Stephen: 10786 books
Debussy
A Painter in Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A beautifully written and original biography of one of the greatest and most popular of modern composers--which also deeply investigates his much-loved music.
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of...
PAINTING SNAILS
A Rock & Roll Doctor's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Stephen John Hartley left school having failed all his exams - he didn't care. He had better things to do. He was guitarist in iconic UK punk band NOTSENSIBLES - they recorded four singles, an album and a John Peel session.
The North UK had its own separate punk identify imbued with a DIY ethos...
Stravinsky
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh’s magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate,...
by Stephen Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's...
JOHNNY CASH
Une icone américaine
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Depuis ses enregistrements légendaires chez Sun Records dans les années 1950 jusqu'à ses derniers albums devenus des classiques, Johnny Cash a toujours été LA voix country du rock.L'histoire fascinante de cette icône américaine commence avec Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis et Elvis Presley, pour...
by Stephen Michael Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
As a teenage actress in 1920s Austria, performing on the stage and in film in light comedies and musicals, Hedy Kiesler, with her exotic beauty, was heralded across Europe by her mentor, Max Reinhardt. However,...
Moab Is My Washpot
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
This international bestseller is an “enormously entertaining” boyhood memoir by the British actor and comedian (The New York Times).
Since his PBS television debut in Blackadder, multitalented writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry has earned many fans with his idiosyncratic wit. In this...
The Audacity of Inez Burns
Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA’S GOLDEN CITY—SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose....
The Grandees
America's Sephardic Elite
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New World’s earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota.
In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of...
Lincoln's Lieutenants
The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac
“A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work...
My Bloody Efforts
Life as a Rating in the Modern Royal Navy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
In May 2000 the British nuclear hunter-killer submarine HMS Tireless limped into Gibraltar using emergency propulsion and with her nuclear reactor shut down. Days earlier, while traversing the Straits of Sicily the crew had discovered a crack in one of the nuclear reactor pipes, requiring the immediate...
Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack WomerRanger and Paratrooper
From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle’s Nest
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division (and the inspiration for the movie The Dirty Dozen).In this long awaited work one of the squads integral membersand probably its best soldierreveals...
A Prairie Girl's Faith
The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The first in-depth look at the spiritual path of legendary storyteller Laura Ingalls Wilder.
With her extraordinary God-given pluck, the creator of the epic Little House series survived the harshness of frontier life—from the heartbreak of sudden crop losses to murderous storms to unrelenting...
by Stephen Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, Newsday
Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's),...