From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to...
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- Author:Jerkins, MorganSummary:
- Author:Burnett, CarolSummary:
In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the...
- Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:
The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin...
- Author:Schieffer, Bob.Summary:
In this memoir, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News goes beyond the news events everyone is familiar with to share the compelling anecdotes only his colleagues were previously privy to.
- Author:Perlroth, NicoleSummary:
"Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding." - The New Yorker From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market—the most secretive, invisible,...
- Author:Poor, NigelSummary:
An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle "A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast...
- Author:Merkin, DaphneSummary:
A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime.
- Author:Hall, BobbySummary:
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket . This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life...
- Author:Anderson, HeatherSummary:
By age twenty-five, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail-a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical...
- Author:Grandin, TempleSummary:
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and...
- Author:Ford, Clyde W.Summary:
John Stanley Ford became IBM's first black software engineer. But not all of the company's white employees accepted having a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not...
- Author:Hill, NapoleonSummary:
Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it....
- Author:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSummary:
Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
- Author:Valtonen, JussiSummary:
Joe Chayefski has got what he always wanted: a reputation as one of America's top neuroscientists, a beautiful wife and two perfect daughters. But his carefully created idyll is threatened when his Baltimore neuroscience lab is...
- Author:Gallego, RubenSummary:
From the Arizona Congressman, a 21st-century Band of Brothers chronicling the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were "Lucky Lima." Infantryman Ruben...
- Author:Rodgers, SugarSummary:
Sugar Rodgers describes growing up in dire poverty, being homeless, struggling with academics, and clinging to basketball to keep focused and sane and then becoming an all-star in the Women's National Basketball Association.
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
Presents the continuing adventures of Father Tim and his shaggy, scripture-loving dog, Barnabus.
- Author:Andersen, Christopher P.Summary:
They were the original power couple--outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kennedys in their final year together, Christopher Andersen shows us a side...
- Author:Robinson, LisaSummary:
An influential music columnist for "The New York Post" presents an insider's assessment of major rock-and-roll personalities while tracing her career and the genre's evolution throughout the past four decades.
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings...