Hachette Books: 1744 books
by Ann Powers, Daphne Carr
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone...
Seven Deadly Sins
Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor's New York Times bestselling treatise on sin and the nature of it
For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor knows how to sin. As a small-town...
Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Crosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Woodstock," "Teach Your Children."
This copiously illustrated account of the trio's personal and musical history...
Leonardo's Legacy
How Da Vinci Reimagined the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach-a...
by Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Allen Ginsberg (19261997) was one of twentieth-century literature's most prolific letter-writers. This definitive volume showcases his correspondence with some of the most original and interesting artists of his time, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lionel...
The A List
The National Society Of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays-most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics....
American Witness
The Art and Life of Robert Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book The Americans.
As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank...
Variety's ""The Movie That Changed My Life""
120 Celebrities Pick the Films that Made a Difference (for Better or Worse)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In recent years, the editors of Variety have posed the same question to hundreds of famous personalities: What is the movie that changed your life?” Gathered here for the first time are the responses of movie stars and comedians, politicians and war correspondents, athletes and business magnates,...
Rough Magic
A Biography Of Sylvia Path
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.
Heart of the City
Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
“The couples in this book hail from across America and the world. Most don’t live in New York City. Some never did. What mattered to me was that they met there, in one of its iconic public places. Each of the nine stories begins just before that chance meeting—when they are strangers, oblivious...
Juggalo
Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of the Insane Clown Posse, their friends and family, and numerous devoted fans, Juggalo explores the...
Bad Dogs Have More Fun
Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an unforgettable collection of more than seventy-five newspaper articles from The Philadelphia Inquirer written by former columnist John Grogan. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in....
Top of the Order
25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
There have been many anthologies devoted to our national pastime’s greatest players, but here, at last, is one dedicated to those, for reasons far more personal than stats-based, we call our favorites. In Top of the Order twenty-five of today’s premier sports journalists, cultural critics, novelists,...
I Got a Name
The Jim Croce Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Jim Croce, singer-songwriter of the #1 hits Bad Bad Leroy Brown and Time in a Bottle, was at the height of his career when his life was cut short in a plane crash while on tour. Just 30 years old on September 20, 1973, Jim was revered by an adoring audience for his gentle melodies and everyman demeanor.
Now,...