|
New Nonfiction December 2018
|
|
These are many of the recently published nonfiction books the library has received. Click on a title to see it in the catalog and to place a hold. If you are having trouble viewing the newsletter in your email, click the View Online option.
|
|
|
The life of Saul Bellow : love and strife, 1965-2005
by Zachary Leader
The second volume of the biography of the storied author describes how he expanded his collection of awards in his later years and continued to lead a dramatic, volatile love life, fathering his fourth child at age 81.
|
|
|
Johnny Cash : the life and legacy of the Man in Black
by Alan Light
Describes the life of Johnny Cash, from rural Arkansas to his first recordings with Sun Records, to his battles with drugs and romance with June Carter through unpublished materials and memorabilia from his family, including handwritten notes and personal photos.
|
|
|
An unlikely journey : waking up from my American dream
by Julián Castro
The keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, former San Antonio mayor and secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.
|
|
|
Churchill : walking with destiny
by Andrew Roberts
The best-selling author of The Storm of War draws on extensive new materials, from private letters to war cabinet meetings, in a revisionist portrait of the iconic war leader that discusses Churchill's motivations and unwavering faith in the British Empire
|
|
|
Professor at large : the Cornell years
by John Cleese
The beloved British comedian and actor best known as a member of Monty Python highlights his best moments while serving nearly 20 years as a professor-at-large at Cornell University, where he has given talks, workshops and sermons.
|
|
|
Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life
by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Examines the life of Henry VII's right-hand man, who did everything he could to secure the future of a son he loved dearly, but who ultimately could not control the unpredictable monarch. By the New York Times best-selling author of Christianity
|
|
|
Bing Crosby : swinging on a star : the war years 1940-1946
by Gary Giddins
In a much-anticipated follow-up to the universally acclaimed first volume of a comprehensive Bing Crosby biography, an NBCC Winner and preeminent cultural critic focuses on Crosby's most memorable period, the war years and the origin story of White Christmas.
|
|
|
Late-life love : A Memoir
by Susan Gubar
An acclaimed writer contemplates and celebrates her relationship with her husband describes how she learned to confront and deal with the many obstacles faced by senior couples including retirement, adult children, sexuality and memory issues.
|
|
|
Handcrafted : a woodworker's story
by Clint Harp
The maverick carpenter on HGTV’s hit show Fixer Upper and the star of Wood Work on the DIY Network presents a memoir that celebrates meaningful work, turning your craft into a career and recognizing the importance of the journey itself
|
|
|
Perfectly clear : escaping Scientology and fighting for the woman I love
by Michelle LeClair
The former president of Scientology's international humanitarian organization reveals her flight from the church in view of its anti-gay ideologies and how her decision triggered a discriminatory backlash that destroyed her business and challenged her custody rights.
|
|
|
I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
by Sue Prideaux
Illuminates the life of the famous philosopher and the events and people—including his family members, composer Richard Wagner and former lover Lou Salomé—that helped shape his brilliant, eccentric but also deeply troubled mind.
|
|
|
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
|
|
|
She wants it : desire, power, and toppling the patriarchy
by Jill Soloway
The creator of Transparent shares the poignant story of how her parent came out as transgender, compelling the author to challenge the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series
|
|
|
Keeping at it : the quest for sound money and good government
by Paul A Volcker
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, who has worked in the U.S. Federal Government for almost 30 years, using wit, humor and down-to-earth erudition, discusses the changes that have taken place in American life, government and the economy since World War II.
|
|
|
Let her fly : a father's journey
by Ziauddin Yousafzai
The father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai traces his journey from a disadvantaged youth in the Shangla mountains through his work as a progressive advocate, describing his return visit to his homeland six years after Malala's attack.
|
|
000s - Computers/General Knowledge
|
|
|
The patch
by John McPhee
A collection of essays from a staff writer at The New Yorker offer his thoughts on sports, including fishing, football, golf and lacrosse as well as a visit to Hershey, Pennsylvania and an encounter with Joan Baez
|
|
|
Queer eye : love yourself, love your life
by Antoni Porowski
Offering hope and acceptance, the beloved hosts of Netflix’s Queer Eye, in a book that is part dishy exclusive, part practical guide, provide a wealth of advice for creating a happy and healthy life—one that is rooted in self-love and authenticity
|
|
|
The Laws of Human Nature
by Robert Greene
The best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power draws on ancient wisdom to counsel readers on how to understand the unconscious motivations of others, exercise self-control and avoid conformity to develop an individual sense of purpose
|
|
|
Out of the maze : an a-mazing way to get unstuck
by Spencer Johnson
From the #1 best-selling author of the classic business parable Who Moved My Cheese? comes the posthumous sequel, in which characters Hem and Haw must learn how to adapt their beliefs to achieve better results
|
|
|
Guru
by RuPaul
Sharing his secret for success in both show business and all aspects of life, the renaissance performer and the world’s most famous shape-shifter reveals how he has broken “the fourth wall” to expand on the concept of mind, body and spirit.
|
|
|
Almost everything : notes on hope
by Anne Lamott
The New York Times best-selling author of Hallelujah Anyway presents an inspirational guide to the role of hope in everyday life and explores essential truths about how to overcome burnout and suffering by deliberately choosing joy.
|
|
|
Living with the gods : on beliefs and peoples
by Neil MacGregor
An acclaimed art historian explores the connection between faith and society by tracing the paths that different communities took to understand and describe their place in the cosmic order and how these narratives eventually shaped societies.
|
|
|
The Penguin book of hell
by Scott G. Bruce
Chronicles three thousand years of visions of Hell, from ancient Greek tales of Hades to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's "Inferno" and twenty-first-century imaginings of Hell on Earth
|
|
|
The prodigal prophet : Jonah and the mystery of God's mercy
by Timothy Keller
A pastor and New York Times bestselling author examines the book of Jonah, revealing that the second part of the story—what happens after Jonah is released from the belly of the whale—is where one of the most powerful and important lessons of the Bible is hidden
|
|
|
Why religion? : a personal story
by Elaine H. Pagels
The author of The Gnostic Gospels draws on personal experiences and the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists and historians to illuminate the enduring capacity of faith in explaining and meeting the challenges of the 21st century.
|
|
|
God is young : a conversation with Thomas Leoncini
by Francis
Pope Francis presents a timely examination of the future of the Catholic Church that urges believers to build a bridge between generations, explaining that God has the energy, spontaneity and motivation to rally necessary changes throughout today's conflicted world.
|
|
|
Becoming bodhisattvas : a guidebook for compassionate action
by Pema Chödrön
"For many years Pema Chödrön's books have opened a door into a revolutionary way of living by developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of our lives. In Becoming Bodhisattvas, Pema invites readers to venture further and presents the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth how we can awaken the softness of our hearts and develop true confidence amid the challenges we all face. And she offers readers a window into the traditional Buddhist teachings that guide her own life: those of The Way of the Bodhisattva, a text written by the eighth-century sage Shantideva. This treasured Buddhist work is remarkably relevant for our times, describing the steps we can take to cultivate courage, caring, and joy--the keys to healing ourselves and our troubled world. Here Pema offers a highly practical and engaging commentary on this essential text, explaining how its profound teachings can be applied to our daily lives."
|
|
|
God in the Qur'an
by Jack Miles
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography comes an informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion
|
|
|
Leaders : myth and reality
by Stanley A McChrystal
The retired four-star general and best-selling author of Team of Teams challenges the "Great Man" theory of leadership, sharing the less-recognized lessons of diverse leaders, from Robert E. Lee and Walt Disney to Margaret Thatcher and Martin Luther King, Jr
|
|
|
The job : work and its future in a time of radical change
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
A critically acclaimed journalist for The Atlantic reveals the surprising truths about the United States' increasing anxiety over jobs in a globalized and digitized world where the middle class is struggling to retain its foothold and suggests a way forward
|
|
|
Mastering the market cycle : getting the odds on your side
by Howard S. Marks
A successful Wall Street investor discusses the patterns and cycles that influence economies, companies and markets and describes how the studies of the past and recurring cycles will help investors weather any market.
|
|
|
Quite mad : an American pharma memoir
by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
"Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"
|
|
|
American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts
by Chris McGreal
A reporter for The Guardian describes how the current opioid crisis was driven by greed, incompetence and indifference and exposes Big Pharma's control of the health care system and the how the FDA was duped into pushing painkillers.
|
|
|
An unexplained death : the true story of a body at the Belvedere
by Mikita Brottman
The author of The Maximum Security Book Club presents an investigation into the suspicious death of Rey Rivera at the once-grand Belvedere hotel, sharing insights into the victim's probable murder and the unsettling roles of fellow patrons
|
|
|
Kickback : exposing the global corporate bribery network
by David Montero
A former correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and a regular producer for PBS’s FRONTLINE/World delves into the world of corporate bribery, examining its origins and its effects at both the individual and national level throughout the globe
|
|
|
An almost perfect Christmas
by Nina Stibbe
The author of Love, Nina presents a laugh-out-loud account of the highs and lows of the Christmas season in her home in Leicester that celebrates the lighter side of dry turkeys, pudding fires and re-gifting.
|
|
|
Einstein's monsters : the life and times of black holes
by Chris Impey
An astronomer and critically-acclaimed author answers questions on the cutting edge of astrophysics to explores the fascinating science of black holes and their role in theoretical physics from Einstein's equations of general relativity to testing string theory.
|
|
600s - Health, Cooking & Parenting
|
|
|
Medical medium liver rescue : answers to eczema, psoriasis, diabetes, strep, acne, gout, bloating, gallstones, adrenal stress, fatigue, fatty liver, weight issues, SIBO & autoimmune disease
by Anthony William
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Life-changing Foods and Thyroid Healing explains how to strategically improve liver health to alleviate a range of physical and mental symptoms, from digestive issues to emotional struggles to weight gain
|
|
|
Parenting Through Puberty : Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains
by M.d Kowal-connelly, Suanne
SUPERANNO Puberty is tough—on kids and maybe even more so on parents! Parenting Through Puberty explains the physical and emotional changes families can expect to see in their child. Dr. Kowal-Connelly covers the nitty-gritty of children's changing bodies, and, critically, she addresses the emotional toll puberty can take, covering issues of moodiness, body image, and self-esteem. Also included are ways to encourage adolescents to embrace a healthy, active lifestyle in these crucial years, with tips on exercise and nutrition. Original.
|
|
|
A gut feeling : conquer your sweet tooth by tuning in to your microbiome
by Heather Ann Wise
"Rooted in scientific research and providing a number of healthy sweet fixes high in prebiotics and probiotic foods that support the growth of healthy gut flora, this book is a practical guide to help heal our relationship with food and relieve bloat, digestive upset, inflammation, anxiety, and depression, and get rid of belly fat"
|
|
|
The breakthrough : immunotherapy and the race to cure cancer
by Charles Graeber
The best-selling author of The Good Nurse details the latest breakthroughs in oncological science and the discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system, sharing insights into the paradigm-shifting potential of immunotherapy in curing cancer
|
|
|
The new essentials cookbook : a modern guide to better cooking
by America's Test Kitchen
Helps budding home chefs build their skills, learn new techniques and become more confident in the kitchen through practical lessons and information on must-have equipment combined with 200 fresh, delicious increasingly challenging recipes.
|
|
|
Solo : a modern cookbook for a party of one
by Anita Lo
An acclaimed chef offers 101 easy, quick and modern recipes for home chefs that yield just a single serving, including Smoky Eggplant and Scallion Frittata, Chicken Tagine with Couscous, Duck Bolognese, Chicken Pho and Peanut Butter Chocolate Pie.
|
|
|
What to eat during cancer treatment : more than 130 recipes to help you cope
by Jeanne Besser
SUPERANNO The Essential Cookbook for People Undergoing Cancer Treatment. The American Cancer Society’s best-selling book, What to Eat During Cancer Treatment, returns with more than 130 recipes—including 100 new dishes—to help patients maintain sound nutrition during treatment. These simple, nourishing recipes will help patients cope with the most common eating-related side effects: nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble swallowing, sore mouth, weight loss, and taste changes. Anticipate—and overcome—the challenges of eating well during treatment.
|
|
|
Mississippi vegan : recipes & stories from a Southern boy's heart
by Timothy Pakron
Inspired by the landscape and flavors of his childhood on the Mississippi gulf coast, the creator of the blog Mississippi Vegan offers 125 plant-based recipes that substitute ingredients without sacrificing flavor and reveal the secret tradition of veganism in southern cooking
|
|
|
Israeli soul : easy, essential, delicious
by Michael Solomonov
A full-color cookbook focuses on the great dishes that are the soul of Israeli cuisine, including varieties of shawarma, hummus, falafel, mountain bread, schnitzel, Ashkenazi and much more. By the authors of the James Beard Award-winning Zahav.
|
|
|
Carla Hall's soul food : everyday and celebration
by Carla Hall
A co-host of the Emmy Award-winning lifestyle show The Chew offers 145 recipes for classic soul food, including Black-Eyed Pea Salad With Hot Sauce Vinaigrette, Cracked Shrimp With Comeback Sauce and Sweet Potato Pudding With Clementines.
|
|
|
Grits : a cultural and culinary journey through the South
by Erin Byers Murray
A food writer decides to delve deep into what she believed was a basic and bland Southern side dish and discovers the interesting, evolving and growing culinary significance of grits on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line.
|
|
|
Forage, harvest, feast : a wild-inspired cuisine
by Marie Viljoen
A collection of recipes that incorporate wild ingredients into everyday and special occasion fare features such dishes as rhubarb and ground elder soup, rabbit with field garlic and morels, juniper black currant chutney, and pawpaw spice cake
|
|
|
Out of the box holiday baking : gingerbread cupcakes, peppermint cheesecake, and more festive semi-homemade sweets
by Hayley Parker
"By starting with cake or brownie mixes, ready-made dough and crusts, and other make- it- simple head starts, Hayley Parker makes holiday baking a breeze. She transforms everyday ingredients into one- of- a- kind desserts and puts new twists on flavors like spicy gingerbread, cool peppermint, and comforting hot cocoa. Here are candies, cookies, cakes, cupcakes, pies, bars, and more, including: White Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles Eggnog Pie Red Velvet Whoopie Pies Fromthe blogger who makes "even novice bakers feel like pros" (POPSUGAR), these sweet treats are perfect for holiday gift-giving, parties, and unexpected guests--even Santa will be impressed!"
|
|
|
Baking all year round
by Rosanna Pansino
An award-winning YouTube star returns with a follow-up to her New York Times best-seller The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook that includes dishes for a variety of holidays and special occasions, including Heart-shaped Ravioli, Baseball Pizza and Confetti Pancakes
|
|
|
All about cake
by Christina Tosi
In this sugar-fueled cookbook, the chef, owner and founder of Milk Bar helps bakers of all levels to indulge in both classic flavors and true originals, revealing the method behind her team’s creativity to help invent any cake flavor imaginable.
|
|
|
Make time : how to focus on what matters every day
by Jake Knapp
The New York Times best-selling authors of Sprint outline a four-step system of small, practical habit and lifestyle changes for improving focus, overcoming overscheduling, finding greater work satisfaction and getting more out of everyday life
|
|
|
Lab rats : how Silicon Valley made work miserable for the rest of us
by Daniel Lyons
The best-selling author of Disrupted presents a wryly whimsical assessment of today's toxic work culture, tracing the factors that have compromised employee health and safety while profiling companies that have demonstrated effective examples of worker prioritization.
|
|
|
Success through diversity : why the most inclusive companies will win
by Carol Fulp
"Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable In our fast-changing demographic landscape, companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas oftheir operations will be best poised to thrive. Renowned business leader and visionary Carol Fulp explores staffing trends in the US and provides a blueprint for what businesses must do to maintain their competitiveness and customer base, including hiring in new ways, aligning managers around diversity, providing new kinds of leadership development, and engaging employees to embrace differences. Using detailed case histories of corporate cultures such as the NFL, Eastern Bank, John Hancock, Hallmark Health, and PepsiCo, as well as her own experiences in the workplace and in advising companies on diversity practice, Fulp demonstrates how people of different races and ethnicities represent an essential asset to contemporary companies and organizations"
|
|
|
Leadership and self-deception : getting out of the box
by Arbinger Institute
"Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to increase year after year, and the book's popularity has gone global, with editions now available in over twenty languages. Leadership and Self-Deception shows how the problems that typically prevent superior performance in organizations and cause conflicts in our personal lives are the result of a little-known problem called self-deception. People who are in self-deception live and work as if trapped in a box. They can't see the reality around them--they're blind to the self-serving motivations that are sabotaging them on the job and at home. But there is a way out. Through an entertaining and engaging story, Leadership andSelf-Deception shows what self-deception is, how it operates, the damage it does, and, most importantly, what can be done about it.This third edition includes new research about the self-deception gap in organizations and the keys to closing this gap so that people take responsibility for their own problems and for organizational problems. It also includes the first chapter from Arbinger's latest bestseller, The Outward Mindset"
|
|
|
This is marketing
by Seth Godin
The author of Tribes argues that real marketing isn’t about racking up clicks and tweets; it’s about connection, empathy and making a difference
|
|
|
Unsavory truth : how food companies skew the science of what we eat
by Marion Nestle
A leading nutritionist exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit, calling for better regulations and consumer action to prevent deliberately misleading marketing practices from associating foods with unproven health benefits.
|
|
|
Foundations of flavor : the Noma guide to fermentation
by René Redzepi
The influential Noma chef and the head of the restaurant's acclaimed fermentation lab share previously undisclosed techniques for creating a pantry of ferments and creating accessible misos, lacto-ferments, black produce and more.
|
|
|
An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden
by Mary Schmidt Campbell
"One of the most important and underappreciated visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years and emerged as a painter during the 1930s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance and in time to be part of a significant community of black artists supported by the WPA. Though light-skinned and able to "pass," Bearden embraced his African heritage, choosing to paint social realist canvases of African-American life. After World War II, he became one of a handful of black artists to exhibit in a private gallery-the commercial outlet that would form the core of the American art world's post-war marketplace. Rejecting Abstract Expressionism, he lived briefly in Paris. After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Bearden returned to New York, turning to painting just as the civil rights movement was gaining ground with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery bus boycott. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963, Bearden had begun to experiment with collage-or Projection, as he called it-the medium for which he would ultimately become famous. In this biography, Mary Schmidt Campbell offers readers an analysis of Bearden's influences and the thematic focus of his mature work. Bearden's workprovides a portrait of memory and the African American past; according to Campbell, it also offers a record of the narrative impact of visual imagery in the twentieth century, revealing how the emerging popularity of photography, film and television depicted African Americans during their struggle to be recognized as full citizens of the United States"
|
|
|
Cozy minimalist home : more style, less stuff
by Myquillyn Smith
A popular Nesting Place blogger explains that cozy doesn’t have to mean cluttered and minimal doesn’t have to mean cold in her latest decorating guide for real life. By the author of The Nesting Place
|
|
|
Homebody : a guide to creating spaces you never want to leave
by Joanna Gaines
The co-host of HGTV's Fixer Upper demonstrates how to create a home that reflects the individuals who live there, sharing in-depth, comprehensive guidelines for developing an authentic personal design style. 2 million first printing.
|
|
|
Thanks a lot Mr. Kibblewhite : my story
by Roger Daltrey
The front man of The Who draws on years of careful introspection in an anecdotal memoir of his rise from poverty to rock-and-rock stardom, sharing insights into the creative processes of iconic hits and his relationship with Keith Moon.
|
|
|
Johnny Cash : the life and legacy of the Man in Black
by Alan Light
Describes the life of Johnny Cash, from rural Arkansas to his first recordings with Sun Records, to his battles with drugs and romance with June Carter through unpublished materials and memorabilia from his family, including handwritten notes and personal photos.
|
|
|
Slowhand : the life and music of Eric Clapton
by Philip Norman
From the best-selling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.
|
|
|
Basketball : a love story
by Jackie MacMullan
A revelatory history of basketball, published to coincide with a major ESPN and ABC series, draws on hundreds of interviews with leading athletes, coaches, executives and journalists from the NBA, WNBA, NCAA and international leagues.
|
|
|
The mamba mentality : how I play
by Kobe Bryant
In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, an NBA great nicknamed "The Black Mamba” has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of his legendary “Mamba mentality.”
|
|
|
The incomplete book of running
by Peter Sagal
The host of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World shares lessons, stories, advice and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth
|
|
|
Wit's end : what wit is, how it works, and why we need it
by James Geary
The New York Times best-selling author of The World in a Phrase explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit, which he reasons are both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual
|
|
|
Literary Landscapes : Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature
by John Sutherland
An illustrated follow-up to Literary Wonderlands explores the geography, location and terrain of best-loved literary classics to reveal how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character and emotional responses.
|
|
|
A treasury of African American Christmas stories
by Bettye Collier-Thomas
A landmark collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era featuring writings from well-known writers and activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Ida B. Wells, and Langston Hughes, along with newly discovered gems. The book reflects Christmas experiences of everyday African-Americans and addresses familial and romantic love, faith and more serious topics such as racism, violence, poverty and racial identity.
|
|
|
Museum of the Americas
by J. Michael Martinez
"Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be allegorically coded with the transhistorical consequences of an imperial sociopolitical narrative. Engaging eighteenth-century Mexican casta paintings, the morbid lynching postcards of William Horne, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas traces an aesthetic out of racialized scenes of corporeal excess. Hybrid in form, Museum of the Americas voices itself in theory, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Throughout, Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through an observer's visual perception of that body. For Martinez, the corporeal always serves as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. His work revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the biopolitical appropriations that render it a disposable aesthetic object"
|
|
|
The end of the end of the earth : essays
by Jonathan Franzen
A provocative new essay collection by the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections includes an exploration of his complex relationship with his uncle, an assessment of the global seabird crisis and his young adulthood in New York
|
|
|
The reckonings : essays
by Lacy M. Johnson
Presents the author's essays on the nature of justice and how the justice system could be expanded beyond vengeance and retribution to include acts of compassion and mercy
|
|
|
Interior states : essays
by Meghan O'Gieblyn
Original, perceptive and powerful, this collection of essays is centered on faith and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere. Original.
|
|
|
Everything's trash, but it's okay
by Phoebe Robinson
The star of 2 Dope Queens and best-selling author of You Can't Touch My Hair presents an uproarious essay collection that explores subjects ranging from intersectional feminism and today's destructive dating scene to our culture's obsession with work and beauty
|
|
|
Mad, bad, dangerous to know : the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce
by Colm Tóibín
The New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn offers an intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives of William Wilde, John Butler Yeats and John Stanislaus Joyce—and the complicated relationships they had with their literary-legend sons
|
|
|
Witness : lessons from Elie Wiesel's classroom
by Ariel Burger
A devoted protégé and friend of Elie Wiesel takes readers into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom, showing the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient not only as an extraordinary human being but as a master teacher.
|
|
|
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
by Adam Hochschild
Updated selections of more than two dozen essays from the long career of the National Book Award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost include pieces on social justice, the environment, the writers who shaped him and the questionable documentation of history
|
|
|
The white darkness
by David Grann
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon traces the South Pole expedition of a decorated British special forces officer, an admirer and descendant of Ernest Shackleton's expedition, who in 2015 risked his life to walk across Antarctica alone
|
|
|
When Women Ruled the World : Six Queens of Egypt
by Kara Cooney
A professor of Egyptology at UCLA explores the lives of the queens of Egypt, including Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra who transcended traditional patriarchal obstacles and describes what the modern world can learn from example.
|
|
|
Killing the SS : the hunt for the worst war criminals in history
by Bill O'Reilly
Traces the daring of Nazi hunters after World War II, revealing the contributions of legal experts, intelligence agents and concentration-camp survivors in tracking down and capturing high-profile Nazis. By the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Killing the Rising Sun
|
|
|
Big Week : the biggest air battle of World War II
by James Holland
Tells the vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe.
|
|
|
Rampage : MacArthur, Yamashita, and the battle of Manila
by James Scott
The author of Target Tokyo presents a history of the Battle of Manila that traces the capture of the Philippine capital by Japanese forces, the massacre of an estimated 100,000 civilians and liberation campaign that ultimately destroyed the city
|
|
|
The death of Hitler : the final word
by Jean-Christophe Brisard
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using new and unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of his final days.
|
|
|
City of light : the making of modern Paris
by Rupert Christiansen
Describes the ambitious public works program initiated in 1853 by Napoleon that transformed of the old medieval Paris of squalor and slums into the "City of Light" encompassing wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments.
|
|
|
Beyond the call : three women on the front lines in Afghanistan
by Eileen Rivers
Follows the experiences of four women who fought in active combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and also worked to gather intelligence about the Taliban from local Afghani women, with whom they were able to cultivate relationships, unlike their male counterparts.
|
|
|
Saving Bravo : the greatest rescue mission in Navy SEAL history
by Stephan Talty
Tells the story of an American aviator—who knew the U.S.'s most important secrets and crashed behind enemy lines, risking capture during the Vietnam War—and how one Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past the enemy to save him.
|
|
|
The souls of yellow folk : essays
by Wesley Yang
In the National Magazine Award-winning write’s debut, he presents a collection of razor-sharp essays on race and gender, exploring ugly trends with radical honesty.
|
|
|
The war outside my window : the Civil War Diary of teenager LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
by Janet Elizabeth Croon
"LeRoy Wiley Gresham of Macon, Georgia kept a series of seven journals between 1860 and 1865 that documents the entirety of the Civil War. Starting at the age of 12, his writing covers not only the changes in Macon, but the socio-economic impact of the conflict on his wealthy family, which owns two plantations about 40 miles southeast of Macon. His journals also trace his internal struggles with his health, giving us a very unique glimpse into the course of his struggle against tuberculosis, a disease which killed thousands each year during the 19th century, and claimed his own life at age 17."--Provided by publisher
|
|
|
A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost
by Frye Gaillard
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. "There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changesspread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning (and I seek to do some of that here), I hope to offer a sense of how it felt. I have tried provide within these pages one writer's reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era--one that, for better or worse, lives with us still."--Provided by publisher
|
|
|
|
|
|