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Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
Anne de Courcy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century.The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling... |
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The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony
Adam Platt
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food criticsAs the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn't have the chance to become a picky eater. Living,... |
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Jerry Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings,... |
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The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait
Linda Solomon · Wayne State University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"Aretha was private. I respected this and she trusted me." Linda Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was just beginning her career as a photojournalist and newspaper columnist. Franklin's brother and business manager arranged for Solomon to capture the singer's... |
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Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career
Daryl W. Palmer
Format: Hardcover
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From the girl in Red Cloud who oversaw the construction of a miniature town called Sandy Point in her backyard, to the New Woman on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse in Lincoln newspapers, to the aspiring novelist in New York City, committed to creation and career,... |
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Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
Christina Lane · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping both her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock's confidante and one of the Oscar-nominated... |
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The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
Justus Rosenberg · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard... |
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Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
Eilene Zimmerman · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's descent into drug addiction while trying to rebuild a life for her family, taking readers on an intimate journey into the world of white-collar drug abuse."A rare combination of journalistic rigor, personal... |
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Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
David G. Marwell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided... |
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