Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn n nBy the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men So, she left her home and every
The Hilarious World of Depression
For years John Moe, critically acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, struggled with depression it plagued his family and claimed the life of his brother in 2007 As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see similar patterns of behavi
Officer Clemmons
Details the incredible life story of Fran ois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality, to a chance encounter with Fred Ro
Fairest: A Memoir
A singular, beautifully written coming of age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender n nFairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a sun child
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye opening journey through the South s past, present, and future n nAnchored in in Bakari Seller s hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain that continues to fertilize the soil of one of
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
A page turning biography of world changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him n nIn the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize the
Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime Her mother s nAs a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the des
Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
Since the release of her first, career defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry s most enduring and ingenious artists From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in Me and a Gun to her post 9 11 album Scarlet s Walk to her latest album Native Invader
Banned Book Club
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up After acing her exams and sort of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age n nPublished in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who chan
Educated
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home canned peaches and sleeping with her head for the hills bag In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and heale
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
The memoir of one man s coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed n nTrevor Noah s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act his birth Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a bl
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
As President Trump s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves n nThe result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
n The incredible true story of the women who fought America s Undark danger nThe Curies newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shine
Rodham
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what might have been What if Hillary Rodham hadn t married Bill Clinton n nIn 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commenceme
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company s early days as an intrepid start up and its evolution into one of the world s most iconic, game changing, and profitable brands.In 1962, fresh out of business school,