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Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter

by Nina MacLaughlin

Published: 2016-03-21

Paperback: 240 pages

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“Reading Hammer Head, like consuming Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, feels like a crucial education.”?Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment WeeklyNina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she...

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Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win

by Paul M. Barrett

Published: 2015-09-22

Paperback: 320 pages

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The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action...

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Hope: Entertainer of the Century

by Richard Zoglin

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 576 pages

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“Revelatory…fascinating” (The New York Times): The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes the persuasive case that he was the most important entertainer of the twentieth century.With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash...

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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

by Peter Galison

Published: 2004-09-17

Paperback: 400 pages

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"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre."?New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, par...

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In a Rocket Made of Ice: The Story of Wat Opot, a Visionary Community for Children Growing Up with AIDS

by Gail Gutradt

Published: 2015-06-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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In 1997 Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic who served in Vietnam, returned to South East Asia offer his service . With Vandin San, a brilliant young Cambodian aid worker, he transformed Wat Opot, a haunted scrubland behind a ruined temple, into a place of healing and respite...

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Alligator Candy: A Memoir

by David Kushner

Published: 2016-03-15

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Flori...

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Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir

by David Berg

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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A searing family memoir, hailed as “remarkable” (The New York Times), “compelling” (People), and “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews), of a trial lawyer’s tempestuous boyhood in Texas that led to the vicious murder of his brother by the father of actor Woody Harrelson.In 1968, David...

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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

by Vivian Gornick

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 192 pages

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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce AttachmentsA memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms,...

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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 448 pages

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A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what...

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Alexandria Quartet

by Lawrence Durrell

Published: 2012-02-16

Paperback: 896 pages

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Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley a...