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Coco Chanel
An Intimate Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon.
Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional journey-from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour- helped...
Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis
A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
The secret histories of the worlds most famous masterpieces
Caravaggios, Rembrandts, Monets-the works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are priceless masterpieces whose beauty, artistry, and emotional impact have inspired admiration, awe, and...
Forever Liesl
A Memoir of The Sound of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
The magic of The Sound of Music lives on in the minds and hearts of everyone it has touched. Now, Charmian Carr, who in 1965 captivated moviegoers as Liesl "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" von Trapp, tells what it was like to be a part of the film that has become a cultural phenomenon. It's...
Life at the Marmont
The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers, musicians,...
Emilie Du Chatelet
Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind
Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du...
The Lost Men
The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
Sir Ernest Shackletons 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica...
River Run Red
The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day,...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
From the author of Men Explain Things to Me, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy – a fitting companion to Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise...
Garlic and Sapphires
The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the...
by Matt Haig
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Matt Haig’s accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.
**From the author of How To Stop Time, coming February 2018 from Viking.
"Destined to become a modern classic." —Entertainment Weekly**
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The Pigeon Tunnel
Stories from My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**“Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur — by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carré, the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy...
A Rope and a Prayer
The Story of a Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him.
Invited to an interview by a Taliban commander, New York Times reporter David Rohde and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped in November 2008 and spirited to the...
by Mary Karr
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl...
Careless People
Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Kirkus (STARRED review)
"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”
The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from...