Carolyn Burke: 10 books
Lee Miller
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
A trenchant yet sympathetic portrait of Lee Miller, one of the iconic faces and careers of the twentieth century. Carolyn Burke reveals Miller as a multifaceted woman: both model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and mother, and, in later years, gourmet cook—the last of the...
No Regrets
The Life of Edith Piaf
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Sympathetic . . . captivating . . . highly effective.” -Graham Robb, New York Review of Books Concise and gracefully written. . . . Burke surveys all [Piaf’s] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.” -James Gavin, New York Times Book Review The iconic French singer comes to life in...
Becoming Modern
The Life of Mina Loy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1996
The poet and visual artist Mina Loy has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism—in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's...
Foursome
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art.
New York, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz, the...
by Carolyn Burke
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf’s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career.
Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan, and a working-class Paris...
Bound by Mystery
Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados--Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Beautiful Mercy
Experiencing God’s Unconditional Love So We Can Share It With Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Giving and receiving mercy is central to living a life of passion and is central to living the life God calls us to. We all need mercy at different times in our lives, and we all have an obligation to give mercy to others at different times in our lives. If you think about it, God’s mercy is overwhelmingly...
Southern Women Playwrights
New Essays in History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
by Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan, visiting fellow Paul Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing...