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by Michka Assayas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
**For the first time ever, Bono--the biggest rock star in the world--tells his life story. **
In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
“All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from Songbook
A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling...
The Entertainer
Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot’s career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left...
There Goes Gravity
A Life in Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.
Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,...
Creativity
The Perfect Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist’s Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible.
Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost to the demands...
The Stars in Our Eyes
The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important.
“When I was young I was convinced celebrities could save me,” Julie Klam admits in The Stars in...
by Ann Marie Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.
Who was Long Tack Sam?
He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur....
The Wind in the Reeds
A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
**2016 Christopher Award Winner
From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art.**
On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's...
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.
Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in...
The Beneficiary
Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
**"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker
A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class,...
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
The Junior Officers' Reading Club
Killing Time and Fighting Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp...
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq.
John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester...
Frank
The True Story That Inspired the Movie
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test comes a characteristically humorous story of a musician on the margins. In Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie, Jon Ronson reflects on his days playing keyboard for the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank Sidebottom, best known for...