, Cesar Romero was best known for creating the role of the Joker in the 1960s Batman television series. As the first actor to play Batman and Robin's villainous nemesis, Romero established the character's giddy, manic tone and the distinctive laugh that subsequent actors like Jack Nicholson,...
