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by Matt Haig
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Matt Haig’s accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.
**From the author of How To Stop Time, coming February 2018 from Viking.
"Destined to become a modern classic." —Entertainment Weekly**
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The Pigeon Tunnel
Stories from My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur — by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy...
A Rope and a Prayer
The Story of a Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him.
Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the...
by Mary Karr
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl...
Careless People
Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Kirkus (STARRED review)
"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”
The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from...
The Kid
What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens...
The Opposite of Fate
Memories of a Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins
Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy....
The Girls of Murder City
Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago
Chicago, 1924.
There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders...
Minor Characters
A Beat Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
**Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and...
Going Solo
The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change
In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than...
The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity
At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western...
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”
Memory...
The Most Dangerous Book
The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
**Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
“The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times**
James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the...
by Gretchen Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
In the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox—working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill O’Reilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities—is more relevant than ever.
In this candid memoir,...