"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life. Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their divorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about divorce -- heavy on the dark humor with a light coating of anger and annoyance. After all, on the heels of planning to...

Discusses the political battle between President Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court in 1937 over the court's invalidation of particular New Deal programs and Roosevelt's subsequent plan to create more seats for liberal justices that he hoped to put into place to counter the conservative majority that existed at the time.

"In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in LA in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams about what life will be like with a woman in the White House. And then, Donald Trump happens. In a torpor of despair, she decides that she's had enough of the privileged bubble she's lived in--a bubble within a bubble--and that it's time to make some changes, both in her personal life and in the world at large. At home, she embarks on a 'Year of Self-Sufficiency'--learning...

"Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window. "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed...

During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

In this unforgettable narrative of D-Day, Joseph Balkoski describes the minute-by-minute combat as it unfolded on Omaha Beach, allowing soldiers to speak for themselves as they recall their attempts to maneuver bombers through heavy cloud cover, the claustrophobic terror aboard transports, and the relentless fire that greeted them on the beach. Equal parts oral history and meticulous reconstruction, Omaha Beach is the closest the modern reader can...

Bellamy, founder of the acclaimed blog Heavy Petal, gives readers the dirt on growing gorgeous organic food with very little square footage. Simple, straightforward growing advice can help gardeners transform just a snippet of space into a stylish and edible oasis.

"A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington"--

A Harvard physician's scientifically proven method to improve physical and mental health by optimizing the hormones in the 30s, 40s, and beyond. Dr. Gottfried combines natural therapies with rigorous scientific testing to help women feel fully alive, especially in the years prior to menopause.

Outlines the latest presentation of the Easyway method for quitting smoking, which focuses on eliminating the fears that keep smokers hooked, and incorporates lessons learned from teachers at Allen Carr clinics around the world.