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Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Beloved film and television star Tom Selleck chronicles his life both in show business and away from it in this long-awaited memoir. Selleck is best known as the star of Magnum, P.I., one of the most popular and enduring shows of the eighties, and of Blue Bloods, where he plays New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, but his career is longer, and richer, than those two hits suggest. Rich with charm, insight, and a surprising dose of self-deprecating...
2) Hannibal
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 362 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This authoritative biography brings to life one of the great commanders of the ancient world, Hannibal Barca of Carthage, who crossed the Alps with his war elephants to invade Italy and brought Rome to its knees. In the third century BCE, Carthage was the great mercantile power of the Mediterranean world, with colonies from Spain to Sicily. When the increasingly powerful Roman Republic challenged Carthage for primacy in the Mediterranean, Carthage's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran and social media influencer discusses how he overcame both an addiction to prescription painkillers and a severe gambling problem that cost him almost his entire fortune.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the history of the blockbuster brother band, from their childhoods in New Jersey and days as Disney stars to their explosive worldwide fame, contentious breakup, and eventual triumphant reunion.
Author
Publisher
Bridge City Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Trauma blocks love. Love heals trauma. Frank was just six years old when he learned there was something wrong with him. Seriously wrong. But no one told him what it was. Instead, between attending weekly therapy sessions, navigating the passion and violence of his home life, and reading between the lines of dark family secrets, he was left to figure out for himself what the world expected him to be. Despite an unstable childhood, his remarkable intelligence,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." Andso begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...
Author
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. Beginning with his childhood in Belorussia and concluding with his tenure as president, Reinharz and Golani describe how a Russian Jew, who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century, was able to advance the goals of Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization. "--
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot
On November 6,...
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot
On November 6,...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This inspiring true story of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author shows how she went from being the only Black child in her first-grade classroom - and the only student who could read - to becoming one of the greatest writers in modern history.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it, so she and her brother finally did. Nick, an absent father, was a hippie and would-be Beat writer who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick's own father, Gawen-also absent-had been a well-born Englishman who...
18) Rise of a Killah
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The fully-illustrated, anecdote-rich story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members With his fellow New Yorker RZA, Dennis Coles-aka Ghostface Killah-established the Wu-Tang Clan, the legendary hip-hop group whose flexible format (originally seven members, growing to ten, it performs in various combinations and also allows its members solo careers), danceable singles and intimate melodic lyrics have...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
347 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts, in graphic novel format, the life of Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philospher, and his life-long struggle to achieve perfect logic and ultimate truth.
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