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Lo que yo vi [What I Saw]
Laura Esquivel - Penguin Random House Audio
Format: Paperback
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Memorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo ido y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del tiempo presente.Desde la casa donde nació, los juegos de calle durante su niñez, la musica que ha servido como banda sonora de su vida hasta los movimientos sociales... |
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved... |
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The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966
Clinton Heylin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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When it was announced, nearly two years ago, that the pre-Nobel Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the astonishing sum of $22 million, the shock was palpable. Initially, one almost wondered if this was the pop culture equivalent... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton - Alfred A Knopf
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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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius
Bob Batchelor - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the 'Roaring Twenties' look like the 'Boring Twenties' in comparison. It's all here: murder, mayhem - and high-priced hootch." - David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents "An aggressive, ambitious... |
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Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
Liz Pryor - Random House
Format: Print book
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For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through... |
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Anthem: Rush in the 1970s
Martin Popoff - ECW Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the '70s is a detailed portrait of Canada's greatest... |
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Killings
Calvin Trillin - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden."... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg - Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child -- a girl temporarily... |
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books "The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." -- Paula Hawkins,... |
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