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Early 20th Century Opera Singers: Their Voices and Recordings from 1900-1949
Nicholas E Limansky · YBK Publishers
Pages: 298
Format: Print book
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Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits of analyzing... |
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The Fixer: The Notorious Life of a Front-Page Bail Bondsman
Ira Judelson · Touchstone; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.With... |
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Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
Abigail Santamaria · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 413
Format: Print book
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"The first full biography of Joy Davidman, known primarily as C.S. Lewis's late-in-life bride, but who here receives her much deserved rescue from that shadow"-- |
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Hi, Anxiety: Life With a Bad Case of Nerves
Kat Kinsman · Dey Street Books
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
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Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can't sleep because your brain won't stop recycling thoughts? Unable... |
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Letters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef
Reʼuven Ben-Yosef · Syracuse University Press
Pages: 178
Format: Print book
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Reuven Ben-Yosef (1937-2001) was born Robert Eliot Reiss to an assimilated Jewish family in New York. He switched from writing English poetry to Hebrew poetry after his immigration to Israel in 1959. He is the author of more than a dozen volumes of superb Hebrew poetry, as well as two collections... |
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Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
Robert Matzen · Paladin Communications
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This fresh look at Hollywoods Queen of Screwball, Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a Nevada mountain in 1942. It also provides a day-by-day account of the struggles of Lombards husband,... |
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The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
Rafia Zakaria · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country's former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been... |
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Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Richard M Cohen · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening... |
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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Sands Hall · Counterpoint
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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"I could not put down this book -- it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." -- Karen E. Bender, author of Refund In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Angelic Music: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica
Corey Mead · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A jewel of musical history - the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica - including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others) ; Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline... |
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