Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by: Sarah Wynn-Williams (Author) Publisher: Flatiron Books Publication Date: 2025-03-11 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 1250391237 ISBN-13: 9781250391230 Book Description #1 New York Times Bestseller“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking…Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods.” -Jennifer Szalai,...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe by: Nancy Goldstone (Author) Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 640 pages ISBN-10: 0316419427 ISBN-13: 9780316419420 Book Description From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling, “richly detailed, entertaining” chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century...
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution by: Joyce E. Chaplin (Author) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: 2025-03-11 Language: English Print Length: 432 pages ISBN-10: 037461380X ISBN-13: 9780374613808 Book Description A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of March“[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” ―The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” ―Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–...
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 by: Helen Garner (Author) Publisher: Pantheon Publication Date: 2025-03-11 Language: English Print Length: 832 pages ISBN-10: 0553387499 ISBN-13: 9780553387490 Book Description For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force.“This is one for the introverts — the wary and the peevish, the uncertain of their looks, taste...
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by: Bernice L. McFadden (Author) Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 0593184971 ISBN-13: 9780593184974 Book Description From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters. On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash n...
The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice by: Jack Fairweather (Author) Publisher: Crown Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 496 pages ISBN-10: 059323894X ISBN-13: 9780593238943 Book Description From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.At the end ...
Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation by: Sarah Cooper (Author) Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 2023-10-03 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0593473183 ISBN-13: 9780593473184 Book Description In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut h...
Memorial Days: A Memoir by: Geraldine Brooks (Author) Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 2025-02-04 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 059365398X ISBN-13: 9780593653982 Book Description A New York Times Bestseller“Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. … Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it’s moreover a lifeline to others who will find them...
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe by: John J. Callanan (Author) Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 2025-01-14 Language: English Print Length: 328 pages ISBN-10: 0691165440 ISBN-13: 9780691165448 Book Description A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth centuryIn 1714, doctor, philosopher...
I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries by: Lori Zimmer (Author), Maria Krasinski (Illustrator) Publisher: Running Press Adult Publication Date: 2025-02-25 Language: English Print Length: 200 pages ISBN-10: 0762485388 ISBN-13: 9780762485383 Book Description An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by the...
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