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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendIn 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's... |
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Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
Kevin Roose · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well... |
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Trump Talk: Donald Trump in His Own Words
George W Beahm · Adams Media, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Everyone's fascinated by Donald Trump! Brash, outspoken, and successful, Donald Trump is an American phenomenon. Always a controversial business leader, he's now become a major political figure, and he continues to make headlines around the globe. Even if you don't follow politics,... |
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
Sabeeha Rehman · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today.Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United... |
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Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
Laura Bates · Sourcebooks
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback
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"A powerful testament to how Shakespeare continues to speak to contemporary readers in all sorts of circumstances." - Booklist "The work that Laura Bates has been doing for years with prison inmates and Shakespeare is of extraordinary importance. It has a kind of beauty and symmetry... |
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell Stevens · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way.... |
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Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side
Tyler Henry · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far."Dying doesn't mean having to say goodbye." Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating... |
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My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice
Brad Herzog · Why Not Books
Format: Hardcover
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Carolyn Goodman's life was punctuated by tragedy, including a brother's premature death, childhood molestation, a father's suicide, and a son's infamous murder. But hers is foremost a tale of survival, of turning personal anguish into social conscience. When her twenty-year-old... |
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The sea is my brother
Jack Kerouac; Dawn Ward · Da Capo Pr.
Format: book_printbook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer · Bantam
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country... |
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