 |
| |
All Non-Fiction |
|
|
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
Miles Harvey · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The riveting story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, until his assassination in 1856.In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Oliver Stone · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
Jon Billman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
|
|
For readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, the critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people who vanish in the wilderness without a trace and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. These are the stories that... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tip of the Spear: The Incredible Story of an Injured Green Beret's Return to Battle
Ryan Hendrickson · Center Street
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Sergeant First Class (SFC) Ryan Hendrickson is a brave, determined, and courageous soldier -- a Green Beret clearing the way for his twelve-man team while conducting combat operations against the Taliban. As the "tip of the spear," his role is to insure the route taken by U.S.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change in a Nonlinear Age
Bruce Feiler · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, a pioneering study of the disruptions upending contemporary life and a bold guide for how to navigate life's growing number of transitions with more meaning, balance, and joy. Bruce Feiler... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
Lady Colin Campbell · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This blockbuster narrative provides the first behind-the-scenes, authoritative account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's marriage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Diana in Private.The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.
Now two friends,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
