The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) , a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed - and, in an effort to fill...
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex,...
Author: Abbott Kahler
Publisher: Crown
An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies,...
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis,...
Author: James Kaplan
Publisher: Penguin Audio
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans - who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of BlueThe myth...
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder...
Author: Wright Thompson
Publisher: Penguin Audio
"The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read ... Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." - Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy:...
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing...
Author: DeMar DeRozan
Publisher: Harmony
From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone.. "DeMar DeRozan's story is one of adaptability, courage, and love. The persistent effort on his part to rise...
On Call: A Doctor's Journey...
Author: Anthony Fauci M.D.
Publisher: Viking
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly...
Be Ready When the Luck Happens:...
Author: Ina Garten
Publisher: Crown
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten - aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon - shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table. Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining,...
Question 7
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Knopf
An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave...
Frighten the Horses
Author: Oliver Radclyffe
Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes. . From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do...
Something Lost, Something Gained:...
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest...
