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American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton
Joan Barthel · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father... |
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This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
Blair Jackson · Flatiron Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices... |
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Jeffrey Toobin · Doubleday
Pages: 371
Format: Print book
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From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress... |
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Wendy Gamber · Ohns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob's face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound.... |
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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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Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters
Judy Garland · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 456
Format: Print book
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Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend's abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio... |
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Steely Dan: Reelin' in the Years
Brian Sweet · Omnibus Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed (and only!) biography of one of rock's most elusive mega-bands, newly updatedThe only book ever to have been published on Steely Dan, Reelin' in the Years tells the strange tale of how Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, two cynical New York jazz fans, wormed their way into... |
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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN · BALLANTINE
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly... |
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When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · Random House
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth... |
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Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Frances Wilson · Farrar
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the RomanticsThomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth,... |
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