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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
Neil Gaiman · William Morrow
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell."The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." - Neil GaimanDrawn... |
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My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
Tia Torres · William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster... |
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
Gary Sinise · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's... |
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I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Gabriel García Márquez · Vintage
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Available in English for the first time in the U.S., a collection of the speeches of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez.Throughout his life, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion... |
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Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Michael Chabon · HarperLuxe
Pages: 272
Format: Large Print
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A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon - "one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)... |
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Samantha Seiple · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's... |
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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
David Thomson · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire.Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction... |
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The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Maryann Erigha · NYU Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre... |
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Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
Geoff Edgers · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,... |
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Playing Back the 80s: A Decade of Unstoppable Hits
Jim Beviglia · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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The music of the 1980s left an indelible mark on pop culture. Thanks to the dawn of MTV and the increasing affordability of synthesizers, a generation of innovative artists took the world by storm to create one of the last great glory eras of pop music.To get to the heart of what made this... |
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