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Louise Brown: My Life As The World's First Test-Tube Baby
Louise Brown · Bristol Books CIC
Pages: 198
Format: Print book
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At 11.47pm on July 25th 1978, Louise Brown was the first person ever to be born through science rather than as the result of two people having sex. The birth was hailed as a "miracle" by the world's media, making her instantly famous. For the first time Louise tells the story... |
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So Great a Prince
LAUREN JOHNSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and original portrait of the year the young Henry VIII assumes the throne, revealing a kingdom at a crossroads between two dynamic monarchs and two ages of history. England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers... |
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By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O'Neill
Arthur Gelb · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 896
Format: Print book
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Celebrated for their books on Eugene O'Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize-winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment... |
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Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir
Ron Perlman · Da Capo Press
Format: eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The candid, revealing, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of the Hellboy movies, Beauty and the Beast, and Sons of Anarchy |
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Ben Greenman · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related... |
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Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice
John A. Nagl · Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most important army officers of his generation, a memoir of the revolution in warfare he helped lead, in combat and in Washington When John Nagl was an army tank commander in the first Gulf War of 1991, fresh out of West Point and Oxford, he could already see that... |
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So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam
Karin Esterhammer · Prospect Park Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave L.A. to start over in a most unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat, keep... |
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Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl and Her Amazing Story of Healing
Christy Beam · Hachette Books
Pages: 215
Format: Print book
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"Miracles from Heaven is a powerful, healing story about family, love, faith, and hope. It amazed me and it will inspire readers everywhere. ---T. D. Jakes, bestselling author of Destiny In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter,... |
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Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Boris Friedewald · Prestel
Format: Hardcover
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This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments. Since the inception of photography as an art form nearly 200 years ago,... |
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
Anne Sebba · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs... |
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic... |
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir
Nadja Spiegelman · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A memoir of mothers and daughters - and mothers as daughters - traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers,... |
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