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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
The Unexpected Genius of Pigs
Author: Matt Whyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our...
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...
How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It...
Standing Up!: My Story of Hope, Advocacy and Survival After Stroke
Author: Kathleen with Steggall, Vicki Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Kathleen Jordan was a vibrant businesswoman, mother and grandmother until one morning in 2011 she suffered a massive...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
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Author: Professor of History Camilla Townsend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in...
Drinking the Rain
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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 242 A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated...
The Village of Waiting
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Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Back in print, the "masterful" (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West Africa Now restored to...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir
Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny,...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
The Dark Child
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Author: Ernest Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French...
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 332 In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it...
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend
Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...
How to be a Girl: A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter
Author: Marlo Mack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When...
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir
Author: Jan Grue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I am not talking about surviving... I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
Notes from an Island
Author: Tove Jansson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrom, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In
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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper
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Author: Carol Ann Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Original, intelligent and thought-provoking, Carol Ann Lee's book sheds new light on to the human stories behind the headlines. A...
George Mackay Brown
Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century
Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land
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Author: Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary...
Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
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Author: John Kaag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection. --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by...
Why I Read
Author: Wendy Lesser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In...
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Author: Laura Claridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute...
The Two Kinds of Decay
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Author: Sarah Manguso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice The events that began in 1995...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
The Language of Blood
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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is...
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir
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Author: Carmen Bugan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan...
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
Author: Mia Bay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells' refusal to...
Poser
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Author: Claire Dederer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by...
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital....
My Brother
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and...
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
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Author: Daphne Sheldrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause.--The Boston Globe The first...
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
Author: James Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life...
Gamelife: A Memoir
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Author: Michael W Clune (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
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Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Shelf Awareness Best...
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
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Author: Amy Seek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their...
Trickster Travels
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Author: Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan...
My Queer War: A powerful story of sexual awakening during the second WorldWar from the noted memorist and critic
Author: James Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In "My Queer War", James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of...
Role Models
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Author: John Waters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Role Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time. From...
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
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Author: Sari Nusseibeh (Al Quds University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 584 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to...