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A bold fresh piece of humanity
Bill O'Reilly.
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x, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
In his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to immensely influential television personality and bestselling author. Readers will learn how his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and his schools, and how his views on America's proper role in the world emerged from covering four wars on five continents over three-plus decades as a news correspondent.
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Epilogue : a memoir
Anne Roiphe.
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214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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An exact replica of a figment of my imagination : a memoir
Elizabeth McCracken.
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184 p. ; 22 cm.
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Harry S. Truman
Robert Dallek.
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xviii, 183 p. ; 22 cm.
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Harry S. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a "splendid misery," but it was during his tenure that the United States truly came of age.
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The house at Sugar Beach
Helene Cooper.
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354 p. ; 22 cm.
The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
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Hurry down sunshine
Michael Greenberg.
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234 p. ; 23 cm.
Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months.
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The other half : the life of Jacob Riis and the world of immigrant America
Tom Buk-Swienty ; translated from the Danish by Annette Buk-Swienty.
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xvi, 331 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In the land of invisible women : a female doctor's journey in the Saudi kingdom
Qanta Ahmed.
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454 p. ; 23 cm.
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Letter to my daughter
Maya Angelou.
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166 p. ; 22 cm.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice -- Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.
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Résistance : a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France
Agnès Humbert ; translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor ; afterword by Julien Blanc.
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x, 370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance--very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter, Résistance, gave the French Resistance its name.) In the throes of their struggle for freedom, the members of Humbert's group were betrayed to the Gestapo; Humbert herself was imprisoned. In immediate, electrifying detail, Humbert describes her time in prison, her deportation to Germany, where for more than two years she endured a string of brutal labor camps, and the horror of discovering that seven of her friends were executed by a firing squad. But through the direst of conditions, and ill health in the labor camps, Humbert retains hope for herself, for her friends, and for humanity. Originally published in France in 1946, the book was soon forgotten and is now translated into English for the first time.--From publisher description.
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Pieces of my heart : a life
Robert Wagner with Scott Eyman.
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viii, 326 p., [24] p. of plates ; ports. ; 24 cm.
"Pieces of My Heart" offers a moving, candid, and deeply personal look at the triumphs and tragedies, loves, and heartbreaks of one of Hollywood's most popular and enduring stars.
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Polanski
Christopher Sandford.
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xi, 387 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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