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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Lesley M M Blume · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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The making of Ernest Hemingway's"The Sun Also Rises, " the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town s infamous... |
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Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs
Neil Leifer · University of Texas Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his pictures have regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, and, most often, Sports Illustrated and Time, and his photographs... |
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My Father Bleeds History (Maus)
Art Spiegelman
Format: Paperback
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A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. |
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Hank : the short life and long country road of hank williams
Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father.After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic... |
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Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
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The Brass Wall: The Betrayal of Undercover Detective #4126
David Kocieniewski · Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Serpico and Prince of the City, a brilliantly reported true story of power and betrayal in the NYPD set against the worlds of the Mafia and big-city politicsIn 1993, Vincent Armanti, Undercover Detective #4126, agreed to infiltrate the branch of the Lucchese family responsible... |
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Carry on.
Lisa Fenn · Harperwave
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer's unexpected relationship with two disabled wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds - blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family - would... |
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Patricia Williams · Dey Street Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkably bold and inspiring story of crime, motherhood, and redemption - not since Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake has there been a memoir this unforgettable.You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black, and female? Ask any girl from any 'hood. You want to know what... |
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83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson
Matt Richards · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson -- the biggest and most influential music... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about... |
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