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A Backward Glance: An Autobiogra...
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoirWith richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York ...
The Chosen Chaim potok
A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers ISBN10: 0671136747 ISBN13: 9780671136741 Material Type: hardcover
If I Can Dream: Elvis Own Story ...
A longtime confidante of Elvis Presley reveals intimate details of the legendary performers dreams and disillusionments, showing his disintegration due to drugs and the harm he inflicted on himself...
Drama High: The Incredible True ...
Friday Night Lights meets Gleethe incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a townWhy would the multimillionaire pr...
Bill Evans: Everything Happens t...
A Grammy winner and pioneer of multitrack jazz recording, Bill Evans was the pianist on Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue album and a key figure in the development of modern jazz piano This new Back...
A Life of Contrasts: The Autobio...
At the outbreak of WWII, Diana Mosley, the Mitford sister who grew up with the Churchills, was imprisoned after her husband, the British Fascist Leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, was arrested under the or...
Gullibles Travels: The Adventure...
Fans of Cash Peters Bad Taste Tours on public radio will hail this outrageously funny collection of essays about his experiences traveling to and reporting on the most bizarre and tacky tourist att...
Angelas Ashes The Frank McCourt ...
Angelas Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourts astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classicWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I mana...
This Just In: What I Couldnt Tel...
A CBS News broadcast journalist traces his long and distinguished career and shares behindthescenes information about key historical and political events of the past four decades as based on new in...
Picasso and Dora: A Personal Mem...
As a young soldier at the end of World War II, Lord achieved his ambition of meeting Picasso This elegantly written memoir recounts his subsequent intense and enduring relationship with the artist ...
Giving Up: The Last Days of Sylv...
Giving Up is Jillian Beckers intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poets life Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia foun...
Ken Burnss America Edgerton, G
This is the first booklength study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producerdirector as a television auteur, a pivotal programming influence within the industry, and a po...
Homecoming Gaither, Bill and Jen...
A contemporary gospel artist traces the history of gospel music from the 1930s to today, as told through the personal stories of its pioneers, including The Happy Goodmans, Jake Hess, The Speer Fam...
The Image Makers: Sixty Years of...
Photographs of Hollywoods most popular idols reveal the skills of the industrys portrait photographers as well as changing trends in glamour ISBN10: 0070651388 ISBN13: 9780070651388 Material Type:...
Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel ...
It is Johnsons gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we wouldrecognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes Washington Post Book World on Heroes...
Southern Daughter: The Life of M...
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind ISBN10: 0060975016 ISBN13: 9780060975012 Material Type: paperback
My First Cousin Once Removed: Mo...
The art of being truly funny is an undervalued one in these angstridden times, but it is an ability that acclaimed novelist Sarah Payne Stuart has in abundance Her talents have never been on more g...
Mozart: The Golden Years 1781179...
Telling the story with wit, verve, and a fine eye for the byways of Viennese societywill draw readers into Mozarts personality and attract them to the eternally ambiguous musicThe ObserverThe last ...
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Rememb...
Book by Ford, Ford Madox - ISBN10: 0880011769 ISBN13: 9780880011761 Material Type: paperback
Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell ...
Traces the life of the Hollywood actress, describes how she was pushed to succeed by her mother, and looks at the studio system in which she worked - ISBN10: 0806123273 ISBN13: 9780806123271 Materi...
Mishima: A Vision of the Void Yo...
Text: English, French translation ISBN10: 0374210330 ISBN13: 9780374210335 Material Type: hardcover
American Sucker Denby, David
The author of Great Books presents a candid memoir of money, desire, greed, and love as he describes his divorce, its effects on his life, and his irrational plunge into the stock market madness of...
Strindberg: Painter and Photogra...
The literary works of August Strindberg are admired throughout the world, but few people outside his native Scandinavia are aware of his accomplishments as a painter and photographer This book, wri...
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