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Julia
Her Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Julia Roberts represents a return to the glamour of the great Hollywood stars of another era. Fans flock to her movies, and she's a staple cover subject of People magazine and every entertainment show imaginable, but her real life has only been seen in tabloid glimpses until now. James Spada has gone...
by H. Paul Jeffers, Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a shot during WWII and led no troops into battle—his brilliance was purely strategic and diplomatic, and incredibly effective. He was responsible for the building, supplying, and, in part, the...
Les Parisiennes
How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book.” —Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes
New York Times bestselling...
Heaven
A Prison Diary Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Jeffrey Archer's final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from a medium security prison, HMP Wayland, to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that...
Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes*. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."*
…If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary...
Jane Austen at Home
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda...
Prince of Stories
The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series The Sandman to novels such as the New York Times bestselling...
James Tiptree, Jr.
The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don't See....
Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Dear Reader,
As I was about to start my eleventh novel, I abruptly realized that I was making a huge mistake. On the verge of launching into the imagined world of a twenty-eight-year-old, I felt an intense need to tell another story, the story of a woman I know through and through...a woman...
Looking for Anne of Green Gables
The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born. That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables, and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than...
Time Was Soft There
A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small...
by Andrew Lycett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of Ian Fleming's life proving that it was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation. Educated...
The Last Love Song
A Biography of Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center Will Not Hold on Netflix delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist...
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization.
In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces...