Model Number: BBSS0743211537DLDA
Author: King, Stephen
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416507612DLDA
Author: McGregor, Ewan
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor - actor and self-confessed bike nut - noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416506632DLDA
Author: Field, Genevieve
It's all about you. Your apartment. Your job. Your dates. Your sex life. Your time off. Your exercise. Your food. Your music. Your future. What are you waiting for? Who will you love? What is it, really, that you want? The life of a single woman in the twenty-first century is full of new connections ...more »
Model Number: BBAL3894807504DLDA
Author: Sixt, Andrea
Es war kurz vor Weihnachten, als Andrea Sixt glaubte, am Anfang eines Alptraums zu stehen. Diagnose Brustkrebs. Ihr Partner konnte damit nicht umgehen, die Beziehung zerbrach. Mit eindrucksvoller Offenheit beschreibt die Autorin die verschiedenen Stufen ihres Lebens nach der Brustamputation: Ihre grenzenlose ...more »
Model Number: BBR0385505345DLDA
Author: CLANCY, LIAM
In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and '60s. Following in the grand tradition ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743272609DLDA
Author: Jacobs, A. J.
33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0060775343DLDA
Author: Hornbacher, Marya
Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743217225DLDA
Author: Dudman, Martha Tod
A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman wants the perfect life for her children. But when Augusta turns fifteen, she is drawn into a whirling vortex of troubled adolescence, hurting herself and her mother, who would do anything to save her. This daring book will be admired for its lyricism, applauded for ...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 »