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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
BECKY AIKMAN · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, having just outrun the police in a car chase and locked an officer in the trunk of his own car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw... |
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Olivier
Philip Ziegler · MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover
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A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered... |
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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Jen Lin-Liu · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked... |
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The Food and Wine of France: Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
Edward Behr · Penguin Press
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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A beautiful and deeply researched investigation into French cuisine, from the founding editor of The Art of Eating and author of 50 Foods.In THE FOOD AND WINE OF FRANCE, the influential food writer Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence.... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Laura Claridge · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became... |
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Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin
David Kaufman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make... |
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Marc N Peyser · Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Pages: 332
Format: Print book
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A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter... |
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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic installment in the lives of the Kennedys - including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master... |
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Gaiutra Bahadur · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
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In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"--- the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many of the indentured, disappeared... |
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Myra MacPherson · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 401
Format: Print book
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A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before?In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from... |
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