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by Joan Benavent
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Seis arquetipos de mujer, entre el estrellato de Hollywood de los años de oro y el nacimiento del Star System, abarcando otras luminarias que sobrevivieron al estrellato en las décadas posteriores. Un popurrí variopinto y apasionante de glorias y ocasos dramáticos.
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Gespräche aus vierzig Jahren
Language: German
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Dieser Band versammelt die besten Gespräche der "Schriftstellerin und Ikone" (The New Yorker) aus vier Jahrzehnten. Joan Didion erzählt von ihrer Kindheit in Sacramento, ihrer Studienzeit in Berkeley, den Jahren in New York und Los Angeles. Sie denkt nach über ihre Ehe mit dem Schriftsteller...
She Begat This
20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
An NPR 2018 Great Read
Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the acclaimed and influential debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with this eye-opening and moving exploration of Lauryn Hill and her remarkable artistic legacy.
Released in 1998, Lauryn Hill’s first solo album is...
And A Voice to Sing With
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
• The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez’s perspective, but supported by a rich performance and historical archive, the documentary centers on her...
Curly
An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
While the Three Stooges were the longest active and most productive comedy team in Hollywood, their artistic height coincided with the years Curly was with them, and this is his definitive biography. From 1932 to 1946 Curly was the zaniest of the Stooges, becoming famous for his high-pitched voice,...
by Joan Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
From “Grand Hotel” to “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,” Joan Crawford played some of the finest parts Hollywood had to offer, establishing a reputation as the most spectacular diva on the silver screen. Even when the cameras quit rolling, her life never stopped being over-the-top. In My Way...
South and West
From a Notebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard...
The Death of Ben Linder
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In...
Alger Hiss: Framed
A New Look at the Case that Made Nixon Famous
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A clear-eyed investigation into what is probably the biggest, longest cover-up in American history.
As a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Richard Nixon led the investigations that first drew attention to Alger Hiss and his purported ties to the Soviet regime. These investigations...
U. S. Grant
American Hero, American Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency...
My Life, Deleted
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
My Life, Deleted—part love story, part medical mystery, and part inspirational memoir—is the true story of Scott Bolzan, the 46-year-old former pro football offensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns who suffered permanent amnesia after a tragic accident.
Co-written with his wife Joan Bolzan,...
American Original
The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justice
If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life...
Breaking In
The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
"I knew she'd be trouble."
So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but...
Deliverance from the Little Big Horn
Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of...