Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke..... More
Anchor, May 2011. Trade Paperback. This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron--one of baseball's immortal figures--is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. "Beautifully written and culturally important." --The Washington Post "The epic baseball tale of the second half of the..... More
Harper, January 2021. Hardcover. "Far from growing up in the wealthy, fox-hunting circles she had always suggested, her mother had in fact been raised in a foundling hospital for the children of unwed women." -- Editor's Choice, The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary ... fascinating, moving." --The Telegraph "This..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 2021. Hardcover. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the..... More
Ecco, May 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
St. Martins Griffin, February 2006. Trade Paperback. Prate Marshbanks proposed to his future wife on a muggy July night at Pete's Drive-in back in '52. She said yes to me between bites of a slaw burger all-the-way. A college graduate and daughter of a prominent lawyer, Irene was an unlikely..... More
Counterpoint, January 2022. Hardcover. Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged..... More
Chantal was an A Cappella bookseller throughout most of our years on Moreland until shortly after our move to Haralson in 2012. Her profoundly beautiful debut novel, "None But the Righteous," confirms the promise she showed from the first day she walked into the store exclaiming with the incomparable confidence of a soon-to-be college graduate (and Fulbright Scholar): "you should hire me to work here." Now, I can say, with equal confidence: "you should read this book."
David R. Godine, Publisher, September 2021. Hardcover. "Reads like a mystery"--PBS News Hour "You'll find it hard to put down." --NPR, "Books We Love" When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing..... More
Grove Press, November 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." --Ann Patchett By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection..... More
Grove Press, March 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick A New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection "I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life..... More
Hachette Books, October 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love. In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, July 2007. Trade Paperback. A town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval "An American variation on Albert Camus' The Plague."--Chicago Tribune NAMED ONE OF THE BEST..... More
Little, Brown UK, August 2021. Hardcover. Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence. Atlanta, 1956. When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper..... More
A first-rate crime novel and a penetrating portrait of racial and political turmoil in Atlanta on the brink of the Civil Rights era.
Crown, November 2020. Hardcover. A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW..... More
Penguin Press, July 2021. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to..... More
Penguin Press, April 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise." --Celeste..... More
Henry Holt and Co., March 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Liz Scheier's darkly funny and touching memoir--with shades of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók's The Memory Palace--of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother Scheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller..... More
Random House, January 2022. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - An enduring account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "I will stake my reputation on you being blown away..... More
It's hard to say if "Lost & Found" overflows more with the author's exquisitely expressed emotions or with her dazzling erudition. Suffice it to say there's more of both than one often finds in a season's worth of literature, much less in one slender, intimate memoir. One of the many arguments Schulz makes in this wonder of a book is that there is not nearly as much profound writing and thinking about the pleasures of lasting love as there is about the agony of its absence. This powerful, gorgeous book does more than its part to correct that imbalance.
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Paper Back. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence..... More
Soho Press, March 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other's way, but desire, fury..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2017. Paper Back. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Now, drawing on the story of..... More
