Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
by Caitlin Horrocks
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A "marvelous" (Wall Street Journal), "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) debut novel about love, family, genius, and the madness of art, circling the life of eccentric composer Erik Satie and La Belle Époque Paris
Erik Satie begins life with every possible advantage. But after the dual...
The Universal Tone
Bringing My Story to Light
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend
In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years...
Play On
Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
"After forty-six years of being on the road, this is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. This is the story of my life in rock and roll -- and how the band that has meant everything to me came to define me. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you."
Mick...
Lou Reed
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed
As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions...
Service
A Navy SEAL at War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him-and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today,...
Skeletons on the Zahara
A True Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.
The...
Ninth Street Women
Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth...
Love and Capital
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny...
Shoot for the Moon
The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." -Mike Collins, command module pilot,...
by Elizabeth Kostova
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed...
by Madeline Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).
In the house...
The Art of Invisibility
The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Be online without leaving a trace.
Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.
In this explosive yet practical book,...
Last Train to Memphis
The Rise of Elvis Presley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based...
Ghost of the Innocent Man
A True Story of Trial and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
One of the Best Books of 2017: National Public Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness
"Remarkable . . . Captivating . . . Rachlin is a skilled storyteller." --New York Times Book Review
"A gripping legal-thriller mystery . . . Profoundly elevates...