Levy: 696 books
The Castle on Sunset
Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
***LA Times Bestseller*
*An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick*
"Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed
"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair
"I want to live inside this book!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid
The...
Fruit of the Lemon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands.
Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the...
The Long Song
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
THE AUTHOR OF SMALL ISLAND TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA
Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" (San Francisco Chronicle). It won both the Orange Prize and...
by Marc Levy
Language: French
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 10, 2016
" Son meilleur livre ! Mortellement bien ! Il faut en acheter deux, l'un pour corner les pages, l'autre pour le conserver intact sur l'étagère. " - Le Parisien
" C'est une des intrigues les plus émouvantes de Marc Levy. Une jolie version 2.0 de la Belle au bois dormant, avec...
Hackers
Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated...
River of Darkness
Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of...
by Marv Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
When does the End Zone Justify the Means?The Los Angeles Leopards and the Portland Pioneers are on a collision course toward the Super Bowl Championship. One team is led by a take-no-prisoners head coach; the other by a cerebral, slow-and-steady coach who has been thrust into the spotlight because...
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
The Remarkable Life of FDR's Secretary of the Treasury
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
A fascinating exploration of politics from the Great Depression through World War II as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.
When the US stock market collapsed in 1929 and again when World War II broke out, the nation turned to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his secretary of the treasury,...
by Steven Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The creation of the Mac in 1984 catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business. Now veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms...
Love and Madness
The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In eighteenth-century England the aristocracy dominated the imagination, their exploits -- and misdeeds -- discussed, debated, and gossiped about in the salons and parlors of London. Now author Martin Levy vividly re-creates one of the most shocking and scandalous events of the period, in a riveting...
Frontier Figures
American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions...
Metamorphosis in Music
The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer György Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...
by Gideon Levy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents its continuing effects.
From 2005—the...
The First Emancipator
The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed...