Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of N- Author: Geithner, Timothy F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0804138613
- Language: English
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
$21.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, i- Author: Nordberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0307952509
- Language: English
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it–from… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307888770
- Language: English
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100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet
$27.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we’… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593136772
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
” Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of … [more below]- Author: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1400080460
- Language: English
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Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe all-access biography and unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of a pint-sized kid from Long Island who became a music legend.
“A funny, revealing, and poignant look at [Billy] Joel’s … [more below]- Author: Schruers, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0804140219
- Language: English
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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious–And Perplexing–City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L’Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Like so m… [more below]- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076792889X
- Language: English
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
$22.00 Add to cartWe forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t).… [more below]
- Author: Hallinan, Joseph T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0767928067
- Language: English
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The Ferrari in the Bedroom
$19.00 Add to cart“[Jean] Shepherd is that very rare breed, a homespun humorist cut from the same Midwestern cloth as Mark Twain and George Ade.”–Saturday Review
Jean Shepherd was one of America’s favorite humorists,- Author: Shepherd, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0385237928
- Language: English
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
$18.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip w- Author: Lipsky, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 030759243X
- Language: English
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Steve McQueen
$22.00 Add to cartSteve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, … [more below]
- Author: Eliot, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307453227
- Language: English
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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“I had experienced absolute freedom–I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all–and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,00- Author: Abramovic, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101905069
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
$16.00 Add to cartA James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
“Delicious . . . A banquet of ane… [more below]- Author: Von Bremzen, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0307886824
- Language: English
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
$22.00 Add to cartMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in th… [more below]
- Author: Webb, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0767916891
- Language: English
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The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
$18.00 Add to cartA compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.
We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in- Author: Kiehl, Kent A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0770435866
- Language: English
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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning
$30.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, A. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593136748
- Language: English
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars,- Author: Pickens, T. Boone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307396010
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the st- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0767909135
- Language: English
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
$20.00 Add to cartThroughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tal… [more below]
- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0767908163
- Language: English
