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1) Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 2022
Language
English
Description
"Nein, Nein, Nein! is the unbelievable true story of a guided bus tour to Nazi concentration camps, told as only Jerry Stahl can tell it, with an acid wit as deadly serious as it is hilarious, insane, and weirdly life-affirming. The destinations he describes are real, but who else would dare to take us there? Stahl is fearless, gripping, and most unsparing about his own damned soul. I read everything he writes."
—Eric Bogosian, actor/playwright
"There’s...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors&; notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.
Through a series of vignettes, Robby Krieger takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Samuel L. Jackson&;s embodiment of cool isn&;t just inspirational&;it&;s important. Bad Motherfucker lays out how his attitude intersects with his identity as a Black man, why being cool matters in the modern world, and how Jackson can guide us through the current cultural moment in which everyone is losing their cool. Edwards details Jackson&;s fascinating personal history, from stuttering bookworm to gunrunning revolutionary to freebasing addict...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
592 pages : Illustrations (color plates) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
'Bravely pursued, acutely observed and elegantly told.' John Vaillant, author of The Tiger
'Urgent and important. This moving tale with a heroic cast of characters, leonine and human, is a must-read for anyone passionate about wildlife and wild places.' Tony Park, author of Last Survivor
This is the riveting and illuminating story of Australian writer Anthony Ham's extraordinary journey into the world of lions. Haunted by the idea that they might...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A shocking account of how Harvey Weinstein rose to become one of the most iconic figures in the world of movies, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood power game for the New Yorker for three decades. Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, then...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world--and whether that world can be changed. In 2015,...
12) Dante: A Life
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.
However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 238 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom&;the nation&;s highest civilian honor&;for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA&;s first flights into space. Her contributions to America&;s space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie.
In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xliv, 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight in Korea.
Historians have...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there.
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.
The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
Shackleton is a captivating new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership...
20) The dynasty
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How was the Patriots dynasty built? And how did it last for two decades? In The Dynasty, acclaimed journalist Jeff Benedict provides richly reported answers in a sweeping account based on exclusive interviews with more than two hundred insiders, including team executives, coaches, players, players' wives, team doctors, lawyers, and more, as well as never-before-seen recordings, documents, and electronic communications"--