Henry: 2809 books
by Marla R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia
Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures...
Soundings
The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name.
Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist...
Polite Lies
On being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.
Queen of Fashion
What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France
Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have...
Something Wonderful
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and...
Brief Encounters
Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life
In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James...
How About Never--Is Never Good for You?
My Life in Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker
People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because...
by Paul Auster
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"That is where the story begins, in your body and everything will end in the body as well."
On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter Journal, his unorthodox, beautifully...
Gellhorn
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international...
Built of Books
How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books
This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who...
The Vanity Fair Diaries
1983 - 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary...
Giving Up the Ghost
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation...
Borrowed Finery
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deserved
Paula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers. Borrowed Finery, her first book in nearly...
by Paul Auster
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster...