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I Know What I'm Doing -- and Other Lies I Tell Myself
Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman delivers a hilarious, candid memoir about marriage, divorce, sex, turning forty, and still not quite having life figured out.
Jen Kirkman wants to be the voice in your head that says, Hey, you’re okay. Even if you sometimes...
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons
Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
PARENT S: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Greg Fitzsimmons has made a lot of what appear to be bad decisions. It’s what he was raised to do. Most parents would hide or destroy any evidence so clearly demonstrating their child’s failures, but—lucky for us—Greg Fitzsimmons’s family has preserved...
The Dylanologists
Adventures in the Land of Bob
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A joyous and poignant exploration of the meaning of fandom, the healing power of art, and the importance of embracing what moves you, “The Dylanologists is juicy…artfully told…and an often moving chronicle of the ecstasies and depravities of obsession” (New York Daily News).
Bob Dylan...
This Generation
Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come—an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate...
Sueños Sencillos
Memorias musicales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2013
En esta memoria, la cantante icónica Linda Ronstadt entreteje una historia cautivante de sus orígenes en Tucson, Arizona, y su ascenso a la fama en la escena musical del sur de California en los años 60 y 70.
Al rastrear la cronología de su extraordinaria vida, Linda Ronstadt, una artista...
The Grouchy Historian
An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.
Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat...
Early Bird
A Memoir of Premature Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it -- forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village,...
Jesse
A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen.
In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse’s...
I Got The Show Right Here
The Amazing, True Story of How an Obscure Brooklyn Horn Player Became the Last Great Broadway Showman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Guys & Dolls...The Boyfriend...How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...Can-Can... These are just a few of the many Broadway shows produced by the legendary Cy Feuer, who, in partnership with the late Ernest H. Martin, brought to life many of America's most enduring musicals.
Cy Feuer...
by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).
Based on...
by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.
Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war...
When Pride Still Mattered
A Life Of Vince Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher,...
The Restless Wave
Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for...