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King of Clubs: The era of flamboyant gambling casinos
Frank Monastra · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 491
Format: Paperback
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"King of Clubs" is a profile of some of the most popular and famous illegal casinos that thrived and flourished in and around Cleveland, Ohio area during the 1930's until their demise in late 1940's. The casinos offered what the citizens of the rural towns wanted; poker,... |
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Chasing Light: Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer
TEN SPEED PRESS. · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama - many never before seen - coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format. Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First... |
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir
ALICE ANDERSON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is a deeply poignant memoir set in a post-Katrina Mississippi. Alice Anderson is returning to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home that she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, and their... |
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Donna Seaman · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized... |
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Long Way Back
Charley Boorman · Aa Publishing
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover
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This biography details motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman's recovery from a major road traffic accident in 2016. On February 16 2016, motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffered a major road traffic accident in Portugal. Having spent the better part of his life on some form of motorbike,... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's... |
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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
JOHN HODGMAN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: eBook
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Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John... |
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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Holly FitzGerald · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride - the wildest - down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles... |
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Murder in the City: New York, 1910-1920
WILFRED KAUTE · ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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When night falls on New York, the shadows are everywhere and death wears many faces. How the victims leave their bodies is deeply personal, but the witnesses to their death and the factors that brought it about belong to the public world -- a somber world which is encapsulated in this gruesome... |
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So Let It Be Written: The Biography of Metallica's James Hetfield
MARK EGLINTON · LESSER GODS
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Metallica is back with their first album in almost a decade!With James Hetfield at the helm, Metallica went from being thrash pioneers to heavy metal gods. He overcame adolescent upheaval and personal demons - including his parents' divorce, his mother's untimely death and severe alcoholism... |
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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Jed Perl · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
Bridget Quinn · Chronicle Books
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover
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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female... |
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