Review imprint: 1779 books
by Sasha Abramsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam,...
Women of Privilege
100 Years of Love & Loss in a Family of the Hudson River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history.
Yesterday Once More
The Carpenters Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this compendium collects more than 50 articles, interviews,...
Off the Beaten Page
The Best Trips for Lit Lovers, Book Clubs, and Girls on Getaways
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Blending literature and travel, this book offers a look at 15 U.S. destinations featured in the works of famous writers. Designed as a guide to help avid bibliophiles experience, in person, the places they’ve only read about, award-winning journalist Terri Peterson Smith takes readers on lively...
Leonardo da Vinci for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The marriage of art and science is celebrated in this beautifully illustrated four-color biography and activity book. Kids will begin to understand the important discoveries that da Vinci made through inspiring activities like determining the launch angle of a catapult, sketching birds and other animals,...
High Voltage
The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC's Last Man Standing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Angus Young, the founder and the last original member of AC/DC still in the band, has for more than forty years been the face, sound, and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band. In his trademark schoolboy outfit, guitar in hand, Angus has applied his signature style to songs...
The Funniest One in the Room
The Lives and Legends of Del Close
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Containing recollections from more than 80 of the comedic giant’s closest friends and colleagues, this absorbing biography explores Del Close's old haunts, his sensational past, and the reality behind the tales he told so often. From traveling with a carnival and hanging out with a pre-Scientology...
Showstoppers!
The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When Robert Preston shouted "Ya got trouble!" in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with "Hello, Dolly!," when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade in Funny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. Showstoppers!...
Henry Ford for Kids
His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
An in-depth and realistic portrait of the man who "put America on wheels" Detailing Henry Ford's childhood as a precocious farm-boy mechanic, his revolutionary labor and production ideas, and the lasting legacy of his widespread philanthropy, author Ronald A. Reis also does not shy away...
Michael and Me
The Untold Story of Michael Jackson's Secret Romance
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
More than six years after his death, Michael Jackson continues to fascinate the world. Shana Mangatal was one of Jackson's only constant and true rocks of stability for nearly two decades. Their relationship was quiet and sweet and real—a closely guarded secret, known only to a few trusted employees...
Dylan on Dylan
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even answered listeners'...
by Henri Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.
Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning...
The Upset
Jack Fleck's Incredible Victory over Ben Hogan at the U.S. Open
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Al Barkow, golf’s leading historian and story-teller, unfolds the improbable Ben HoganJack Fleck tale, and the results are as wondrous as the golf itself.” --Peter Kessler Jack Fleck had the slimmest of resumes as a professional tournament golfer. He had never even come close to winning...
The Man Who Sold America
The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
We live in an age of persuasion. Leaders and institutions of every kind--public and private, large and small--must compete in the marketplace of images and messages. This has been true since the advent of mass media, from broad circulation magazines and radio through the age of television and the...