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Ode to Color
The Ten Essential Palettes for Living and Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Internationally renowned textile designer Lori Weitzner presents a novel, layered perspective on the use and significance of color in design and culture in this spectacular treasury illustrated with 225 full-color images.
Ode to Color, a stunning anthology by renowned and award-winning textile...
Hound of the Sea
Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth.
Garrett McNamara—affectionately known as GMac—set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot...
by Luca Dotti, Ludovica Damiani, Sciascia Gambaccini
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Assembled by Audrey Hepburn's son Luca Dotti, Audrey in Rome is an intimate collection of almost two hundred candid photographs of the beloved actress and much-imitated style icon during the twenty-year period she made Rome her home.
A private album of rare snapshots—many never published...
City Squares
Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history of some of the world’s most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by illustrations from equally distinguished photographers.
Over...
Impressions of Paris
An Artist's Sketchbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Artist Cat Seto, founder of the acclaimed Ferme à Papier brand, introduces you to the City of Light as never before in this distinctive volume—both a visual feast and celebration of the artistic process—filled with lavish illustrations and descriptive meditations that capture the quotidian pleasures...
Dad
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old...
Drama
An Actor's Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
"A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances."
—Steve Martin
Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in Drama—an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one...
Back Then
Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Novelist Anne Bernays and biographer Justin Kaplan -- both native New Yorkers -- came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Written in two separate voices, Back Then is thecandid, anecdotal account of these two children of privilege...
I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag
A Memoir of Life Through Events, the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag is a warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinators.
With her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune...
Call Me Debbie
True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Internationally beloved opera star Deborah Voigt recounts her harrowing and ultimately successful private battles to overcome the addictions and self-destructive tendencies that nearly destroyed her life.
Call Me Debbie is one of the most electrifying performances of Deborah Voigt’s life....
Literary Rogues
A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.
Literary Rogues is a wildly funny and illuminating...
Young Orson
The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“A remarkable, eye-opening biography . . . McGilligan’s Orson is a Welles for a new generation, [a portrait] in tune with Patti Smith’s Just Kids.”—A. S. Hamrah, Bookforum
No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. At the age of sixteen,...
by Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Published to commemorate its 75th anniversary, The World Is Round brings back into print the classic story created by Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd.
Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical...
Tribal
College Football and the Secret Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans’ most popular sport, offering a visceral and often funny analysis of its tribal thrills and deep contradictions.
Florida...