In Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives–the ones we’d like to pretend never happened–are in fact the ones that define us, and makes hilarious hay out of her rural Texas upbringing. Paris, I Love You But [...]
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Many mother-daughter relationships have rocky periods. . . .these three daughters tell their unusual, non-traditional stories. As a teenager, Vanessa defied her mother Helen, flirting with boys, drinking, and smoking pot. But despite their early conflicts, Helen has always ardently protected her daughter, staying in contact with the FBI about the multiple death threats Vanessa received [...]
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In Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott gave us a journal of her son’s first year. Now, in Some Assembly Required, she enters a new and unexpected chapter: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax’s life. [...]
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Biographies and memoirs of some of the original reporters from Sixty Minutes, plus a few minutes with Andy Rooney! A personal accounting Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, includes his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, his coverage of the JFK assassination, the origin of “Hurricane Dan” [...]
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Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball’s Greatest Gift is the story of how a unique friendship between a pitcher and catcher is renewed every year. Yankees pitching great Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They [...]
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 is the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, beginning where the first volume Reborn : journals and notebooks, 1947-1963, left off. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned [...]
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Born to be Brad is the story of Brad Goreski , the fun-loving, bow-tie-wearing celebrity stylist. Fans of BravoTV have watched the reality star climb his way through the ranks of the fashion world, as he transformed himself from an assistant stylist into a full-fledged style icon. Landing an internship and later a job at [...]
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Raised by adoptive parents in a grimy north England industrial town, Jeanette Winterson endured a religious fanatic of a mother with a revolver in the dresser and a tendency to lock her daughter out of the house at night. When her past caught up with the author, [...]
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Out of My League Picking up where the The Bullpen Gospels leaves off, Out of My League continues Canton native Dirk Hayhurst’s hilarious roller-coaster baseball odyssey through his rookie season with San Diego Padres. The Rotation: A Season with the Phillies and the Greatest Pitching Staff Ever Assembled Written by two Philadelphia Phillies beat writers, Jim [...]
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On Presidents Day, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and our other elected presidents take the spotlight. But take time to look over these biographies of those who ran for that highest elected office. . . .and did not win. John W. Dean, of Watergate renown, and Barry Goldwater, Jr. gathered and edited the journals [...]
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