The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our firstand finds he s not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews He was transported to Auschwitz Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book Of thirty four Neumann family
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a sought after TV executive who had worked with Jon Stewart and launched Key Peele to viral superstardom By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown up But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious,
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
A potent and electrifying critique of today s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism Today s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but
Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam
A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history A missing young woman A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery A cold case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon and for one determined journalist, a life changing quest toward uncomfortable truths Twenty one year old Vancouver
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
From the creator of Elle s Eric Reads the News, a poignant and hilarious memoir in essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding his joy, and every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way R Eric Thomas didn t know he was different until the world told him so Everywhere he
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale Douglas Preston comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933 In a lab filled with curiosities beakers,
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an award winning poet and essayist Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity In the
Brother & Sister
From the beloved film star and best selling author of Then Again a heartfelt memoir about her relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings lives can take When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her
In the Land of Men
A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller s personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace A naive and idealistic twenty two year old from the Midwest, Adrienne
Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
This is a story she needed to tell and the rest of the country needs to listen New York Times Book ReviewThis vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what
A Black Women's History of the United States
A revealing historyat once sobering and empoweringshowing Black women s expansive contributions since the 1600s Spanning over 400 years, this book, written by two award winning Black women historians, prioritizes all voices from poor and working class domestics to middle class reform women to sex
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it an urgent work of literary journalism I don t know a complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a dogged reporter in
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
From the writer of Slates Dear Prudence column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culturefrom the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure.Sometimes you just have to yell New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre Daniel M.