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The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.
Rivalry is at the heart of some...
Known and Strange Things
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus
Finalist...
Mademoiselle
Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth...
Grace
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret...
Painter in a Savage Land
The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the...
by David Lynch, Kristine McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family
“Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive account of Lynch’s...
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning...
Freddie Mercury
Una biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2018
La biografía ilustrada del líder de Queen, uno de los mitos más poderosos del siglo XX, escrita e ilustrada por Alfonso Casas.
¿Quién no ha cantado a pleno pulmón «I Want To Break Free»? ¿O dramatizado con total entrega «Bohemian Rapsody»?
Detrás de estas canciones, que forman...
Learning to Sing
Hearing the Music in Your Life: An Inspirational Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church...
by Don Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating with new content
Introduced by Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of WA and senior minister in the Keating government.
"Others have fair claim on the economic transformation of Australia, but Paul Keating's so-called 'big picture'...
Gladstone
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine...
Why Courage Matters
The Way to a Braver Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.
“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is...
The Same Man
George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals,...
In an Instant
A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped a nation.
In January 2006, the Woodruffs seemed to have...