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Pericles of Athens
Vincent Azoulay · Princeton University Press; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order... |
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Hendrix: The lllustrated Story
Gillian G Gaar · Voyageur Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Coinciding with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 75th year on this mortal coil, this (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career of the man most consider the greatest rock guitarist of all time.Hendrix enjoyed the international limelight... |
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Ted and I: A Brother's Memoir
Gerald Hughes · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anecdotal and immensely charming, Ted and I is a unique portrait of a shared childhood between Gerald Hughes and his younger brother Ted, one of the finest and best-loved poets of modern times. Teds love for Gerald was probably one of the most enduring and sustaining forces in his life.... |
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Conversations with Colum McCann
Earl G. Ingersoll (Editor) · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation... |
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How to Grow Up: A Memoir
Michelle Tea · Plume
Format: Print book
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A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as "impossible to put down" (People) As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; and she dated... |
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Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Jane Roberts · I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Julie Manet, the daughter of Édouard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on November 14 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries, and it is hardly... |
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The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic
Kendall Taylor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre has been celebrated as one of the greatest of the 20th century. From the beginning, their relationship was a tumultuous one, in which the couple's excesses were as widely known as their passion for each other. Despite their love, both... |
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
LESLIE SCHWARTZ · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer of the law.... |
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Two Mothers One Prayer: Facing Your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage
Laura Lane · Ulukau Publishing
Format: Print book
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TWO MOTHERS, ONE PRAYER brings us into the touching world of Childhood cancer. Told from the perspective of two caring mothers who share their intimate conversations as they care for their young daughters. Sharing what it takes to cope during such difficult times. You will be inspired and amazed... |
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Escape Artist: Memoir of a Visionary Artist on Death Row
William Noguera · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation's largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor's edge. In Escape Artist, he describes... |
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Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss
MARTHA COOLEY · CATAPULT
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality.... |
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Founding Fathers: The Fight for Freedom and the Birth of American Liberty
K. M. Kostyal · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution--and changed the world. The eras dramatic events, from the riotous streets in Boston to the unlikely victory at Saratoga, are punctuated... |
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Benedict Cumberbatch: The Biography
Nigel Goodall · Carlton Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive biography of the star of Sherlock who is rapidly becoming a household name Benedict Cumberbatch is an award-winning actor with a bright future. His portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and a role as the main antagonist in Star Trek Into Darkness have made him one of the biggest... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished... |
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