And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood
A journey through the many ways to live an artistic life from the flashy and famous to the quiet and steady full of unexpected insights about creativity and contentment, from the author of The Good Girl s Guide to Getting Lost Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid She quit music in
The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
From the daughter of one of America s most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace s legacy of hate and illuminates her journey towards redemption In the summer of 1963, Peggy Wallace Kennedy was a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as
Awful Beautiful Life: When God Shows Up in the Midst of Tragedy
A gripping story of grace, faith, and triumph for a woman whose world shattered hours after her husband s suicide Rebecca Powell faced the unthinkable on May 16, 2013 Her husband Mark called and said, I ve done something terrible Within hours, she learned that he had taken his own life and,
Once More To The Rodeo: A Memoir
Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self doubt and full of questions How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America And what does it even
In the Dream House
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same sex relationship In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Machado tackles a dark and difficult subject with wit, inventiveness and an inquiring spirit, as she uses a series of
Little Weirds
Hello and welcome to my book Inside you will find The smell of honeysuckle Heartbreak A French kissing rabbit A haunted house Death A vagina singing sad old songs Young geraniums in an ancient castle Birth A dog who appears in dreams as a spiritual guide Divorce Electromagnetic energy
Acid For The Children
The iconic bassist and co founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you d want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on October 16, 1962 His
The Crying Book
Award winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying She could
A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston
After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
National Book Award winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history Michelle ObamaInMighty Justice, trailblazing African Americancivil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts herinspiring life storythat speaks