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You can't take it with you,
of course, but we certainly do value and
treasure our precious things while we're
here. Salman Akhtar’s beautiful book is a
fascinating historical, cultural, and
psychological exploration of the objects
that occupy our lives from family heirlooms
to everyday objects.
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The sparkling memoir of a
movie icon's life in the footlights and on
camera, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND ME tells the
extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many
years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with
his early days in Brooklyn and his college
years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming
an actor, this book follows his career as
one of the earliest members of the famed
Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner...
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Freudian Matthew von
Unwerth’s FREUD REQUIEM places
Sigmund Freud, the father of
psychoanalysis, on the couch and
reinterprets psychoanalysis as "a
science of mourning," while he explores
the redemptive possibilities of
storytelling, memory, and the creative
process....
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In THE INTERPRETER, Kaplan
tackles an unexplored moment in American
history. Set in the fall of 1944, her
history begins with the hanging of two black
GIs in Brittany, France - one in a farmer’s
field, the other in front of an abandoned
chateau. They were part of the segregated
U.S. army liberating France ...
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"Most makeovers are only
skin deep. But this new guidebook to getting
smarter faster by an acclaimed education
specialist gives readers the tools and
self-knowledge they need to reinvent
themselves from the inside out—and gain new
confidence and success in all aspects of
life..."
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"Leading pulmonologist
Neil Schachter, M.D., explains how to avoid
illness, boost immunity, and combat
congestion, fever,and discomfort when cold,
flu, and other respiratory infections
strike. Among other things, he shows..."
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Would it be possible to
live without the designer coffee, the Kate
Spade bags, the technology that was a part
of my every day existence? Could stripping
away some of those items and habits make me
appreciate what I was so fortunate to have?
I created a plan. Each month for one year, I
would chose one of my favorite things...
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THE POWER OF PURPOSE begins
with a simple but remarkable statement: "The
more you focus on helping others, the more
you will succeed in reaching your own
goals." Peter S. Temes builds on this
fundamental insight to share a simple plan
for living with the truest and most enduring
kind of happiness. At the heart of THE POWER
OF PURPOSE are the “three levels of...
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As a master baker, painter
and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta has been
using the mathematical principles of The
Golden Ratio (an integral plot element in
The Da Vinci Code) for more than 30 years.
His realization that this seemingly magic
formula, used by Da Vinci and other geniuses
of the Renaissance, held the secret to
optimal health and weight loss led him to...
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Everyone has a part of
himself that no one else knows about. In a
teenager, it’s a healthy move towards
becoming independent. In an adult, it can
keep the spark of romance alive. But when do
secrets become destructive? What drives a
person to live a double life – to be a
soccer dad by day and a pimp by night? To
live one part law-abiding, upstanding
citizen while ...
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Matt Sanford’s life and
body were irrevocably changed at age
thirteen on a snowy Iowa road. On that day,
his family’s car skidded off an overpass,
killing Matt’s father and sister and leaving
him paralyzed from the chest down and
confined to a wheelchair. His mother and
brother escaped from the accident unharmed
but were left to pick up the pieces of their
decimated family...
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By focusing on Japan's
psychological malaise and confining social
institutions, Shutting Out the Sun explains
how the rigidity of its tradition-steeped
society, and its refusal to accept the cries
for individual creativity and social trust
endemic to modernity, ultimately stifle
Japan's economic growth and political
evolution. Disquieting and politically
controversial...
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"Prisoner of Trebekistan"
is so effortlessly funny and informative,
the fact that it's also tender, human and
very wise kind of sneak up on you. Bob
Harris has snuck a quirky and fascinating
personal narrative into his pop culture
'expose'. Amidst the nerve-wracking Jeopardy
showdowns and hilarious study rituals he has
found the difference between facts and
knowledge, between knowledge and wisdom, and
proved...
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An insightful collection of essays about starting over in midlife from a
fresh and funny new voice.
Katherine Lanpher officially moved to Manhattan on a leap day, transferring
from a rooted life in the Midwest to a new job, a new city, and a new sense
of who she was. But reinvention is a tricky business, and starting over in
the middle of life isn’t for the faint of heart...
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"Without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no
concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a
small space…the history of the human spirit and to make it his own,
he can only do this in the form of a collection of books."
--Hermann Hesse, The Magic of Books
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Nonfiction coming in 2012
January:
A SIMPLE
ACT OF GRATITUDE (originally published as 365 Thank Yous)
by John Kralik, paperback.
February:
A CENTURY OF WISDOM:
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, The World’s Oldest
Living Holocaust Survivor by Caroline Stoessinger.
March:
DREAMING IN FRENCH: The Paris Years of Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan.
July: THE
ORCHARD by Theresa Weir, paperback.
September:
SMART
PARENTING, SMARTER KIDS by David Walsh, paperback.
November/December: MR. OWITA’S GUIDE TO GARDENING by
Carol Wall, FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF BOB by Bob Harris |
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