Model Number: BBSS0743298861DLDA
Author: Ignatius, David
When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. Bombs were a daily occurrence and kidnapping an ever-present threat for American journalists. Yet the longer I stayed ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780307345820DLDA
Author: Mccall, Catherine
In her sharply observed and ultimately redemptive memoir, Catherine McCall paints a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of growing up in a complicated Southern family, whose perfect façade hides crippling imperfections. There are two parents, three children, and five ghosts in the McCall family ...more »
Model Number: BBR158836139XDLDA
Author: RICH, FRANK
There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single ghost light is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. Frank Rich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375507000DLDA
Author: CARHART, THAD
Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743249534DLDA
Author: Liftin, Hilary
As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743281772DLDA
Author: Manseau, Peter
The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty -- two eager young parishioners from different towns ...more »
Model Number: BBR0385507194DLDA
Author: CALEY, KATE YOUNG
Fusing an intimate memoir with an outspoken critique of organized religion's failure to welcome all into its community, The House Where the Hardest Things Happened is the moving story of one woman's search for a sense of belonging. Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, Kate Young Caley attends ...more »
Model Number: BBR1588362922DLDA
Author: Stanton, Mike
COP: Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse. BUDDY CIANCI: Now I know why they made you a detective. Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of Providence, Pulitzer Prize ...more »
Model Number: BBHC006134012XDLDA
Author: Maguire, Joe
She is an uncompromising apologist for the right and a hater of all things left. Is there anything she won't do or say to further her agenda? The answer is no. Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter is an unbridled look at a woman who twists the truth, misleads, plays loose with facts and allusions ...more »
Model Number: BBR9781588365125DLDA
Author: Greenberg, Mike
Meet Mike Greenberg, the popular host of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, the highest-rated drive-time sports talk show on the dial. To his three-million-plus listeners, Greeny is the guy who's equally as comfortable dissecting zone defenses as he is discussing cashmere sweaters. He's been ...more »
Model Number: BBS0312704712DLDA
Author: Carlson, Lewis H.
The Korean War POW remains the most maligned victim of all American wars. For nearly half a century, the media, general public, and even scholars have described hundreds of these prisoners as brainwashed victims of a heinous enemy, or, even worse, as turncoats who betrayed their fellow soldiers. In either ...more »