"Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking . . . told with stunning originality. Annie Lord is a phenomenal talent." -- Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love"An electrifying debut." -- Caroline O'Donoghue, author of The Rachel IncidentWith the incisive wit and depth of Dolly Alderton...
Two Women Living Together: The Bestselling...
Author: Kim Hana
Publisher: Ecco
The big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal expectations with their decision to grow old together under one roof.When most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo chose independence - savoring...
What Do You Do When You're...
Author: Jonathan Bernstein
Publisher: Da Capo
"A superb biography of a singular life."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Rolling Stone journalist presents the story of the late singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. When Justin Townes Earle died of an overdose alone in his Nashville apartment, his death sent waves of grief through the country-Americana...
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Author: Belle Burden
Publisher: The Dial Press
A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage - an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy"Riveting . . . examines the very nature of intimacy." - Joyce Carol OatesIt was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed...
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom,...
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, shared through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine;...
The Sea Captain's Wife: A True...
Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow ClicquotSummer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring...
David Bowie and the Search for Life,...
Author: Peter Ormerod
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
The story of how David Bowie's search for meaning inspired him to write the music that defined a generation. In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Bowie's genre-expanding,...
The Company of Owls
Author: Polly Atkin
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
"The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth ... Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time." - Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature WritingAn observant, lyrical memoir exploring...
Making Rent: The Story Behind the Music...
Author: Tim Weil
Publisher: Apollo Publishers
From the musical director of Rent comes a thirtieth-anniversary account of how Broadway's iconic grunge rock show and its music were made and how they would forever reshape musical theater.Thirty years after Rent, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking rock opera, opened on Broadway, you would be hard-pressed to find...
Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories...
Author: Marc Shaiman
Publisher: Regalo Press
From the award-winning composer/co-lyricist behind such iconic projects as Hairspray, Sister Act, Mary Poppins Returns, and Smash comes a wickedly funny, no-holds-barred memoir. In Never Mind the Happy, musical dynamo Marc Shaiman looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations....
