Hard Cover Non-Fiction
Come to Win
by Venus Williams
With Come to Win, Venus Williams, the multiple Grand Slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, along with an esteemed group of business leaders, politicians, and acclaimed artists, serves up a book of wisdom that shows how to turn a competitive spirit and athletic background into success off the playing field.
Tattoos on the Heart
by Gregory Boyle
As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. These essays about universal kinship and redemption are examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
Medium Raw
by Anthony Bourdain
This long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed chef's previous bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, describes the many changes in the subculture of chefs and cooks, the restaurant business, and Bourdain's own life in the past ten years.
Sh*t My Dad Says
by Justin Halperin
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him.
Women, Food and God
by Geneen Roth
Roth wrote about comulsive, emotional eating in When Food Is Love, her first New York Times bestseller. Now she adds a new dimension to her work in Women, Food and God. Her basic concept - the way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God.
