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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
Lily Koppel · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorThe Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn · 445 pages
"A ... narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, working for the Herald Tribune in the Jackie Robinson years ... and what's happened to everybody since."
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills · 278 pages
This book is one journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists h
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller · 238 pages
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy. However, life became i
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Brad Ricca · 436 pages
Presents the true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. "In 1917, on the day before Valentine's Day, eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. When the police gave up, a mysterious woman in black vowed to find her. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy · 368 pages
Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Donald Zochert · 260 pages
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
Sheila Weller · 544 pages
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
Michelle Markel
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline · 306 pages
Manhattan, When I Was Young
Mary Cantwell · 214 pages
With Manhattan, When I Was Young, Mary Gantwell, a former writer and editor at Mademoiselle and Vogue and now a writer at the New York Times, gives us an elegant and lyrical autobiographical account of a time and place that for some exists only in imagination. But this is a life as it was actually lived, with romance, passion, and no little share of pain. Set in five different apartments in Manha
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Marion Meade · 459 pages
Dorothy Parker was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker--a private life, set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts. In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Mea
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Sigrid Nunez · 131 pages
A memoir of the writer responsible for the avant-garde Against Interpretation depicts her as a magnetic, outsized personality and a polarizing presence who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
Joe Posnanski · 276 pages
Documents the author's cross-country travels at the side of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil, a journey during which the pair sought to recapture their love of the game, remembered O'Neil's history-making career, and explored the numerous challenges that the sport has overcome.
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
Luke Barr · 320 pages
Uncorrected Proof - Not For Sale. NOTE: Chapters and narrative pages are numbered. Ditto NOTES AND SOURCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX. But no page numbers are shown in the TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Little Princesses
Marion Crawford · 230 pages
Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, “Uncle David” became King Edward VIII---who abdicated less than a year later to marry the scandalous Wallis Simpso
Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother
Carrie Young · 122 pages
This collection of essays details the author's mother's experiences during her 1904 trek to North Dakota, and her life as a landowner, wife and mother.
February House
Sherill Tippins · 336 pages
February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months b
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig · 528 pages
"Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success" by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig is an investigative account of Donald Trump’s finances, drawing on decades of tax records, business documents, and insider testimony. The book argues that Trump’s public image as a self-made billionaire is largely a myth, built on vast financial support from his fa
Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
Nicolaia Rips · 272 pages
"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick · 308 pages
"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--
Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder
William Anderson, Laura Ingalls Wilder · 80 pages
Photographs and mementos accompany an account of the life and literary career of the author of the well-loved "Little House" books.