The Dark Dad: War and trauma ― a daughter’s tale by: Mary Kisler (Author) Publisher: Massey University Press Publication Date: 2025-07-01 Language: English Print Length: 264 pages ISBN-10: 1991016565 ISBN-13: 9781991016560 Book Description Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhoo...
It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir by: Rex Chapman (Author), Seth Davis (Author) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 2024-02-27 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1982197773 ISBN-13: 9781982197773 Book Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction.He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced ...
Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe by: Violet Moller (Author) Publisher: Pegasus Books Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 163936837X ISBN-13: 9781639368372 Book Description Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories.In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumpt...
Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace by: Professor Michael A. Messner (Author) Publisher: Rutgers University Press Publication Date: 2018-12-17 Language: English Print Length: 292 pages ISBN-10: 1978802811 ISBN-13: 9781978802810 Book Description Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace have been veterans. These veterans for peace come from all different races, classes, regions, an...
Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War’s End by: Barry L Stoddard (Author) Publisher: Koehler Books Publication Date: 2023-03-28 Language: English Print Length: 236 pages ISBN-10: 1646639405 ISBN-13: 9781646639403 Book Description Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challen...
Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays by: Marianna Marlowe (Author) Publisher: She Writes Press Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1647427525 ISBN-13: 9781647427528 Book Description Infused with a passion for justice, this sublime, expansive memoir by a Peruvian American feminist will appeal to fans of Crying in H Mart and How to Raise a Feminist Son. Through braided memories that flash against the present day, Portrait of a Feminist depicts the ...
Wild West Village: Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1) by: Lola Kirke (Author) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 2025-01-28 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 166803557X ISBN-13: 9781668035573 Book Description In this darkly humorous memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit countr...
Say Everything: A Memoir by: Ione Skye (Author) Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1668048264 ISBN-13: 9781668048269 Book Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father.In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed the breakout role of Diane Court, the dream girl who ins...
You Can’t Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off by: Stassi Schroeder (Author) Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 2024-09-10 Language: English Print Length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1668049929 ISBN-13: 9781668049921 Book Description THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From New York Times bestselling author, OG Vanderpump Rules star, and host of the successful podcast Stassi, a “raw, relatable…brutally funny” (Bustle) guide to rethinking the girlboss life, taking ...
Malaparte: A Biography by: Maurizio Serra (Author), Stephen Twilley (Translator) Publisher: New York Review Books Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 736 pages ISBN-10: 1681378701 ISBN-13: 9781681378701 Book Description A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time.Curzio Suckert—best known by...
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