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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Miles Unger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 513
Format: Print book
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A brilliant and ruthless statesman, Lorenzo de' Medici's dexterous wielding of power helped nurture the Italian Renaissance. A statesman, scholar, poet and philosopher, Lorenzo was a generous and discerning patron to many of the most creative minds of this most creative age. But despite... |
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John Adams: Party of One
James Grant · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president.John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing the right... |
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Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King
Penny Junor · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive, in-depth portrait of the man who will be king of England-and the story of his relationship with the woman who will be his queen. His face is recognized the world over, his story is well known. But what is Prince William really like? As Diana's eldest... |
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Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
William J. Mann · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the imageOnscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine... |
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
John Ferling · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation’s history. The decade of the 1790s has been called... |
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How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers: Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed-Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles
Ruthann Godollei · Voyageur Press; First edition
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Whether your band is just starting out or touring the nation, here's how you can build its identity by making your own unique gig posters, custom T-shirts, album covers, record sleeves, and stickers. Fans want cool and creative band merchandise, and this book gives you the tools and information... |
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Annejet van der Zijl · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small... |
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Anderson Cooper · Harper; First Edition edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a rare up-close... |
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Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
Catherine Goldhammer · Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir Catherine Goldhammer newly separated along with her twelve-year-old daughter starts life anew in a cottage by the sea in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons... |
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Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Howard Sounes · Da Capo Press; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Howard Sounes, the bestselling author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most famous, talented - and wealthiest - men alive: Paul McCartney.Fab is the first... |
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