The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.” The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and “summoned her dead.” She was murdered three months later.The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur. James Ellroy unsparingly describes his... 

I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.) Reviews

I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan’s dark underbelly — a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals…a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved “as tart and funny as a Noel Coward play, for... 

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

ISBN13: 9780143038412 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a... 

All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Twenty years ago David Sheff climbed the back steps of the Dakota into the personal thoughts and dreams of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. From the kitchen to the studio and up those fateful Dakota steps, Sheff recorded 20 hours of tape, discussing everything from childhood to the Beatles.Sheff gives a rare and last glimpse of John and Yoko, one that seemed to look beyond the kitchen table to the future of the world with startling premonitions of what was to come.John Lennon could be angry, as he is in Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970, and nasty, as proven by Albert Goldman’s... 

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

ISBN13: 9781594133329 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan’s lastbook , The Omnivore’s Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can... 

What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing

New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. The more than four hundred thousand readers stirred by the story of Ron Hall and Denver Moore will resonate with the all new, stand-alone true stories of hope and healing offered in this intimate, authentic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. With new “Denverisms” and reflections from Denver on his personal dealings with homelessness and disrespect from others, additional insights from Ron on what we can learn from people... 

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

ISBN13: 9780670021659 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which—after unexpectedly detaining... 

The Prince

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli is arguably the best known political treatise of all time. This edition is formatted specifically for the kindle, with a hyperlinked table of contents. The text was translated by W.K. Marriott, and contains explanatory footnotes, a biographical sketch of Machiaveli, and the complete text of two related works by Machiavelli: Description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino. and The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. This edition was formatted specifically for the Kindle and includes a hyperlinked table of contents,When Lorenzo de’ Medici seized... 

My Life in France

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en route to Paris, where he was to work for the USIS, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who didn’t speak a word of French and knew nothing about the country,... 

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee Reviews

ISBN13: 9780061856433 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Warning from publisher to reader: At HarperCollins, we are committed to customer satisfaction. Before proceeding with your purchase, please take the following questionnaire to determine your likelihood of enjoying this book: 1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. 2. Are you offended by the following... 

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