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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the French revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
by Theodore Kazimiroff
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace.
By the 1840s,...
Dork Whore
My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity.
Dork Whore is a fresh and...
Root and Branch
Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch...
My Country
A Syrian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story-a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni.
On August 21,...
Richard III
A Ruler and his Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For many, Richard III is an obsession-the Richard III Society has a huge membership, and Shakespeare's Histories have contributed to, if not his popularity, certainly his notoriety. Now, with the discovery of Richard III's bones under a parking lot in Leicester, England, interest in this divisive...
Mathew Brady
Portraits of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the "father of American photography.†?
Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical masteryhelped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s...
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy
From Power to Protest After JFK
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since.
On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Music, Memory and Memoir provides a unique look at the contemporary cultural phenomenon of the music memoir and, leading from this, the way that music is used to construct memory. Via analyses of memoirs that consider punk and pop, indie and dance, this text examines the nature of memory for musicians...
by Phillip Crandall
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
"It's Time To Party," the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line - nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears - repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a quarter-note countdown. A faint, swirling effect intensifies...
Instrumental
A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw, urgent energy.†? --Zoe Williams, Guardian
"Thrilling and harrowing . . . Unsurpassed and unsurpassable.†? --Sunday Times
James Rhodes's passion for music has been his lifeline--the thread that has held...
Nick Drake
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Nick Drake was barely 26 years old when he died in 1974. The British singer-songwriter made only three albums during his short life time: "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Layer" and "Pink Moon". All are now recognized as classics.;Since his death, Nick has been cited as a...
The Story of Charlotte's Web
E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as...