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The Paper Garden
An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. It was the summer of 1772, in England. During the next ten years she completed nearly a...
My Judy Garland Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring, and at times disturbing her. In this unique book Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero-worship, examining our understanding of rescue, consolation, love, grief, and fame through...
Hitch
The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. John Russell Taylor, a distinguished...
The Librettist of Venice
The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte--Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impre
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of...
Marilyn
The Passion and the Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized-much less attempted to analyze-most...
Mad Enchantment
Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous....
Family of Secrets
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments."-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in Power
How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps...
The Ascent of George Washington
The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling...
Galileo's Daughter
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's...
Cochrane
The Real Master and Commander
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile,...
The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
"Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner
Prominent military historian...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.
It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent...
My Wounded Heart
Life of Lilli Jahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
An international sensation already sold in fifteen languages, this heartbreaking collection of recently discovered letters captures the destruction not only of a life but also of an entire nation.
Born in 1900 to wealthy Jewish parents, Lilli Jahn stood firmly among the German bourgeoisie. A doctor...
Résistance
A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter,...