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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
David Kaufman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make... |
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Kenneth L Adelman · Harpercollins
Pages: 375
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War - by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour... |
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No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page
Martin Power · Overlook Onmibus
Pages: 698
Format: Print book
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No Quarter: The Three Lives Of Jimmy Page explores the life, times and music of the man behind one of the 20th century's greatest bands: the mighty Led Zeppelin.Using new and exclusive interviews Martin Power tells the full story of Jimmy Page's long career. Starting with the early Sixties... |
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Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth 1922-1939
Martin Gilbert · Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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In this concluding volume of Gilbert's renowned series, readers see Churchill at the pinnacle of wartime power as Britain's victorious leader in 1945. The many-sided nature of Churchill's abilities and his achievements fill this work with a multicolored tapestry of people and events. Two 8-page... |
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I Hate Everyone, Except You
Clinton Kelly · Gallery Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and television host Clinton Kelly pens a hilariously candid, deliciously snarky collection of essays about his journey from awkward kid to slightly-less-awkward adult.Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate... |
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
Matthew Dennison · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three... |
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Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
David J. Skal · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society.First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife -- one rivaling even its immortal creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained... |
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Memoirs of a Ghost: One Sheet Away
Andrea Cagan · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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Andrea Cagan knows how it feels to be a ghost - to hide in the shadows and remain One Sheet Away from the limelight. A professional ghostwriter for many years, she has worked with movie stars, pro athletes, royalty, motivational speakers and rock stars, helping them recall and synthesize... |
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Standing Strong: An Unlikely Sisterhood and the Court Case that Made History
Diane Reeve · Hci
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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Diane Reeve thought she had found everything in handsome Frenchman Philippe Padieu. Believing him to be her last great love, she spent every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday with him for four years, and they were about to buy a house together. When Diane learned he had Tuesday, Thursday,... |
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The Fortress: A Love Story
Danielle Trussoni · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side... |
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Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
Claire Hoffman · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and '90s - a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers.When Claire... |
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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This bold new history recovers an unknown American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley. In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning Harvard historian Jane Kamensky masterfully untangles the web of principles and interests that... |
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