Non Fiction
CALCULATED RISK: THE SUPERSONIC LIFE AND TIMES OF GUS GRISSOM
Written by Leopold, George
Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walk on the moon and return to describe his journey. Others went in his place. The stories of the moon walkers are familiar. Less appreciated are Grissom's contributions.
WHEN PARIS SIZZLED: THE 1920S PARIS OF HEMINGWAY, CHANEL, COCTEAU, COLE PORTER, JOSEPHINE BAKER, AND THEIR FRIENDS
Written by McAuliffe, Mary
When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them--one in which art and architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and behavior all took dramatically new forms.
MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR: THE SURPRISING SECRETS OF AMERICA'S WEALTHY (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY)
Written by Danko, William D
"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent.
GUARDS CAME THROUGH: A HISTORY OF THE GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR
Written by Doughty, Simon
- Informative, beautiful, moving, in words and pictures, of the elite British soldiers of World War I - Story told from within: Simon Doughty served with the Guards, as did eminent introducer Sir Michael Howard - Contains brand new research on the complex history of the regiments, their formation and dissolution and the campaigns in which they fought The story of the Guards in the First World War
OSCAR WILDE'S LAST STAND: DECADENCE, CONSPIRACY, AND THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS TRIAL OF THE CENTURY
Written by Hoare, Philip
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called "a shocking tale of heroes and villains--illuminating and upsetting in equal measure." The first production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in London spearheaded by Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed
HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by Bruce, Lenny
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened.
GAME OF QUEENS: THE WOMEN WHO MADE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Written by Gristwood, Sarah
Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period. -- Alison Weir Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule.
PEDIGREE: A MEMOIR
Written by Modiano, Patrick
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme. "Terse, yet somehow infinitely generous, Pedigree both enacts and accounts for Modiano's fraught relationship with memory and the past--his own and those of his country."--Kaiama L.
PROUST: THE SEARCH
Written by Taylor, Benjamin
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work.
LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Written by Davidson, James West
"This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers "Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America's past and present. . . .
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