Biography

Three Pianos: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Andrew McMahon

$27.95

ISBN: 9781648960208

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Published: Princeton Architectural Press - October 26th, 2021

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Lyrical, dizzying memoir of a gifted musician's many highs and lows. Road trips, family, friends, bandmates, drugs, disease, booze, relationships, tours, and concerts scatter McMahon's attention and complicate his life. Through it all, his sole solace awaits: his piano. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)

By Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

$30.00

ISBN: 9780062964618

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Published: Harper - September 21st, 2021

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Cooper's family history is rich in drama, ambition, dissipation, and especially money. Examining his ancestors' actions with a cool, compassionate eye, Cooper reveals, time and again, the essential truth that genuine wealth comes in a currency that cannot be bought. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life (Hardcover)

By Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593238868

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Published: Crown - October 19th, 2021

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Ear Hustle is not your run-of-the-mill podcast. It originates from San Quentin prison, and its guests are prisoners. Poor and Woods speak as candidly in the book as they do on the mic, and the often disturbing topics beam a light on men and women that many in society either ignore or abhor. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Smile: The Story of a Face (Hardcover)

By Sarah Ruhl

$27.00

ISBN: 9781982150945

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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 5th, 2021

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Can you be happy, or joyous, if you cannot smile? Bell's palsy robbed Ruhl of that simple, yet transcendent, facial expression years ago. Her resolve to live with purpose while seeking to eradicate her unfortunate grimace becomes, in her words, a profound expression that disfigurement can neither mask, nor hinder, joy. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love (Hardcover)

By Ivan Maisel

$28.00

ISBN: 9780306925740

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Published: Hachette Books - October 26th, 2021

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Losing his 21-year old son to suicide brought unbearable grief to Maisel. In clear-eyed prose honed from a career in journalism, Maisel communicates how embracing, rather than denying, grief allowed him to value his son's life, and his own. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War (Paperback)

By John "Chick" Donohue, J. T. Molloy

$17.99

ISBN: 9780062995476

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 28th, 2021

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A U.S. Marine veteran is "drafted" by his friends to undertake a dangerous and unprecedented journey to deliver local beer- and best wishes and familial greetings- to neighborhood “boys” serving in Vietnam. Donohue's travel log features countless tales of his remarkable luck at actually finding his old friends at their war posts without somehow getting himself killed. Along the way, he refreshes our collective memory regarding how poorly enlisted men were treated stateside and, through his first hand account, fills in details of the war itself that many readers may have long since forgotten or never even known. ~ Reviewed by Jon Fine