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Mozart: The Reign of Love
Jan Swafford · Harper
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart's singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated... |
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The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'... |
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book. - Elizabeth GilbertAn intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances... |
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It's Never Too Late: Make the Next Act of Your Life the Best Act of Your Life
Kathie Lee Gifford · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Former Today show host Kathie Lee Gifford offers her personal story along with insights, wisdom, and inspiration for those women who are facing their own life changes.What's holding you back from pursuing what truly matters to you and fulfilling your dreams?After Kathie Lee Gifford... |
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo · Seal Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of American history-from the post-Reconstruction... |
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Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music and Fame
Lisa Robinson · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians -- and their challenges with fame -- from a legendary music journalistOver four decades, Lisa Robinson has made a name for herself as a celebrated journalist in a business long known for its boys' club mentality.... |
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What Becomes a Legend Most: The Biography of Richard Avedon
Philip Gefter · Harper
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.Richard Avedon photographed the most iconic figures of the twentieth century in a starkly bold, intimately minimal, and rigorously forensic... |
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Conjure
Rae Armantrout
Format: Hardcover
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Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure is matched by dread; fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic... |
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Format: Hardcover
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The first volume, in a hardcover edition for libraries, of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend... |
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That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life
Garrison Keillor
Format: Hardcover
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In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks,... |
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The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star
Lesley-Ann Jones · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon's life, Lesley-Ann Jones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in self-imposed exile in New York - where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day forty years ago.Late... |
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HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style
Elizabeth Holmes · Celadon Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are global style icons, their every fashion choice chronicled and celebrated. With all eyes on them, the duchesses select clothes that send a message about their values, interests, and priorities. Their thoughtful sartorial strategies follow in the footsteps... |
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Ed Caesar
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a plane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person... |
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Kenya Hunt · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother, and a global citizen in today's ever-changing... |
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