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199,"2017-04-08 02:05:32","Medium Raw A Bloody Valentine to...",,"Anthony Bourdain",9780061718953,0061718955,"Trade Paperback",05/03/2011,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",P.S.,,281,.80IN,5.30IN,.75,,,,,,B,"Biography - General|Biography-Cooking",,
200,"2017-04-06 02:36:52","My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That...",,"Ruth Reichl",9781400069989,140006998X,Hardcover,09/29/2015,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,327,9.75,7.00,1.50,,,,,,,"Cooking and Food-General",,
201,"2017-04-28 20:30:01","Nasty Bits",,"Anthony Bourdain",9780747579816,0747579814,"Trade Paperback",,"TRAFALGAR SQUARE",,,,,,,,,2800747579818,,,,,,
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203,"2017-04-08 15:32:33","My Life in France",,"Child, Julia and Prud'homme, Alex",9781400043460,1400043468,Hardcover,04/04/2006,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,317,1.14IN,6.99IN,1.25,1,Yes,2801400043462,"Alex Prud'homme",,B,"History|Cooks|Biography-Cooking|Cooks -- United States.|Personal Memoirs",,
204,"2017-04-02 18:47:44","Food A Love Story","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsJIM GAFFIGAN is a stand-up comedian, actor, and bestselling author of Dad is Fat. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jeannie, and their five children. About the AuthorCURRICULUM VITAE   What are my qualifications to write this book? None, really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. Okay, to some I might not be considered that fat, but the point is, I’m not thin. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating, I’d highly recommend that you do not read his book. I’m not talking about someone who is merely in good shape. I’m talking thin. Skinny. I wouldn’t trust them skinnies with food advice. First of all, how do you know they really feel pas­sionately about food? Well, obviously they are not passionate enough to overdo it. That’s not very passionate. Anyway, I’m overweight.   I’ll admit it. I consciously try not to take food advice from thin people. I know this may not be fair, but when Mario Batali talks, I always think, Well, this is a guy who knows what he’s talking about. He actually has experience eating food. This is why some sportscasters wonder what’s going on in a player’s head during a tense moment in a game, but the sportscaster who was once a player knows what’s going on in a player’s head. When I talk about food, I like to think I’m like one of those sportscasters who used to play profes­sionally. I’m like the Ray Lewis or Terry Bradshaw of eat­ing. I’m like the Tony Siragusa of eating. Well, that’s a little redundant.   When a thin person announces, “Here’s a great taco place,” I kind of shut down a little. How do they know it’s so great? From smelling the tacos? If they only ate one taco, the taco could not have been that great. Or maybe it was great, but the thin person cared more about the calories than the taste: “I had to stop at one taco. I’m on a diet.” A taco that won’t force you to break your diet just can’t be that great. Fat people know the consequences of eating, but if the food is good enough, they just don’t care. Overweight people have chosen food over ap­pearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.   Speaking of thin people, another person it makes no sense to take advice from is the waiter. Why do fancy restaurants always hire thin, good-­looking people to be the waiters? “I’ll have the hamburger, and I want someone who is at least an 8 to bring it over to me. Can I see some headshots?” Why would we care what the waiter looks like? Even if we did, why would we take the waiter’s advice? We don’t know him. He is a stranger. “Well, he works there.” Does that make him have similar taste in things you like? Does that make him honest? Not to sound paranoid, but the waitstaff does have a financial incentive for you to order something more expensive: “Well, I highly recom­mend the 16-­ounce Kobe Beef with Lobster and the bottle of 1996 Dom Perignon.”   What restaurants really need is a fat-­guy food expert. Many fine-dining establishments have a sommelier—­a wine expert—­to assist in wine selection, but if a restaurant really cares about food, they should have a “Fattelier.”   FATTELIER: Well, I’d get the chili cheese fries with the cheese on the side. You get more cheese that way.   ME: Thank you, Fattelier.   Although they can’t be thin, the food adviser can’t be too fat. If they are morbidly obese, then you can conclude that they will probably eat everything and anything and do not have dis­cerning taste. This is not to say that they won’t have valuable views. I’d still trust an overly fat person over a skinny one any day. The best adviser would have a very specific body type: pudgy or just a little overweight. This makes it clear they have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food, but not a clini­cal problem. They are eating beyond feeling full. Sure, I am describing my own body type, but that’s why I am qualified to write this book about food. What other credentials do you need, really? Stop being a snob. Read the book already.       STEAK: THE MANLY MEAT   As a child I was confused by my father’s love of steak. I remem­ber being eight and my dad ceremoniously announcing to the family, “We’re having steak tonight!” as if Abe Lincoln were coming over for dinner. My siblings and I would politely act excited as we watched TV. “That’s great, Dad!” I remember thinking, Big deal. Why can’t we just have McDonald’s? To me, my father just had this weird thing with steak. I thought, Dads obsess about steak the way kids obsess about candy. Well, my dad did. I’d watch him trudge out behind our house in all types of weather to the propane grill after me or one of my brothers barely averted death by lighting it for him. He would happily take his post out there, chain-­smoking his Merit Ultra Light cigarettes and drinking his Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch alone in the darkness of Northwest Indiana. He’d stare into the flame like it was an ancient oracle relaying a prophecy that solved the mysteries of life.   Given the sheer joy that standing at the grill gave my father, I was always amazed by how bad he was at cooking a steak. Maybe it was the grilling in virtual darkness, or maybe it was the Scotch, but his steaks were usually really burnt and often had the flavor of cigarette ashes. At the table he would try to justify the charred meat in front of the family: “You like it well done, right?” Again, my siblings and I would politely lie. “It’s great, Dad. Thanks.” I think I actually grew to enjoy the taste of A.1. Steak Sauce mixed with cigarette ash. A.1. was always on the table when my dad would grill steaks. It seems everyone I knew had that same thin bottle of A.1. It always felt like it was empty right before it flooded your steak. Ironically, the empty-­feeling bottle never seemed to run out. I think most people still have the same bottle of A.1. that they had in 1989. Once I looked at the back of a bottle of A.1. and was not sur­prised to find that one of the ingredients was “magic.”   By the time I became a teenager, I generally understood that steak was something unique. It had some kind of a deeper meaning. I still preferred McDonald’s, but I realized steak was certainly not something my father would’ve been able to eat growing up as the son of a denture maker in Springfield, Il­linois, in the 1940s. I remember thinking that maybe eating steak was actually my father’s measure of success. He wasn’t poor anymore. He and his children could afford to eat burnt steak. Even in my twenties, when I would go home to visit my father after my mother passed away, he and I would always eat a cigarette-­ash-­infused steak that he had overcooked on the grill. Many years later I realized that following my mother’s death, my father pretty much ate steak every night. Probably because my mother was not around anymore to say, “Well, obviously you shouldn’t eat steak every night!” When I think back to my father eating steak day after day, year after year, I can only come to one conclusion: my father was a genius.   I don’t know what happened, but steak makes perfect sense to me now. I was really overanalyzing it as a teenager. My fa­ther was not cooking steak on the grill to get away from his family or eating it daily to prove to himself that he wasn’t poor; my father was eating steak because consuming a steak is one of the great pleasures we get to experience during our short time on this planet. This was probably one of my most profound coming-­of-­age realizations. Steak is really that amazing. Steak is so delicious, I’m sure the first person to go on a stakeout was eventually disappointed: “Been sitting in this car all night and still no steak! Not even a basket of bread.”   I’m actually relieved I inherited my father’s love of steak. Where I was raised in the Midwest, all the men around me seemed to love three things: fixing stuff, cars, and steak. I learned that a real man loves fixing stuff, cars, and steak. Well, at least I’ve got one of those three. If eating steak is manly, it is the only manly attribute I possess. I’m not handy. I can’t fix things. Whenever something breaks in our apartment, I just look at my wife sheepishly and say, “We should call someone.” I don’t even call. My wife calls. I can barely figure out the phone. When the handyman comes over, I just kind of silently watch him work. I don’t know what to say. “You want some brownies? My wife could bake us some brownies. I’d bake them, but I don’t know how to turn the oven on.” I try to act like I’m working on something more important. “Yeah, I’m more of a tech guy. I’m really good at computer stuff ..... like checking e-­mail.”   I’m just not manly. I don’t know what happened. The men in my family are manly. My dad and my brothers loved cars. I mean LOVED cars in a manly way. They’d talk about cars, go to car shows, and even stop and look at other people’s cars in a parking lot. I barely have an opinion on cars. I do know that trucks are manlier than cars. The most manly form of trans­portation is, of course, the pickup truck. My brother Mike has a pickup because he’s a MAN. Pickup commercials just give me anxiety. There’s always a voice-­over bellowing, “You can pull one ton! Two tons! You can pull an aircraft carrier!” I always think, Why? Why do you need that? I only see people taking their pickup trucks to Cracker Barrel. My brother Mike, like many other pickup owners, never seems to be picking anything up in his pickup. I find this confusing. It’s like walking around with a big empty piece of luggage. “Are you about to travel somewhere?” “No, but I’m the type of guy who would.” To be fair, I really can’t judge. I don’t own a pickup—­or even a car, for that matter. Whenever I go back home to Indiana to visit my brother Mitch, who is car obsessed, I rent a car and drive to his house from Chicago. We usually have the same conversation.   MITCH: What kind of car did you rent? ME: I think it’s blue. MITCH: Is that four or six cylinders? ME: (pause) It has four wheels. I think. Wait, cylinders aren’t wheels, right?   But steak ..... steak I get. If eating steak is manly, then I’m all man. I’m like a man and a half. I love steak so much, it’s actually the way I show affection for other men. “You’re such a good guy, I’m going to buy you a steak.” Men bond over steak. “We’ll sit and eat meat together and not talk about our families.” I recently toured for two weeks with my friend Tom. When I returned home, Jeannie asked, “How’s Tom’s family?” I don’t know. I only spent like twelve hours a day with the guy. I know he likes a medium-­rare rib eye. What else is there to know?   I order steaks from Omaha Steaks. Yes, I order my meat over the Internet, which I’m pretty sure is a sign of a problem. I guess I don’t want my steak shopping to cut into my steak-­eating time. Ordering Omaha Steaks is very simple. It’s like Amazon.com for beef. A couple of days after I place my order, a Styrofoam cooler shows up. It’s the same type of cooler that I imagine they will deliver my replacement heart in. Omaha Steaks is nice enough to provide dry ice in case I’d like to make a bomb or something. Occasionally, when I grab my Omaha Steaks cooler out of the hallway I’ll make eye contact with a neighbor, who I’m sure will later tell his spouse, “Jim got an­other box of meat today. That apartment will be available in a couple weeks.” The only problem with Omaha Steaks as a company is that you can’t get rid of them. Once you order from them, they are like Jehovah’s Witnesses calling all the time.   OMAHA STEAKS REP: Hey, you want some more steaks? ME: I just got a delivery yesterday. OMAHA STEAKS REP: How about some rib eyes? ME: I don’t need any more steak, thank you. OMAHA STEAKS REP: How about some filets? You want some filets? ME: Really. I’m fine with steaks. OMAHA STEAKS REP: Okay, I’ll call tomorrow. ME: Um ..... OMAHA STEAKS REP: Hey, you want some turkey? Ham? ME: I thought you were Omaha Steaks? OMAHA STEAKS REP: You want some drywall? ME: Aren’t you Omaha Steaks? OMAHA STEAKS REP: I’m right outside your window. I’m so lonely.   I could never be a vegetarian for many reasons, but the main one is steak. Sure, bacon, bratwurst, and pastrami are pretty amazing, but steak is the soul of all carnivores. Steak is the embodiment of premium meat eating. I’m a meat lover, and steak is the tuxedo of meat. The priciest dish on most menus is the “surf and turf,” the steak and lobster. Who are they kid­ding? The steak is clearly driving the steak-­and-­lobster entrée. The steak is the headliner. There are way more people going for the steak and the lobster than people going for the lobster and the steak. The people who want the lobster are just order­ing the lobster. Lobster’s appeal is all perception, and steak is truly extraordinary. Steak has its own knives. There aren’t steak restaurants. There are steakhouses. Steak gets a house. There’s no tunahouse. Tuna gets a can. I love a steakhouse. It’s really the perfect environment for eating a steak. They always seem like throwbacks to another era. A time when kale was just a weed in your backyard. All steakhouses seem to be dimly lit and covered in dark wood. They are usually decorated with a combination of red leather and red leather. You know there is a huge locker full of hanging carcasses, like five feet away. The waiters are no-­nonsense pros. They approach in a gruff manner:   WAITER: (deep, scratchy voice) Welcome. Let’s not beat around the bush. You getting a steak? We serve meat here. Want some meat? ME: Yes, ma’am.   At Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn, the waiter usually won’t even let you order. “You’re all getting porterhouse.” Um, okay.   Some steakhouses show you the meat raw. At places like Smith & Wollensky, a tray will be wheeled out with different cuts on it. One by one the waiter will pick up a glob of raw meat and thrust it at the table. “You can get this. You can get this.” Men are such visual animals that they’ll point at the fat-­swirled hunk of flesh and grunt, “That one.” It’s all very simple and primal. At other restaurants, fancy non-­steak items are prepared in a code of complexity: “Al dente.” “Braised.” “Flambéed.” But the way steak is cooked is understandable even to a monosyllabic caveman: “Rare.” “Medium.” “Well.” You barely even have to know how to talk.   Of course, vegetables are also served at steakhouses, but they are called “side dishes.” Like their presence there is only justified by the existence of steak. They’re the entourage of the steak. And you can take them or leave them. The sides are not included with the purchase of steak. They are à la carte in steakhouses, like napkins on Spirit Airlines.   Sides are never called “vegetables,” because what is done to vegetables in steakhouses makes them no longer qualify as vegetables.   GRUFF WAITER: We have spinach cooked in ice cream. We also have a bowl of marshmallows with a dollop of yam. And our house specialty is a baked potato that we somehow stuffed with five sticks of butter. We also have a “diet potato” that is stuffed with only four sticks of butter.   Everything about a steakhouse is manly, so it’s no surprise that sports heroes own steakhouses. I’ve been to Ditka’s, El­way’s, and Shula’s, which all had great steaks, but I’m pretty sure those NFL greats didn’t cook my steak. “Hey, you were good at football. Why don’t you open a meat restaurant? They have nothing to do with each other.” Nothing except the same demographic: manly men. Like me.   My love of steakhouses is sincere. When I die, I would like to be buried in a steakhouse. Well, not buried. Just my casket on display in the dining room. That way people can come in, eat, and stare at me lying in state. Maybe someone will say, “Jim died too soon, but this steak was aged perfectly!” I don’t think people in steakhouses would mind that much about my casket. People are in steakhouses for steak.   PATRON: Why is there a casket in the middle of the room? WAITER: Oh, that is a comedian, Jim Gaffigan. His only wish was to ..... PATRON: I’ll have the rib eye, baked potato, and can I get blue cheese on the side? WAITER: I’ll bring that right away, Mrs. Gaffigan.   I love steakhouses, but I realize there is something barbaric about the whole experience. Going to a place to eat cow hind parts. Eventually, eating steak won’t be socially acceptable. In two hundred years I’m sure the following conversation will take place:   PERSON 1: Did you know that in 2014 people would sit in dark rooms and eat sliced-­up cow by candlelight? PERSON 2: Not my ancestors! My ancestors have been vegan since they came over on the Mayflower. I read that on Ancestry.com.       CUP OF GRAVY   I suppose I’ve become desensitized to the level of unhealthy eat­ing in America. An 80-­ounce soda, all-­you-­can-­eat buffets, and a Wendy’s Triple only seem like logical options to me. I love the rare moments when I’m truly surprised by American eating.   A while ago I was back in Indiana in my hometown walk­ing around the Kmart, or, as we called it, “the mall.” You can typically find just about anything you need in one of these “big box” stores like Walmart and Kmart. What I especially love about Kmart is the ambience. I always feel like I’ve entered a store that was just attacked by a flash mob. Everything always looks and feels a little disheveled. There will be some random empty shelf. There’s always a huge corner display tower of sale products that looks like it will collapse on you if you breathe on it. There will be a broken jar in one aisle and an aban­doned sock in the next. The selection and layout suggest that this might not be the ideal place to buy a suit or use a public restroom. Anyway, on this fine day I was looking for diapers when I saw a seventy-­year-­old man walking around the Kmart drinking something I realized later was a cup of KFC gravy.   Now, in full disclosure, I love gravy. Who doesn’t, really? It’s gravy, after all ..... but I’ve never considered gravy a bever­age. Even in my most private moments with gravy I’ve never contemplated taking a swig. This is coming from someone who drank a product called Yoo-­hoo on many occasions as a teen­ager. The thing I found most impressive was that not only was this stranger drinking gravy, he also wasn’t even trying to hide it. When I first spotted the stranger, I saw the KFC Styrofoam cup, saw him take a drink, and assumed ..... well, obviously this guy is not drinking gravy. Then I encountered him again standing in front of me in the checkout line. It was at that mo­ment I saw the thick brown liquid in the cup and confirmed that it was, in fact, a cup of KFC gravy he was drinking. And then, almost as if to prove a point, he turned around and took a sip right in front of me. Our eyes met, and he gave me a warm Midwestern smile as if to say, “Hey, how’s it going?” I nodded and said hello and was only a bit more than slightly tempted to exclaim, “You realize you’re drinking gravy, right?”   I don’t know what the events were that led up to this stranger drinking the cup of gravy in that Kmart. I like to think he walked into KFC with the intention of drinking gravy. Maybe his order was simple.   “Yeah I’ll have the large mashed potatoes and gravy. And hold the mashed potatoes.”   Maybe in order to avoid judgment or scorn, he ordered the mashed potatoes, got the gravy on the side, and just threw the mashed potatoes away. Or maybe he really could have cared less what anyone thought, which is more likely, since he seemed like a proud gravy drinker greet­ing the cashier while she scanned his heart medication.   I’m no health nut, but I can only imagine what this guy’s next medical checkup was like. I picture a doctor in a white coat glancing down at a chart as he walks into an examination room with our gravy drinker sitting on the examination table. The doctor would then tilt his head to the right, perplexed by the results on the chart:   DOCTOR: Mr. Jones, I’ve got your cholesterol levels here. (beat) Okay, you are aware your blood is not moving? GRAVY DRINKER: (nods) DOCTOR: This is kind of a strange question. Um. You haven’t been drinking gravy, have ya? Because based on the test results you’re, like, 90 percent meat by-­product. GRAVY DRINKER: (nods) DOCTOR: We’re going to have to register you with the government.   I guessed the age of our gravy drinker to be around seventy, but I have no idea how old he was or how long he had been drinking gravy. Maybe he was younger. Maybe gravy drinking is one of those rapid-­aging behaviors, like smoking. Or maybe he was an even older guy and the gravy-­drinking habit had plumped out his wrinkles so he actually looked younger. I sup­pose his unique consumption of his gravy cup was voluntary, but I honestly don’t know. Maybe his wife was just trying to kill him.   GRAVY DRINKER: Honey, I’m going to Kmart. WIFE: Well, why don’t you have a cup of gravy? GRAVY DRINKER: Well, I guess I could ..... WIFE: And why don’t you sign this additional life insur­ance policy? GRAVY DRINKER: Boy, you love buying life insurance.       EVEN FEWER PEOPLE LIKE VEGETABLES   If nobody wants fruit, even fewer people want vegetables. This is because, overall, vegetables taste horrible. Don’t be­lieve me? Why, then, are we surprised when vegetables taste good? “Oh my God, this beet is delicious.” We are surprised because the expectation is that vegetables will taste like, well, vegetables. People eat vegetables, but nobody WANTS to eat vegetables. Think back to the last time you ate a vegetable. Did you WANT to eat the vegetable? Be honest. Maybe it was part of a healthy choice you made: “I’ll eat some carrots.” Congrats on that healthy choice, but don’t confuse a healthy choice with a desire to eat a vegetable. I mean, I don’t want to be fat, but I want vegetables less. Of course, I’m forced to eat vegetables when there are children present.     Parents dishonestly announce how good vegetables are in front of young children, hoping that because of the young­sters’ absence of life experience and sheer stupidity, they will be tricked into liking them. The lie that “vegetables are good” usually expires around the same time as the belief in Santa and the notion that adults actually know what they are doing.   Let’s say I’m wrong. Maybe you do want to eat a vegetable. Let’s now subtract deep frying, vinegar, dairy, oil, or an un­healthy amount of salt from the vegetable. Do you still WANT the vegetable? If you say no, you are like me. If you said, “Yes, Jim, I love eating raw radishes by the handful,” you are a weirdo and probably need therapy. Okay, I’m jealous.   Mostly I’ve found that vegetables MUST be deep-­fried, drowned in vinegar, or covered with some form of dairy or salt to have any appeal. Even at that point, the improvement is very minimal. It’s staggering, the exertion that is put into making vegetables appealing. I’d like to applaud the effort be­hind grilled vegetables, but I’m pretty sure everyone finds them soggy and a waste of precious grill space.   At their best, vegetables are the sidekicks. The opening band you didn’t come to see at the concert. The asparagus next to the steak. The expectation is that the entrée is so good you won’t notice that you are eating mutant blades of grass. There is no better sidekick than the potato, mostly in deep-­fried form. Even so, potatoes, like corn, are fake vegetables and a great ex­cuse to your wife if you eat a lot of fries and tortillas: “I had so many veggies today, honey!”   THE VEGETABLE TRAY   Occasionally, raw, naked, unenhanced vegetables are shame­lessly presented as if they are actually desirable. This is the case with the elaborate vegetable party tray. When you are at a party and there is a vegetable tray, aren’t you a little surprised? I always think, Wow, that’s a waste of money. A tray of veg­etables at a party almost makes me sad. Here is a meticulously arranged tray of neatly cut vegetables for someone to throw out at the end of the night. I think crudités is a French term meaning “toss in le garbage at end of le party.” The only thing that raw vegetables have ever been good for is the careers of hummus and ranch dressing.   The vegetable tray reflects very poorly on the shortsighted host of the party you are attending. “Who is throwing this party? A nutritionist? Peter Rabbit? Is this a party or a Weight Watchers meeting?” You know they are just there for decora­tion. Who doesn’t want to look at pretty colors while scarf­ing down pigs in a blanket? But actually eat the raw vegetable decoration? Hell, I’d rather eat a candle. What, I’m the only one here who eats the occasional candle at parties? Why do you think they’re scented?   I almost feel sorry for the vegetables on the tray. They don’t stand a chance against the other party appetizers. I know what it feels like to be the cauliflower next to the chips and guaca­mole. I’ve been to the beach and been the pale guy next to the tan bodybuilder. It’s not a good feeling.   CAULIFLOWER: What the hell am I doing on this table? I can’t compete with a bowl of peanut-­butter-­filled pretzels! As if that ranch dressing is going to help sell me.   Some of us have to settle down with the ranch dressing. The usage is getting out of control. “I can’t help it. I love ranch dressing. I like to dip my pizza in ranch dressing.” That’s fine. You are just not allowed to vote anymore. Ranch dressing is rather pathetic, really—­after all, it’s made from buttermilk and sadness. Prior to ranch dressing, nobody had ever eaten a raw vegetable. Throughout history, mankind has always known that vegetables were primarily put on this Earth for decoration.   FARMHAND: Done with the harvest. Nobody is eating the Indian corn. FARMER: Feed it to the cows. FARMHAND: They didn’t want it either. FARMER: Throw it on the front porch next to the gourd and jack-­o’-­lantern and remind me not to grow it next year.   TYPES OF VEGETABLES   A list of different types of vegetables reads like the roster of attendees at an international conference for the barely edibles.   Brussels Sprouts: Clearly some kind of cruel joke by God. Bell Pepper: Probably what makes cooked bell peppers so special is that they can ruin the taste of any dish they are in. Green, red, yellow, or orange peppers—you can change the color, but when I see one, I prepare for dis­appointment. Green is by far the worst of the culprits. Green peppers can make the best steak bitter and a grown man cry. Radish: Interesting fact: No one has ever really wanted to eat more than one radish in a lifetime. Radishes are a fascinating example of how something can be both tasteless and burn your tongue at the same time. Celery: Celery better get buffalo wings a great holiday pres­ent every year. Squash: The name says it all. Pretty much the only thing that can squash my appetite. Cauliflower: The unpainted broccoli imposter. Asparagus: Most interesting thing about asparagus is how fast it makes your pee smell like asparagus. Zucchini: The cucumber’s ugly and disappointing cousin. (Similar to what the raisin cookie is to the chocolate chip cookie.) Cucumber: The cucumber is just a pickle before it started drinking.   PICKLES AND HOT PEPPERS It seems whenever I identify a green vegetable I enjoy, it is a pickled vegetable or a hot pepper. Pickles are so good you’d think being “in a pickle” would be a good thing. Actually, a great thing. Pickles are delicious. Imagine a Cuban sandwich without the pickle. Wait, don’t do it. It’s a sad thought, actu­ally. A Cuban sandwich without the pickle is just a ham-­and-­cheese sandwich with a slab of pork. Who would ever order that? Well, I guess I would, but I am a unique case.   If a pickle can define a meal, a hot pepper is there to over­power one. The hot pepper is the marching-band cymbal of vegetables. It’s like, “This is a pretty tasty sandwich—­WOW, HOT PEPPER!”   The super-­hot-food thing is weird. It’s like, “Eat this thing that will burn off your nose hairs and kill all your taste buds to make the food better.” It’s surprising that we don’t put thumbtacks on our beds to enjoy our sleep more. But for me hot peppers are highly addictive.   I seem to have an abusive relationship with hot peppers. I probably need a support group. I know what they are going to do to me, yet I cannot resist them. At night I’m all “Yay, jala­peños!” The next morning I’m all “Boo, jalapeños!” Still, like a true codependent, I am the person who willingly keeps going back to the abusive relationship. I don’t want to give too much information, but they were probably eating jalapeños the night before writing the Johnny Cash song “Ring of Fire.” Still, I would much prefer to suffer the aftereffects of an exciting hot pepper than eat a boring vegetable. What am I, a monk?   As a society, I am sure we can all agree that vegetables should be removed from their classification as actual food. I am pretty confident that the food experts agree, because they are giving us subliminal anti-­vegetable messages. For instance, remember that “healthy” food pyramid they used to show, where the stuff you are not supposed to eat is in that tiny tip and the things that are good for you are at the bottom? I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but I believe that the true purpose of that pyramid is to be a rating system for taste. It’s no surprise that the vegetables are the lowest on the scale. I think that the secret engineers of the food pyramid de­sign are the Masons. They hate vegetables too, right? Let’s just admit the truth. After all, what is most people’s worst fear be­sides death? You got it: ending up a vegetable.      ","Jim Gaffigan",9780804140416,0804140413,Hardcover,10/21/2014,"Crown Archetype",,,352,1.15IN,5.67IN,1.25,,,,,,B,Humor-Anthologies,,
205,"2017-04-02 18:47:53","Nasty Bits Collected Varietal Cuts Usable Trim Scraps & Bones","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsBestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction — and including new, never-before-published material — The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike. Review""In this typically bold effort, Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential), like the fine chef he is, pulls together an entertaining feast from the detritus of his years of cooking and traveling. Arranged around the basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami (a Japanese term for a taste the defies description), this scattershot collection of anecdotes puts Bourdain's brave palate, notorious sense of adventure and fine writing on display. From the horrifying opening passages, where he joins an Arctic family in devouring a freshly slaughtered seal, to a final work of fiction, the text may disappoint those who've come to expect more honed kitchen insights from the chef. Surprisingly, though, the less substantive kitchen material Bourdain has to work from only showcases his talent for observation. This book isn't for the effete foodies Bourdain clearly despises (though they'd do well to read it). He criticizes celebrity chefs, using Rocco DiSpirito as a 'cautionary tale,' and commends restaurants that still serve stomach-turning if palate-pleasing dishes, such as New York's Pierre au Tunnel (now closed), which offered tête de veau, essentially 'calf's face, rolled up and tied with its tongue and thymus gland.' Fans of Bourdain's hunger for the edge will gleefully consume this never-boring book. Author tour. (May)"" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)Review""Bourdain's enthusiasm is so intense that it practically explodes off the page...Bourdain shows himself to be one of the country's best food writers. His opinions are as strong as his language, and his tastes as infectious as his joy."" New York Times Book ReviewReview""Lovers of adventurous culinary experiences will find much to whet their appetites here, and those who loathe the celebrity chef phenomena will find a friend in Bourdain."" Library JournalReview""Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois."" New York magazineReview""[Writes] the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages."" USA TodayReview""A vibrant discourse on satisfying hungers of every kind."" Kirkus ReviewsReview""Bawdie, bolshy and bursting with energy."" Daily Mail (UK)Review""Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and aioli."" Daily Telegraph (UK)SynopsisIn the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.  Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York's priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell's Kitchen dives, Bourdain is as provocative, engaging, and opinionated as ever. The Nasty Bits is an irresistible tasting menu of food writing at its outrageous best--served up Bourdain style.About the AuthorAnthony Bourdain is the author of seven books including the bestselling Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour. A thirty-year veteran of professional kitchens, he is the host of No Reservations on the Discovery Channel, and the executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan. He lives in New York City.","Anthony Bourdain",9781596913608,1596913606,"Trade Paperback",05/01/2007,"BLOOMSBURY BOOKS",,,304,"8.18 in","5.67 in",.75,1,,,"Anthony Bourdain",,B,"Cooking and Food-General|History",,
206,"2017-04-28 20:32:53","The French Chef in America: Julia...",,"Alex Prud'homme",9780385351751,0385351755,Hardcover,10/04/2016,"Knopf Publishing Group",,,336,1.30IN,6.50IN,,,Yes,,,,B,"Cooking and Food-Historical Food and Cooking",,
207,"2017-04-06 02:41:35","Dishwasher One Mans Quest to Wash...",,"Pete Jordan",9780060896423,0060896426,"Trade Paperback",05/01/2007,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",P.S.,,353,.91IN,5.32IN,1.00,1,,2800060896425,,,B,"United States Description and travel.|Personal Memoirs|Jordan, Pete - Travel|Biography - General|Restaurants",,
208,"2017-04-06 02:42:29","Paris My Sweet A Year in the City...",,"Amy Thomas",9781402264115,1402264119,"Trade Paperback",02/01/2012,"SOURCEBOOKS INC (IL)",,,304,.90IN,5.50IN,.75,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography - General|Cooking and Food-Pies and Pastries",,
209,"2017-04-06 02:41:14","Fresh Off the Boat",,"Eddie Huang",9780812983357,0812983351,"Trade Paperback",11/12/2013,"Spiegel & Grau",,,276,.62IN,5.19IN,.75,,,,"Eddie Huang",,B,"Cooking and Food-General",,
210,"2017-04-06 21:56:13","Mastering the Art of Soviet...",,"Anya Von Bremzen",9780307886811,0307886816,Hardcover,09/17/2013,"CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP INC",,,338,9.75,6.50,1.25,,,,,,,"Biography - General",,
211,"2017-04-28 20:34:23","Sous Chef 24 Hours on the Line",,"Michael Gibney",9780804177894,0804177899,"Trade Paperback",04/14/2015,"BALLANTINE BOOKS",,,240,.60IN,5.20IN,.75,,,,"Michael Gibney",,B,"food;cooking|Biography - General",,
212,"2017-04-15 20:56:47","Animal Vegetable Miracle Our Year...",,"Barbara Kingsolver",9780571233564,0571233562,Hardcover,,"FABER & FABER INC",,,384,"9.22 in.","6.60 in.","1.24 in.",,,2800571233566,"Barbara Kingsolver",,,,,
213,"2017-04-28 20:33:31","Julia Child Rules Lessons on...",,"Julia Child, Karen Karbo",9780762783090,0762783095,Hardcover,10/01/2013,SKIRT,,,231,.90IN,5.50IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Julia Child",,B,"Cooking and Food-General",,
214,"2017-04-06 02:49:28","32 Yolks From My Mothers Table to...",,"Eric Ripert",9780812992984,0812992989,Hardcover,05/17/2016,"RANDOM HOUSE",,,256,1.00IN,5.80IN,.75,,,,,,B,"Cooking and Food-French",,
215,"2017-04-28 20:35:45","Eating Viet Nam Dispatches from a...",,"Graham Holliday",9780062293060,0062293060,"Trade Paperback",03/15/2016,"ECCO PRESS",,,352,1.10IN,5.30IN,,,,,,,B,"Cooking and Food-Korean and Vietnamese",,
216,"2017-04-06 02:49:53","Yes, Chef",,"Samuelsson, Marcus and Chambers, Veronica",9780385342612,0385342616,"Trade Paperback",05/21/2013,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,319,.76IN,5.30IN,.75,,Yes,,"Marcus Samuelsson",,B,"Biography - General",,
217,"2017-04-07 22:37:25","Three Cups of Tea One Mans...",,"Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver",9780143038252,0143038257,"Trade Paperback",02/01/2007,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,349,.81IN,5.48IN,.75,1,Yes,2800143038254,"Greg Mortenson",,B,"Afghanistan|Pakistan|Personal Memoirs|Girls' schools - Pakistan|Girls' schools - Afghanistan",,
218,"2017-04-06 02:36:09","Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man a...",,"Mitch Albom",9780767905923,076790592X,"Trade Paperback",10/08/2002,"BROADWAY BOOKS",,,192,.70IN,4.90IN,.50,16,,2800767905925,"Mitch (AFT) Albom",,B,"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Patients|Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis|Death|Death -- Psychological aspects.|Teacher-student relationships",,
219,"2017-04-04 21:29:58","Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man,...",,"Mitch Albom",9780385484510,0385484518,Hardcover,08/18/1997,"BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL",,,208,.80IN,5.28IN,".80 in.",1,,2800385484512,,,,"Biography-Educators|Intergenerational relations|General Philosophy|Attitude to death.|Patients",,
220,"2017-04-25 21:36:57","Leonhard Euler",,"Fellmann, Emil A.",9783764375386,3764375388,Hardcover,12/12/2006,Birkhauser,,English,180,.50IN,6.14IN,,1,Yes,2803764375388,"Emil A. Fellmann",,B,"Euler, Leonhard|Mathematics -- History.|History|History of Mathematical Sciences|History -- Philosophy.",,
221,"2017-04-06 02:40:51","Without You There Is No Us My...",,"Suki Kim",9780307720658,0307720659,Hardcover,10/14/2014,"Crown Publishing Group (NY)",,,291,1.05IN,5.76IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Suki Kim",,B,"der;DPRK|World History-Korea",,
222,"2017-04-06 02:42:29","Without You There Is No Us My...",,"Suki Kim",9780307720665,0307720667,"Trade Paperback",10/13/2015,"BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL",,,320,.80IN,5.10IN,.75,,Yes,,"Suki Kim",,B,"World History-Korea",,
223,"2017-04-04 21:34:15","Tuesdays With Morrie An Old Man A...",,"Mitch Albom",9780307275639,0307275639,"Mass Market",12/01/2005,"GOLDEN BOOKS",,,208,"7.02 in.","4.31 in.",".57 in.",1,,2800307275631,,,,"Personal Memoirs|Schwartz, Morris S|General Philosophy",,
224,"2017-04-08 08:54:02",Tis,,"Frank Mccourt",9780684865744,0684865742,"Trade Paperback",08/28/2000,"SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE","v. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2000)",,368,.82IN,5.56IN,1.00,1,,2800684865746,"Frank McCourt",,B,"ireland, irish, immigrant, great depression, pulitzer, memoir, national book critics circle, book critics circle, family, family saga, colm toibin, toibin, stuyvesant high school, malaky mccourt, angela s ashes, teacher man, education, immigration, surviv|New york (n.y.)|Biography-Ethnic Cultures|s ashes, teacher man, education, immigration, survival, New York University, NYU, miserable childhood, storytelling, storyteller|Irish americans",,
225,"2017-04-08 15:33:05","I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up...",,"Malala Yousafzai, Archie Panjabi, Christina Lamb",9781478983705,1478983701,"Compact Disc",06/02/2015,"Little Brown and Company",,,,1.50IN,5.20IN,1.50,9,,,"Christina Lamb",,A,"Biography - General",,
226,"2017-04-28 20:33:51","Teacher Man",,"Frank McCourt",9780743243780,0743243781,"Trade Paperback",09/19/2006,"Scribner Book Company",,English,258,.68IN,5.58IN,.50,1,Yes,2800743243782,"Frank McCourt",,B,"Irish americans|ireland, irish, immigrant, great depression, pulitzer, memoir, national book critics circle, book critics circle, family, family saga, colm toibin, toibin, stuyvesant high school, malaky mccourt, Stuyvesant, learning, teaching, city school, urban school,|High school teachers|Personal Memoirs|Biography-Educators",,
227,"2017-04-02 18:52:35","It Takes a School",,"Jonathan Starr",9781250113467,1250113466,Hardcover,02/07/2017,"Henry Holt & Company",,,272,1.20IN,6.40IN,,,,,,,B,,,
228,"2017-04-02 18:52:49","Walking on Water Reading Writing & Revolution","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsIn a new paperback edition, Walking on Water is a startling and provocative look at teaching, writing, creativity, and life by a writer increasingly recognized for his passionate and articulate critique of modern civilization. Derrick Jensen brings us into his classroom — whether college or maximum security prison — where he teaches writing. He reveals how schools perpetuate the great illusion that happiness lies outside of ourselves and that learning to please and submit to those in power makes us into lifelong clock-watchers. As a writing teacher Jensen guides his students out of the confines of traditional education to find their own voices, freedom, and creativity. This is a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of our current educational system that not only gives a hands-on method for learning how to write, but also a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves. Review""Jensen's strength lies in his honest, provocative, passionate approach....Jensen's first, second, third and fourth rules of writing are 'Don't bore the reader.' In that effort, he succeeds masterfully."" Publishers WeeklyReview""The author, who seems like a friend by the end of the book, presents his ideas in a humorous, radical, and upfront approach...[T]his book is a true treasure for teens....It is highly recommended for...budding writers."" VOYAReview""I would urge all teachers' colleges and schools of education to get rid of their textbooks and required courses and instead give everyone preparing to be a teacher a copy of Derrick Jensen's Walking on Water. It is a superb commentary on learning, for both teachers and students — practical and visionary at the same time."" Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United StatesReview""The lessons here are truly revolutionary....Thank you, Derrick Jensen, for giving us a roadway to get started."" Adam Fletcher, director of The Freechild ProjectSynopsisThis is a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of the current educational system that not only gives a hands-on method for learning how to write, but also a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves.About the AuthorDerrick Jensen is a prize-winning author and was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which cited The Culture of Make Believe as ""a passionate and provocative meditation on the nexus of racism, genocide, environmental destruction, and corporate malfeasance, where civilization meets its discontents."" He lives on the coast of northern California.","Derrick Jensen",9781931498784,1931498784,"Trade Paperback",04/30/2005,"CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING COMPANY",,,226,.60IN,5.50IN,.75,1,,2801931498786,"Derrick Jensen",,B,"Education-Teaching Guides",,
229,"2017-04-06 02:57:37","Coming Ashore A Memoir",,"Catherine Gildiner",9781770412569,1770412565,"Trade Paperback",08/11/2015,"ECW PRESS",,,416,1.20IN,5.40IN,1.25,,,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
230,"2017-04-24 06:30:47","C S Lewis A Life Eccentric Genius...",,"Alister Mcgrath",9781496410450,1496410459,"Trade Paperback",03/01/2016,"TYNDALE HOUSE PUBLISHERS",,,448,1.20IN,5.90IN,,,,,"Alister, E. Mcgrath",,B,Biography-Religious,,
231,"2017-04-28 20:40:53","Teacher Man",,"Frank Mccourt",9780743243773,0743243773,Hardcover,11/15/2005,"SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE",,,258,.96IN,6.36IN,1.00,1,,2800743243775,"Frank McCourt",,B,"McCourt, Frank|High school teachers|ireland, irish, immigrant, great depression, pulitzer, memoir, national book critics circle, book critics circle, family, family saga, colm toibin, toibin, stuyvesant high school, malaky mccourt, Stuyvesant, learning, teaching, city school, urban school,|Biography-Educators|Personal Memoirs",,
232,"2017-04-04 21:55:13","Masters of Sex",,"Thomas Maier",9780465079995,0465079997,"Trade Paperback",07/30/2013,"BASIC BOOKS",,,440,8.25,5.5,1.25,,Yes,,"Thomas Maier",,B,"Biography-Social Scientists and Psychologists",,
233,"2017-04-07 15:50:37","Up from Slavery",,"Booker T Washington",9780486287386,0486287386,"Trade Paperback",10/04/1995,"DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC","Dover Thrift Editions",,160,.44IN,5.52IN,,1,,2800486287388,"Booker T. Washington",,B,"Tuskegee institute|Biography - General|United states|Educators -- United States.|Biography-Educators",,
234,"2017-04-28 20:45:40","Up from Slavery",,"Booker T Washington",9781589807891,1589807898,"Trade Paperback",03/15/2010,"Pelican Publishing Company","Pelican Pouch Series",,330,1.00IN,4.20IN,1.00,1,Yes,9781589807891,"Booker T. Washington",,B,"cultural heritage|Biography-Educators",,
235,"2017-04-07 17:27:36","Edward Sorin",,"Marvin Richard O'Connell",9780268027599,0268027595,Hardcover,11/15/2001,"University of Notre Dame Press",,English,792,2.22IN,7.28IN,"2.2 in.",1,Yes,9780268027599,"Marvin Richard O'Connell",,B,"Sorin, Edward|University of Notre Dame|Biography-Educators|History",,
236,"2017-04-02 18:54:15","Unbreakable Boy",,"Scott M Lerette, Susy Flory",9781628995459,1628995459,Hardcover,05/01/2015,"Center Point",,,500,1.00IN,5.80IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Scott M Lerette",,B,Biography-Educators,,
237,"2017-04-07 17:27:47","Fred Terman at Stanford: Building...",,"C. Stewart Gillmor",9780804749145,0804749140,Hardcover,09/22/2004,"Stanford University Press",,English,672,1.66IN,7.32IN,2.00,1,Yes,2800804749147,"C. Stewart Gillmor",,B,"History|Biography-Educators|Radio engineers.",,
238,"2017-04-28 20:49:22","True Notebooks A Writers Year At...",,"Mark Salzman",9780375413087,0375413081,Hardcover,10/01/2003,"BALLANTINE BOOKS",,,330,"8.42 in.","5.98 in.","1.28 in.",1,,2800375413089,,,,"Teacher-student relationships|Juvenile delinquents' writings, American|Creative writing",,
239,"2017-04-07 15:50:41","Freedoms Teacher The Life of...",,"Katherine Charron",9780807872222,0807872229,"Trade Paperback",02/01/2012,"UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS",,,462,1.10IN,6.10IN,,,Yes,9780807872222,"Katherine Charron",,B,"Elizabeth Waring|African American women in South Carolina|African American education|Citizens Councils, South Carolina|Columbia, South Carolina",,
240,"2017-04-28 20:52:49","Water Is Wide",,"Pat Conroy",9780553268935,0553268937,"Mass Market",09/01/1994,"BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL",,,272,"7.06 in.","4.40 in.",".93 in.",1,,2800553268937,"Pat Conroy",,,"Afro-Americans -- Education (Elementary) -- South Carolina.|African Americans|Elementary education|Yamacraw Island|General Fiction",,
242,"2017-04-02 18:55:29","Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me & Other Concerns","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsMindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence ""Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?"" Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly! In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door — not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.Review""She's like Tina Fey's cool little sister. Or perhaps... the next Nora Ephron."" The New York Times Review""The fashion opinions of Kelly Kapoor mixed with a Miss Manners-esque advice column."" EW.comReview""If you love Kelly and think the three minutes or so allotted her on episodes of The Office are too few, you can take home Mindy."" The New YorkerReview""Is anyone else kind of sold on the genius title alone?"" NylonReview""Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) is hilarious and relatable — just like Kaling's classic Tweets."" Ladies Home JournalAbout the AuthorMindy Kaling is an Emmy-nominated writer and actress on NBC's The Office. She is also the creator and star of a new show, FOX's The Mindy Project. You can find her on Twitter (@mindykaling), or at her desk pretending to be writing a screenplay but actually online shopping with a memorized credit card number. She resides in Los Angeles. Her billing zip code is 90067.","Mindy Kaling",9780307886279,0307886271,"Trade Paperback",09/18/2012,"Three Rivers Press (CA)",,,222,.70IN,5.10IN,.75,,,,"Mindy Kaling",,B,Humor-Anthologies,,
243,"2017-11-09 03:02:28",Bossypants,,"Tina Fey",9780316056878,0316056871,"Trade Paperback",01/03/2012,"Reagan Arthur Books",,,304,.90IN,5.40IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts|Humor-Anthologies",,
244,"2017-04-28 20:26:10","Yes Please",,"Amy Poehler",9780062268341,0062268341,Hardcover,10/28/2014,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,329,1.20IN,6.40IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Amy Poehler",,B,"Humor-Anthologies|Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
245,"2017-04-27 07:08:40","Yes Please",,"Amy Poehler",9780062268358,006226835X,"Trade Paperback",09/01/2015,"Dey Street",,English,352,1.00IN,6.00IN,1.25,,Yes,,,,B,"Humor-Anthologies|Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
246,"2017-04-02 18:56:19","As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride","Awards Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.The Princess Bride has been a family favorite for close to three decades. Ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories and by the Writers Guild of America as one of the top 100 screenplays of all time, The Princess Bride will continue to resonate with audiences for years to come. Cary Elwes was inspired to share his memories and give fans an unprecedented look into the creation of the film while participating in the twenty-fifth anniversary cast reunion. In As You Wish he has created an enchanting experience; in addition to never-before seen photos and interviews with his fellow cast mates, there are plenty of set secrets and backstage stories. With a foreword by Rob Reiner and a limited edition original poster by acclaimed artist Shepard Fairey, As You Wish is a must-have for all fans of this beloved film.Review""The movie The Princess Bride achieved a certain cinematic magic, which Elwes (Westley) captures in his warm and revealing behind-the-scenes account. At 23, he was one of the youngest actors in the movie and was largely unknown. He proved himself early on during filming when he suggested to director Rob Reiner that instead of going in feet first to rescue Buttercup in the Fire Swamp quicksand scene, as written by William Goldman, it would be more heroic to dive in headfirst. The stunt hadn't been designed for that move and Elwes could have been seriously injured, but his idea winds up in the film. Elwes also describes breaking his toe while riding costar André the Giant's ATV, and relates other juicy anecdotes. The author was in virtually every scene of the film, including the sword-fighting sequence, which required intensive training. The book also includes reminiscences about the production from Reiner, Goldman, and other members of the cast."" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Review""Cary Elwes' book recounts the wacky antics of Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner and others behind 'The Princess Bride'....[A] delightful remembrance of the three months he spent making the unsung movie that went on to become a family classic."" New York Daily News Review""A tender, comical behind-the-scenes look at the 1987 classic."" US Weekly Review""Filled with fun tidbits from the cast about making a movie that became an unlikely classic."" Los Angeles Magazine Review""Fascinating memoir...Cary Elwes has proved that he is as adept with the mighty pen as he is with the powerful sword...a treasure trove of fascinating behind-the-scenes accounts... As You Wish is thoughtfully and seamlessly compiled."" New Orleans Living Magazine Review""Even if you don't have a crush on Cary Elwes, you'll enjoy this vivid behind-the-scenes account of the making of The Princess Bride. His stories, especially those involving Andre the Giant, will leave you in stitches. Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal, and others also recount their experiences. An amusing account of a group of performers who came together to make a heartfelt film that is loved by many."" Library Journal Review""The movie The Princess Bride achieved a certain cinematic magic, which Elwes (Westley) captures in his warm and revealing behind-the-scenes account."" Publishers Weekly Review""As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making Of The Princess Bride, which seems designed to hit all fan-service sweet spots for folks familiar with the film, as it's stuffed with photos, recollections, and interviews with relevant parties. The book's dust jacket is even a Shepard Fairey print, for crying out loud. I never had a chance."" The A.V. Club VideoAbout the AuthorCary Elwes is a celebrated English actor who starred in The Princess Bride before moving on to roles in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Glory, Days of Thunder, Twister, and Saw, among many other acclaimed performances. He will always be indebted to The Princess Bride, he says, for changing his life and giving him a career that has spanned decades. He lives in Hollywood, California, with his family. Find out more about Cary Elwes on Twitter @Cary_Elwes. Joe Layden has authored or coauthored more than thirty books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers.","Elwes, Cary and Layden, Joe and Reiner, Rob",9781476764023,1476764026,Hardcover,10/14/2014,"Touchstone Books",,English,259,1.20IN,6.20IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Joe Layden","Rob Reiner",B,"Film and Television-History and Criticism|Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
247,"2017-04-27 07:09:08",Bossypants,,"Tina Fey",9780316056892,0316056898,"Mass Market",01/29/2013,"LITTLE BROWN & CO",,,250,.73IN,4.59IN,.75,,Yes,,"Tina Fey",,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
248,"2017-04-02 18:56:42","Bossypants UK","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsShe's a comic genius, every woman's imaginary best friend, and the thinking man's sex symbol. Tina Fey didn't get this far without pulling on her bossypants. Before there was Liz Lemon, before there was ""Sarah Palin,"" before there was Weekend Update — there was a woman with a dream. A dream that one day she would write a book about how she got here. But she had to get there first. On her way to becoming an award-winning superstar, Tina Fey struggled through some questionable haircuts, some after-school jobs, the rise of nachos as a cultural phenomenon, a normal childhood, a happy marriage and joyful motherhood. Her story must be told! Fey's pursuit of the perfect beauty routine may actually give you laugh lines, and her depiction of her whirlwind tour of duty as the Other Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live takes you behind the scenes of a comedy event that transfixed the nation. Now, Fey can reflect on what she's learned: You're no one until someone calls you bossy. (Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake.)Review""Fey's caustic wit and wry delivery made it clear she wasn't another airhead comedienne willing to play dumb for laughs. If the world needed reminding that smart girls can be funny and sexy, Tina Fey proved it."" PlayboyReview""Goddess of the geeks."" TimeSynopsisFrom her lifetime pursuit of the perfect Beauty Routine to the oversold joys of breastfeeding, from her whirlwind tour of duty as the Other Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live to her early days in the comedy trenches — Tina Fey puts her unique and endlessly funny mark on modern life, work, marriage, and motherhood.About the AuthorTina Fey lives in Manhattan, where she is the third funniest person in her household, after her husband and five-year-old daughter.","Tina Fey",9780751547832,0751547832,"Trade Paperback",01/01/2012,Sphere,,English,,,,,,,9780751547832,,,,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
249,"2017-04-27 07:09:26",Bossypants,,"Tina Fey",9780316056861,0316056863,Hardcover,04/05/2011,"HACHETTE BOOK GROUP",,English,277,.99IN,6.47IN,1.25,5,Yes,,"Tina Fey",,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
251,"2017-04-02 18:57:08","Why Not Me?","From Powells.comStaff PickCome on. Mindy just wants to be liked. She confesses to being an imperfectly proportioned, quirky semi-star and is so eager to dish up all sorts of hilarious episodes of her life — and actually lets you know how she feels about them. You'll like her, all right, and maybe even go so far as to love her just a little. Recommended By Mark I., Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,” Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate — this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”) “Player” tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (“I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs.”) In “Unlikely Leading Lady,” she muses on America’s fixation with the weight of actresses, (“Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they’re walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture.”) And in “Soup Snakes,” Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (“I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.”) Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper. Review“Kaling’s irreverent take on life is both uproariously funny and dead-on....Advice on a variety of topics — including why extensions make everyone more beautiful and how the world needs to start assuming that all young women are confident — make this an empowering and entertaining read.” Publishers WeeklyReview“…insightful personal essays from one of Hollywood’s cleverest writers....Intrepid and often irreverent, Kaling humbly probes her own triumphs and defeats with laugh-out-loud results."" Kirkus ReviewsReview“Hilarious…Kaling knows her strengths, and plays to them brilliantly....Aside from that effortlessly conversational tone and her pitch-perfect humor, Kaling’s biggest strength here is curatorial. She gives us the candy we came for — the advice, the anecdotes, the straight talk on body image — but sprinkles in something extra.” Entertainment WeeklyReview“Kaling has written a second book that’s funnier, sharper and more confident than her 2011 collection of personal essays and pop culture riffs called Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). Even the title of that initial effort implied that Kaling was trying to find her place; the tone of this new one announces that she’s found it and is more than comfortable inviting people to spend time with her there.” Washington PostAbout the AuthorMindy Kaling lives in rural New Hampshire and does not own a TV.","Mindy Kaling",9780804138147,0804138141,Hardcover,09/15/2015,"CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP INC",,English,,,,,,,,,,,Humor-Anthologies,,
252,"2017-04-06 02:32:15","Not That Kind of Girl A Young...",,"Lena Dunham",9780812994995,081299499X,Hardcover,09/30/2014,"Random House",,,265,1.30IN,5.80IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,Humor-Anthologies,,
253,"2017-04-04 05:07:11","Youre Never Weird on the Internet...",,"Felicia Day",9781476785653,1476785651,Hardcover,08/11/2015,"Simon & Schuster",,English,260,9.25,6.25,1.25,,Yes,,,,,"Biography - General",,
257,"2017-11-09 03:28:59","Are You There, Vodka? Its Me,...",,"Chelsea Handler",9781416596363,1416596364,"Trade Paperback",12/29/2009,"Simon & Schuster",,English,264,8.50,5.25,.75,1,,2801416596365,"Paul Heyman",,,"Humor-Anthologies|Personal Memoirs",,
258,"2017-04-02 18:57:50","Shakespeare: The World as Stage","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases (vanish into thin air, foregone conclusion, one fell swoop) that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's — the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. His Shakespeare is like no one else's — the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.About the Author Bill Bryson is the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, The Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes from a Small Island, Notes from a Big Country, Down Under, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Shakespeare: The World as Stage, At Home, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Aventis Prize for Science Books, and was awarded the Descartes Science Communication Prize. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bryson now lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and four children.","Bryson, Bill",9780061673696,0061673692,"Trade Paperback",10/21/2008,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS","Eminent Lives",,199,.60IN,5.30IN,".52 in.",1,,2800061673698,,,B,Biography-Literary,,
259,"2017-04-08 16:21:55","Paddle Your Own Canoe One Mans...",,"Nick Offerman",9780451467096,0451467094,"Trade Paperback",09/02/2014,"New American Library",,,340,.73IN,5.46IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Nick Offerman",,B,Humor-Anthologies,,
260,"2017-05-10 03:20:47","NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and...",,"NOFX, Jeff Alulis",9780306824777,0306824779,"Trade Paperback",04/12/2016,"Da Capo Press",,,368,1.10IN,5.90IN,,,Yes,,"NOFX NOFX",,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
261,"2017-04-27 07:10:50","My Horizontal Life A Collection...",,"Chelsea Handler",9781582346182,1582346186,"Trade Paperback",06/01/2005,"MACMILLAN PUBLISHING SERVICES",,,213,"8.25 in.","5.53 in.",".595 in.",1,,2801582346184,,,,"Personal Memoirs|Biography - General|Sex|Man-woman relationships",,
262,"2017-05-16 10:02:49","The Bassoon King",,"Rainn Wilson",9780525954538,0525954538,Hardcover,11/10/2015,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,320,9.00,6.00,,8,,,,,,Humor-Anthologies,,
263,"2017-04-06 02:33:39","Not That Kind of Girl: A Young...",,"Lena Dunham",9780812985177,0812985176,"Trade Paperback",10/20/2015,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,288,,,,,,,,,,"Biography - General",,
265,"2017-04-04 16:57:29","Running with Scissors: a Memoir",,"Augusten Burroughs",9780312422271,031242227X,"Trade Paperback",06/01/2003,"MACMILLAN PUBLISHING SERVICES",,,320,.85IN,5.62IN,1.00,1,,2800312422273,,,B,"Novelists, American|Amherst|Burroughs, Augusten - Childhood and youth|Novelists, American -- 20th century.|Personal Memoirs",,
266,"2017-04-04 16:57:11",Binge,,"Tyler Oakley",9781501117695,1501117696,Hardcover,10/20/2015,"Gallery Books",,,320,.90IN,5.80IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,Humor-Anthologies,,
268,"2017-04-03 02:11:18","Chelsea Girls",,"Myles, Eileen",9780062394668,0062394665,"Trade Paperback",09/29/2015,"Ecco Press",,,288,.80IN,5.40IN,1.00,,,,,,B,"Gay and Lesbian-Lesbian Fiction",,
269,"2017-04-02 18:59:34",Dry,"Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry — the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life — and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.Review""Burroughs's story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out....In the end, it's all up to Burroughs, and to give the end away would be criminal, for this memoir operates on a high level of involvement and suspense."" Kirkus ReviewsReview""Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them....Burroughs strains here to replicate [the] zany tone [of Running with Scissors] and occasionally indulges in navel-gazing, but readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won't be disappointed."" Publishers WeeklyReview""Mr. Burroughs remains ebulliently glib when it's useful, as befits his advertising skills. But Dry also deals with two deaths: his lover's and, very nearly, his own. These are no laughing matters, but Mr. Burroughs remains adept at mixing comedy and calamity."" Janet Maslin, The New York TimesReview""Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs's prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he's doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drink — as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and courage it takes to make the sadness so funny, all at the same time. If anything, Dry is even more compelling than Burroughs's first outing."" TimeReview""More than a heartbreaking tale; it's a heroic one. As with its predecessor, we finish the book amazed not only that Burroughs can write so brilliantly, but that he's even alive."" PeopleReview""[A] wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining."" The New York Times Book Review Review""A deeper book than Scissors, revealing Burroughs to be a more accomplished writer, creating scenes of real power."" USA TodayReview""Augusten Burroughs is a wickedly good writer....Dry is a great read. Grade A."" Chicago Sun-Times Review""What makes Dry juicy enough to hold us rapt is not sordid debauchery but the clarity with which Burroughs etches the perilously thin line between control and oblivion. Burroughs draws the cliff so eloquently that we're right there with him when he starts flirting with the brink....One day at a time, Burroughs builds a deliberate but compelling story, lining up the shots for us until we have no choice but to knock each one back and then turn the page for the next."" San Francisco Chronicle Review""Augusten Burroughs's Dry: A Memoir, a brilliant, insightful, and fabulously funny book that charts his road to sobriety....Dry catches the reader off guard on every page, challenging what we've come to expect from rehab literature."" Paper magazineReview""When you are as self-deprecatingly funny and write as vividly and unpretentiously as Burroughs, well, I guess that's free rein to write 100 memoirs — and bring them on immediately."" The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Review""Like the alcohol he so enjoys, Burroughs's story of getting dry will go straight into your bloodstream and leave you buzzing, exhilarated, and wiped out. Burroughs is a malcontented, successful advertising copywriter in his twenties, gay, living in Manhattan, and owner of a childhood that the word 'nightmare' doesn't even begin to cover (as described in Running with Scissors, 2002). Burroughs is an alcoholic...he is funny and dark...in his own half-mad way, he's an original, a step aslant of the cutting edge, and wonderfully capable of expressing the miseries and sublimities of detox."" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Review""Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them....Readers accustomed to his heady cocktail of fizzy humor and epiphanic poignancy won't be disappointed."" Publishers Weekly SynopsisWith unconventional wit and a wonderfully weird way of looking at things, Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors, chronicles his life on the edge after leaving his deeply eccentric foster family.About the AuthorAugusten Burroughs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Magical Thinking, and, most recently, Possible Side Effects, which have also been New York Times bestsellers and are published around the world. A film version of Running with Scissors was adapted for the screen by Ryan Murphy. Augusten has been named one of the fifteen funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts.","Augusten Burroughs",9780312423797,0312423799,"Trade Paperback",04/01/2004,"ST MARTINS PRESS",,,309,"8.11 in.","5.51 in.",".84 in.",1,,2800312423799,,,,"Novelists, American -- 20th century.|Biography-Literary|Novelists, American|Advertising agencies|Manhattan (new york, n.y.)",,
270,"2017-04-04 17:38:39","Bettyville: A Memoir",,"George Hodgman",9780143107880,0143107887,"Trade Paperback",02/02/2016,"Penguin Books",,English,288,,,,,,,,,,,,
271,"2017-04-02 18:59:56","Redefining Realness My Path to Womanhood Identity Love & So Much More","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsNew York Times Bestseller • Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize • Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist • Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • Lambda Literary Award Finalist • Time Magazine “30 Most Influential People on the Internet” In this bestselling transgender memoir written by an African American, an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age. “Undercurrents of strong emotion swirl throughout this well-written book…An enlightening, much-needed perspective on transgender identity” (Kirkus Reviews).In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Those twenty-three hundred words were life-altering for the People.com editor, turning her into an influential and outspoken public figure and a desperately needed voice for an often voiceless community. In these pages, she offers a bold and inspiring perspective on being young, multicultural, economically challenged, and transgender in America. This “heart-rending autobiography of love, longing, and fulfillment” (bell hooks, author of All About Love) follows Mock’s quest for identity, from an early, unwavering conviction about her gender to a turbulent adolescence in Honolulu that saw her transitioning during the tender years of high school, self-medicating with hormones at fifteen, and flying across the world alone for sex reassignment surgery at just eighteen. Despite the hurdles, Mock received a scholarship to college and moved to New York City, where she earned a master’s degree and enjoyed the success of an enviable career. Now, with unflinching honesty, Mock uses her own experience to impart vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of trans youth and brave girls like herself. A profound statement of affirmation from a courageous woman, Redefining Realness provides a whole new outlook on what it means to be a woman today, and shows as never before how to be authentic, unapologetic, and wholly yourself.Review“Courageous! Told with a spirit of raw honesty that moves beyond confession to redemptive revelation, this book is a life map for transformation—for changing minds. A heart-rending autobiography of love, longing, and fulfillment.” bell hooks, feminist, social activist, and author of All About LoveReview“Redefining Realness is a classic American autobiography. Like Richard Wright and Maya Angelou, Janet Mock brings us into a world we may not know and with breathtaking insight, courage, and masterful craft makes her story universal.” Barbara Smith, author of the Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color PressReview""Janet Mocks groundbreaking book is testimony to the remarkable progress trans people have achieved over the last decade-- and shines a bright light on the work that still needs to be done. Mocks clear, lucid prose will open hearts and minds, and further the goals of equality and justice--not just for trans people, but for everyone. Redefining Realness is loving, searing, and true."" Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Stuck in the Middle With YouReview“Redefining Realness is a riveting, emotional, crisply written testimony. I couldn't put it down. I aspire to be as unflinchingly brave! Janet Mock's story simultaneously embodies, complicates, and subverts the concept of American exceptionalism and self-creation.” Laverne Cox, actress, advocate, and star of Orange Is the New BlackReview“Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.” Michaela angela Davis, Image Activist/Writer/CNN ContributorReview“Every Cinderella story has its problematic step-parents to maneuver around, and its metaphorical fireplaces to clean, before the heroine is whisked off to the ball. Janet Mocks is no exception. But the real magic here is not of the fairy-tale kind. Redefining Realness overflows with the everyday magic of survival and resiliency in low income communities of color, of loving kindness bursting through the cracks of a hard reality, and of the life-sustaining bonds of family, friendships, and a powerful trans sisterhood.” Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT, University of ArizonaReview ""Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature."" Raquel Cepeda, author of Bird of Paradise: How I Became LatinaReview“An eye-opening and unapologetic story that is much greater than mere disclosure.... An enlightening, much-needed perspective on transgender identity.” Kirkus ReviewsReview“Mock defies the historically apolitical confines of the transgender memoir, and draws bright lines connecting her experiences to the larger realm of social justice, with a keen political eye that uses her individual experience to elucidate the wider condition of trans women of color in the U.S. Her vivid prose arouses every sense.... Although the book is ostensibly one womans coming-of-age story, Mock fulfills grander purposes here; in coming to terms with her own difficult journey she also uses that experience didactically, as if to take the uninitiated, non-transgender reader with her, most certainly achieving 'realness.'” Publishers WeeklyReview“...intelligent and educational…. Recommended for lovers of memoirs and for readers with sincere interest in the subject matter.” Library JournalReview“Far too many assume that Janet Mock's story is primarily about her body. This book is irrefutable evidence that Janet must be understood through her intellect, spirit, and wit. Janet does what only great writers of autobiography accomplish—she tells a story of the self, which turns out to be a reflection of all humanity. You will be changed by this book.” Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University Professor and host of MSNBC ' s "" Melissa Harris-Perry ""Review“A classic feminist coming-of-age story thats worthy of your mantel. . . . Her memoir recounts a life that is both hardscrabble and hard-fought, making for a must-read book that is at turns riveting and wonderfully emotionally nuanced.” The AdvocateReview“Pardon the hyperbole, but Janet Mock may be the best person ever. . . . A beautiful, powerful memoir.” RookieReview“A fiery success.”Review“The beauty of Mocks memoir is that it is both personal and universal; her story is her own, but it also transcends the specificity of her life narrative to touch all of us.” Lambda LiteraryReview“Redefining Realness is a rare autobiography in that it reads less like a memoir and more like a conversation with a homegirl. . . . [It] made me feel like I was on my couch with a friend sharing secrets rather than reading a carefully constructed narrative. That, I think, is a gift.” Crunk Feminist CollectiveReview“Mocks grace in handling complexity is matched by her frankness, and she talks race, class, and intersectional politics without ever sounding polemical.” The RumpusReview“Mocks compelling memoir entrancingly chronicles the story of a multiracial trans womans becoming within a society that is still widely antagonistic to the non-White, non-male, transgender, and economically challenged among us. . . . Mock has written herself into herstory. And she has done so with clarity and poetic brilliance.” The Feminist WireReview“Janet Mock shares that which society tells us to keep secret . . . and uses it not only to strengthen herself, and empower other girls but also to educate.” For Books - ' - SakeReview“Heres the short version of my review: go buy it and read it now. . . . Mock brings the same bravery and fierce determination that is evident in her history to the writing of the book, claiming her own story and making sure experiences that have often been used to dehumanize trans women and reduce us to our transition status instead serve to give the reader a more full and honest glimpse of her humanity.” FeministingReview“Redefining Realness details a truly American story. Its poor heroine winning independence, success, and love through intelligence, determination, and hard work makes it timeless. Its portrait of a society grappling with issues of fragmented families, race, drug addiction, abuse, sex work, poverty, sexual orientation, and gender identity make it more timely and relevant than anyone expecting a ‘transgender memoir could possibly predict.” The Daily DotReview“A memoir that takes the coming-of-age narrative to both a higher and deeper level.” SlateReview“A fiery success.” The AtlanticSynopsisNew York Times Bestseller - Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize - Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist - Books for a Better Life Award Finalist - Lambda Literary Award Finalist - Time Magazine ""30 Most Influential People on the Internet"" - American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book In her profound and courageous New York Times bestseller, Janet Mock establishes herself as a resounding and inspirational voice for the transgender community--and anyone fighting to define themselves on their own terms. With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman's quest for self at all costs, Redefining Realness is a powerful vision of possibility and self-realization, pushing us all toward greater acceptance of one another--and of ourselves--showing as never before how to be unapologetic and real.About the AuthorJanet Mock is a writer and advocate, lauded by the Anti-Violence Project, the Center for American Progress, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, she has an MA in journalism from New York University, worked as an editor at People.com, and appeared in HBOs The Out List. Find out more at JanetMock.com.","Janet Mock",9781476709130,1476709130,"Trade Paperback",12/02/2014,"ATRIA BOOKS",,,288,.80IN,5.40IN,.75,,,,"Janet Mock",,B,"Trans|Biography - General",,
272,"2017-04-04 16:57:44","Boy Erased A Memoir",,"Garrard Conley",9781594633010,1594633010,Hardcover,05/10/2016,"RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM",,,352,1.50IN,5.60IN,,,,,,,B,,,
273,"2017-04-04 16:58:01","Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret...",,"Mikey Walsh",9781250022028,1250022029,"Trade Paperback",01/15/2013,"ST MARTINS GRIFFIN",,,278,.74IN,5.53IN,.75,,,,"Mikey Walsh",,B,"Biography - General|cultural heritage",,
274,"2017-04-04 17:38:52","Frank: A Life in Politics from...",,"Frank, Barney",9780374280307,0374280304,Hardcover,03/17/2015,"FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX",,,400,1.40IN,6.30IN,1.00,13,Yes,,,,B,"lgbt|American Governm|American Government/Legislative Branch|Biography-Political",,
275,"2017-04-04 16:58:15","American Savage",,"Dan Savage",9780142181003,0142181005,"Trade Paperback",05/27/2014,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,297,.70IN,5.20IN,.75,,,,"Bill Maher",,B,"Sociology -- essays.",,
276,"2017-04-04 16:58:15","Dirty River A Queer Femme of...",,"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha",9781551526003,155152600X,"Trade Paperback",11/03/2015,"ARSENAL PULP PRESS",,,240,.60IN,5.50IN,.75,,,,,,B,"Gay and Lesbian-General",,
277,"2017-04-04 17:38:52","Redefining Realness My Path to...",,"Janet Mock",9781476709123,1476709122,Hardcover,02/04/2014,"SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE",,,263,1.10IN,6.20IN,1.25,,,,"Janet Mock",,B,"Biography - General",,
278,"2017-04-04 16:58:25","American Savage Insights Slights...",,"Dan Savage",9780525954101,0525954104,Hardcover,05/01/2013,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,320,"8 in.","5.44 in.",".83 in.",,,,"Terry Miller",,,"Gay and Lesbian-General",,
279,"2017-04-04 16:58:25","Not My Fathers Son",,"Alan Cumming",9780062225061,0062225065,Hardcover,10/07/2014,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,294,1.20IN,5.90IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Alan Cumming",,B,"Biography - General|Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
280,"2017-04-04 16:58:43","Bettyville A Memoir",,"George Hodgman",9780525427209,0525427201,Hardcover,03/10/2015,"Viking Books",,,288,1.07IN,5.74IN,1.00,,,,"George Hodgman",,B,"Biography - General",,
281,"2017-04-04 17:38:52","In Bed with Gore Vidal",,"Tim Teeman",9781626010413,1626010412,"Trade Paperback",11/05/2013,"Riverdale Avenue Books",,,298,.67IN,5.51IN,,,,,,,B,Biography-Literary,,
282,"2017-04-04 16:58:52","Coming Out to Play",,"Robbie Rogers, Eric Marcus",9780143126614,014312661X,"Trade Paperback",11/25/2014,"Penguin Books",,,240,.80IN,5.40IN,.60,,Yes,,"Eric Marcus",,B,"Gay and Lesbian-General|Soccer",,
283,"2017-04-04 17:38:52","Sympathy for the Devil",,"Michael Mewshaw",9780374536015,0374536015,"Trade Paperback",01/19/2016,"Farrar, Straus and Giroux",,English,224,"8.25 in","5.50 in",,,,,,,B,Biography-Literary,,
284,"2017-04-04 17:38:52","Queer Rock Love: A Family Memoir",,"Schilt, Paige",9780986084430,0986084433,"Trade Paperback",08/13/2015,"Transgress Press",,English,226,.48IN,5.98IN,,,,,,,B,,,
285,"2017-04-04 17:38:57","Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about...",,"MS Ellen Krug",9780988698901,0988698900,"Trade Paperback",02/06/2013,"Stepladder Press",,English,328,.73IN,5.98IN,,,,9780988698901,"Ellen Krug",,B,,,
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288,"2017-04-04 17:36:12","Unbearable Lightness A Story of...",,"Portia De Rossi",9781439177792,1439177791,"Trade Paperback",07/05/2011,"Atria Books",,,308,.90IN,5.50IN,1.00,,Yes,9781439177792,"Portia de",,B,"Biography - General|anorexia, eating disorder, ellen degeneres, elen de generes, portia derossi, new york times, bestseller, jonathan safran foer, weight loss, body image, gay rights, lesbian, coming out, memoir, ally mcbeal, arrested development, actress, celebrity, famous",,
289,"2017-04-02 19:03:32",Night,"Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsA New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesels masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elies wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the authors original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets mans capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, corrects important details and presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Professor Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Throughout Night, Professor Wiesel addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Also included in this new edition is his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. “To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind so moving a record.” —Alfred Kazin “A slim volume of terrifying power.”—The New York Times“To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind so moving a record.” —Alfred Kazin“I gain courage from his courage.” —Oprah Winfrey ""Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art.""—Curt Leviant, Saturday Review ""What makes this book so chilling is not the pretense of what happened but a very real description of every thought, fear and the apathetic attitude demonstrated as a response . . . Night, Wiesel's autobiographical masterpiece, is a heartbreaking memoir.  Wiesel has taken his painful memories and channeled them into an amazing document which chronicles his most intense emotions every step along the way.""—Jose Del Real, Anchorage Daily News ""As a human document, Night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism.""—A. Alvarez, Commentary ""To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record.""—Alfred Kazin, The Reporter ""[Night] must be read by everyone interested in a respectable destiny for the human family.""—Emerson Price, The Cleveland Press ""Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the 'human holocaust' of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience—of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald—his father's corpse is already cold—let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended—to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance.""—Kirkus ReviewsReview""A slim volume of terrifying power"" The New York Times Review""What I maintain is that this personal record, coming after so many others and describing an outrage about which we might imagine we already know all that it is possible to know, is nevertheless different, distinct, unique....Have we ever thought about the consequence of a horror that, though less apparent, less striking than the other outrages, is yet the worst of all to those of us who have faith: the death of God in the soul of a child who suddenly discovers absolute evil?"" Francios MauriacReview""Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."" Curt Leviant, Saturday ReviewReview""As a human document, 'Night' is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism."" A. Alvarez, CommentarySynopsisA New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.SynopsisThis powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels.  What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting.  Annes diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peters story continues as he details life in Auschwitz with clarity and compassion  – and the horrific fates of the Annexs occupants. Anne Frank's story has never been told quite like this.Includes a Reader's Guide.SynopsisEveryone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day? What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne’s diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter’s story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz – and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex’s occupants.About the AuthorElie Wiesel is the author of more than fifty books, including Night, his harrowing account of his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book, first published in 1955, was selected for Oprahs Book Club in 2006. Wiesel is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and lives with his family in New York City. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.Reading Group GuideQuestions for Discussion 1. Compare Wiesels preface to the memoir itself. Has his perspective shifted in any way over the years? 2. In his Nobel lecture, presented in 1986, Wiesel writes of the power of memory, including the notion that the memory of death can serve as a shield against death. He mentions several sources of injustice that reached a boiling point in the 1980s, such as Apartheid and the suppression of Lech Walesa, as well as fears that are still with us, such as terrorism and the threat of nuclear war. Will twenty-first-century society be marked by remembrance, or by forgetting? 3. How does the author characterize himself in Night? What does young Eliezer tell us about the town, community, and home that defined his childhood? How would you describe his storytelling tone? 4. Why doesnt anyone believe Moishe the Beadle? In what way did other citizens around the world share in Sighets naïveté? Would you have heeded Moishes warnings, or would his stories have seemed too atrocious to be true? Has modern journalism solved the problem of complacency, or are Cassandras more prevalent than ever? 5. As Eliezers family and neighbors are confined to a large ghetto and then expelled to a smaller, ghostlier one whose residents have already been deported, what do you learn about the process by which Hitler implemented doom? How are you affected by the uncertainty endured by Sighets Jews on their prolonged journey to the concentration camps? 6. With the words “Women to the right!” Eliezer has a final glimpse of his mother and of his sister, Tzipora. His father later wonders whether he should have presented his son as a younger boy, so that Eliezer could have joined the women. What turning point is represented by that moment, when their family is split and the gravity of every choice is made clear? 7. At Birkenau, Eliezer considers ending his life by running into the electric fence. His father tells him to remember Mrs. Schächter, who had become delusional on the train. What might account for the fact that Eliezer and his father were able to keep their wits about them while others slipped into madness? 8. Eliezer observes the now-infamous inscription above the entrance to Auschwitz, equating work with liberty. How does that inscription come to embody the deceit and bitter irony of the Nazi camps? What was the “work” of the prisoners? Were any of the Auschwitz survivors ever liberated emotionally? 9. Eliezers gold crown makes him a target for spurious bargaining, concluding in a lavatory with Franek, the foreman, and a dentist from Warsaw. Discuss the hierarchies in place at Auschwitz. How was a prisoners value determined? Which pris- oners were chosen for supervisory roles? Which ones were more likely to face bullying, or execution? 10. Eliezer expresses sympathy for Job, the biblical figure who experienced horrendous loss and illness as Satan and God engaged in a debate over Jobs faithfulness. After watching the lynching and slow death of a young boy, Eliezer tells himself that God is hanging from the gallows as well. In his Nobel lecture, Wiesel describes the Holocaust as “a universe where God, betrayed by His creatures, covered His face in order not to see.” How does Wiesels understanding of God change throughout the book? How did the prisoners in Night, including rabbis, reconcile their agony with their faith? 11. After the surgery on Eliezers foot, he and his father must face being marched to a more remote camp or staying behind to face possible eleventh-hour execution amid rumors of approaching Red Army troops. Observing that Hitlers deadliness is the only reliable aspect of their lives, Wiesels father decides that he and his son should leave the camp. The memoir is filled with such crossroads, the painful outcomes of which can be known only in retrospect. How does Wiesel respond to such outcomes? Do you believe these outcomes are driven by destiny, or do they simply reflect the reality of decision-making? 12. In his final scenes with his father, Eliezer must switch roles with him, becoming the provider and comforter, despite advice from others to abandon the dying man. What accounts for the tender, unbreakable bond between Eliezer and his father long after other men in their camp begin fending for themselves? How does their bond compare to those in your family? 13. What is the significance of the books final image, Wiesels face, reflected in a mirror? He writes that a corpse gazed back at him, with a look that has never left him. What aspects of him died during his ordeal? What aspects were born in their place? What do you make of his observation that among the men liberated with him, not one sought revenge? 14. Wiesel faced constant rejection when he first tried to publish Night; numerous major publishing houses in France and the United States closed their doors to him. His memoir is now a classic that has inspired many other historians and Holocaust survivors to write important contributions to this genre of remembrance. What is unique about Wiesels story? How does his approach compare to that of other memoirists whose work you have read?","Wiesel, Elie",9780374500016,0374500010,"Trade Paperback",01/16/2006,"FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX","Oprah's Book Club",,120,.40IN,5.50IN,.50,1,,,Unknown,,B,"Jews|Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)|World war, 1939-1945|Biography-Historical|Romania",,
290,"2017-04-08 15:31:55","Wild: From Lost to Found on the...",,"Cheryl Strayed",9780307476074,0307476073,"Trade Paperback",03/26/2013,Vintage,,,336,.90IN,5.10IN,.50,,,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
291,"2017-04-08 15:31:55","Bad Feminist",,"Roxane Gay",9780062282712,0062282719,"Trade Paperback",08/05/2014,"HarperCollins Publishers",,,320,1.00IN,5.20IN,.75,,,,,,B,"Sociology -- essays.|Humor-Anthologies",,
292,"2017-04-09 23:21:37","Our Revolution: A Future to...",,"Bernie Sanders",9781250132925,1250132924,Hardcover,11/15/2016,"Thomas Dunne Books",,English,464,,,,,,,,,B,,,
293,"2017-04-05 17:40:22","Furiously Happy: A Funny Book...",,"Jenny Lawson",9781250077004,1250077001,Hardcover,09/22/2015,"Flatiron Books",,,329,9.50,6.25,1.00,,,,"Jenny Lawson",,B,"Biography - General",,
294,"2017-04-28 20:26:10","Brain on Fire: My Month of...",,"Susannah Cahalan",9781451621389,1451621388,"Trade Paperback",08/06/2013,"Simon & Schuster",,,266,.80IN,5.50IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,Biography/Medical,,
296,"2017-04-04 21:27:08","Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks",,"Rebecca Skloot",9781400052189,1400052181,"Trade Paperback",03/08/2011,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,381,1.20IN,5.30IN,1.25,1,Yes,4294967295,"Rebecca Skloot",,B,"History|Health and Medicine-History of Medicine",,
297,"2017-05-10 02:09:40","I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood...",,"Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb",9780316322423,0316322423,"Trade Paperback",06/02/2015,"Back Bay Books",,,368,1.20IN,5.90IN,.75,,Yes,,"Christina Lamb",,B,"Biography - General",,
299,"2017-04-06 02:31:15","Lets Pretend This Never Happened",,"Jenny Lawson",9780425261019,0425261018,"Trade Paperback",03/05/2013,"BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP",,,363,1.00IN,5.40IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Jenny Lawson",,B,"Biography - General",,
300,"2017-04-06 21:47:26","The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding...",,"Chris Guillebeau",9780385348867,038534886X,"Trade Paperback",04/05/2016,"CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP INC",,,320,1.10IN,5.10IN,,,,,,,B,,,
302,"2017-04-06 02:31:15","Eat Pray Love One Womans Search...",,"Elizabeth Gilbert",9780143038412,0143038419,"Trade Paperback",02/01/2007,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,400,.90IN,5.40IN,.75,1,,2800143038414,"Elizabeth Gilbert",,B,"Gilbert, Elizabeth - Travel|United states|Personal Memoirs|Travel|Travel writers - United States",,
303,"2017-04-07 19:09:07","Born to Run a Hidden Tribe...",,"Christopher McDougall",9780307279187,0307279189,"Trade Paperback",03/29/2011,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,287,.95IN,5.26IN,.75,,,,"Scott Jurek",,B,"anthropology;cultural anthropology",,
307,"2017-04-02 19:06:43","The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories","Staff PickIn 2012, Marina Keegan wrote a commencement essay for her college newspaper called ""The Opposite of Loneliness."" A few days after graduating magna cum laude from Yale, she died in a car accident. This deeply moving posthumous collection contains that hopeful essay along with a mix of other writings from a talent whose work continues to inspire. Recommended By Renee P., Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsThe instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine).Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story “Cold Pastoral” was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay “Even Artichokes Have Doubts” was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. As Marina wrote: “We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over…We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina’s essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. “How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful” (People).Review“Two years after a young writer’s death, her words soar....The Opposite of Loneliness...sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth. The prose, polished but thoroughly unselfconscious, is heartbreaking evidence of what could have been.” O MagazineReview""The Opposite of Loneliness captures in both fiction and nonfiction [Keegan's] adventures in love and lust, the weird bliss of being stoned, and, as she writes, what it’s like to see 'everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.'"" ElleReview""Remarkable...a compelling literary voice...the appeal of this collection is its improvisational quality, its feeling of being unfinished but always questioning."" Chicago TribuneReview""How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, [Keegan] could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful."" People MagazineReview""A triumph...Keegan was right to prod us all to reflect on what we seek from life."" Nicholas Kristof, The New York TimesReview""The Opposite of Loneliness does [Keegan's] talent and memory justice, both as a picture of a generation entering adulthood and as a highly personal portrait of a gifted young woman."" Pittsburgh-Post GazetteReview“What a gift Keegan has left behind. Not only in her written words...but also in her legacy of social activism and fierce belief in leading a life of purpose, not privilege."" Joseph P. Kahn, Boston GlobeReview“Keegan’s fiction… is built around the kind of empathetic extrapolation that makes for all the best realism… Keegan would have been — would have continued to be — a star. She would have been famous, not quietly or vaguely, but really, really famous.” The New RepublicReview“The loveliest piece of writing I’ve ever seen from someone so young… Her voice is steady and often very funny, her senses of character and pace are frighteningly good, and the flow of her prose is easy to get carried away by. She wasn't just college-talented; she was talented, period.” Kevin Roose, New York MagazineAbout the AuthorMarina Keegan (1989-2012) was an award-winning author, journalist, playwright, poet, actress, and activist. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times; her fiction has been published on NewYorker.com, and read on NPR’s Selected Shorts; her musical, Independents, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. Marina’s final essay for The Yale Daily News, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” became an instant global sensation, viewed by more than 1.4 million people from 98 countries. For more information, please visit TheOppositeofLoneliness.com.","Marina Keegan, Anne Fadiman",9781476753911,1476753911,"Trade Paperback",04/14/2015,"SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE",,,256,.70IN,5.40IN,1.00,,,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
310,"2017-04-03 02:10:04","The Argonauts",,"Maggie Nelson",9781555977351,1555977359,"Trade Paperback",01/26/2016,"Graywolf Press",,,160,.40IN,5.50IN,,,,,,,,"Biography - General",,
312,"2017-04-09 14:18:50","Unbroken A World War II Story of...",,"Laura Hillenbrand",9780812974492,0812974492,"Trade Paperback",07/29/2014,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,500,1.20IN,5.50IN,1.25,12,Yes,,"Laura Hillenbrand",,B,Biography-Military,,
313,"2017-04-28 20:26:10","When Breath Becomes Air",,"Paul Kalanithi",9780812988406,081298840X,Hardcover,01/12/2016,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,256,1.10IN,5.40IN,,,,,,,,,,
315,"2017-04-04 21:27:45","Temperance Creek: A Memoir",,"Pamela Royes",9781619027305,1619027305,"Trade Paperback",06/14/2016,"Counterpoint LLC",,,340,1.30IN,6.00IN,,,,,,,B,,,