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by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar...
by James Frey
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring.
The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict "West Coast Director...
The Long Goodbye
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review
**From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy.
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field.
Nick Hornby has been...
Plan B
Further Thoughts on Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.
As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental...
The Seven Good Years
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry....
God'll Cut You Down
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial."
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee....
Looking for Palestine
Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity.
The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted...
Perfectly Miserable
Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture—class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate—through the lens of mothers and daughters.
At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her...
Seeking Peace
Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
"An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other
Like most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. She spent her childhood in small Midwestern...
Sempre Susan
A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
**From the author of the The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award.
A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute.**
Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary...
The Psychopath Test
A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the...
A Singular Woman
The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
From the author of The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father comes a major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.
Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known...
The Man Without a Face
The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.
The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress...