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by Tara Murtha
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe†? knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love†? off the top of the charts,...
Waves Passing in the Night
Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.
For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the...
Memphis Rent Party
The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right." --Keith Richards
"An emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you." --Elvis Costello
"Robert...
Torment Saint
The Life of Elliott Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Elliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the '90s, adored by fans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies.The sadness had its sources in the life.There was trauma from an early age, years of drug abuse, and a chronic sense of disconnection that sometimes seemed self-engineered.Smith...
by Darran Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero....
Starting At Zero
His Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him forever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely private...
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...