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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen of the Middle Ages
Desmond Seward · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of an ambitious princess, heiress, and ruler, Eleanor of Aquitaine captures the character of this archetypal medieval queen in all of her beauty and political intrigue“A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth,” as Shakespeare referred to this powerful... |
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Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
Joyce Scott · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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The remarkable story of "outsider" artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sisterFrom birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what... |
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The Gunfighters: How the West Was Won
Bruce Wexler · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Of all the wild characters of the Western frontier, gunfighters were certainly the most feared and the most legendary. Was it their bizarre moral code, their charisma, their temper, or their precise marksmanship that made them so memorable? They were not simply violent, for in the Wild... |
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They're playing our song : a memoir
Carole Bayer Sager · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical... |
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Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
EILEEN RIVERS · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of three women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men in Afghanistan and worked with local women to restore their lives and village communitiesThey marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired M16s out of the windows of military vehicles,... |
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The Incredible True Story of Blondy Baruti: My Unlikely Journey from the Congo to Hollywood
Blondy Baruti · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The inspirational and true rags-to-riches story of how one young boy made it from the war-torn Congolese jungles to America and onto the silver screen, all the while facing extraordinary trials and twists of fate with an unwavering faith and unflagging spirit.Blondy Baruti's boyhood in the Democratic... |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)... |
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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 active... |
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Liar: A Memoir
Rob Roberge · Crown Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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A darkly funny, intense memoir about mental illness, memory and storytelling, from an acclaimed novelist. When Rob Roberge learns that he's likely to have developed a progressive memory-eroding disease from years of hard living and frequent concussions, he is terrified by the prospect of becoming... |
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Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
Anna R Beer · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback
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Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.Great composers all, but their musical legacy is still rarely acknowledged.Since the birth of classical music, those women who dared to compose... |
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
MICHAEL CHABON · Harper
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".For the September 2016... |
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Annie Cohen-Solal · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American... |
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True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former... |
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