Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Simon & Schuster Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours
Book SynopsisThis intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about some of the most famous people of the past fifty years, including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him—a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra’s closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol that offers “new information on almost every page” (The Wall Street Journal). Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse—about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they’d led, the lives they wished they’d led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world’s biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer’s hand when he drew his last breath. “Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle” (Parade magazine)—Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain on a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.Trade Review“There’s new information on almost every page…Frank fans will find plenty to cheer…A believable portrait of a towering 20th-century figure in the defiant December of his years.” —Wall Street Journal“There are many books about Sinatra but few, if any, written by someone who spent as much time with him as the legend Tony O. If you are a Frank fan, buy this book.” —Jimmy Kimmel“Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle in Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours. Enjoy intimate accounts of late-night drinking sessions, Las Vegas reveling, Rat Pack glory days, mob-tie truths and those infamous relationships with Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, Marilyn Monroe and more.” —Parade magazine“Tony Oppedisano enjoyed unrivaled access to the man many consider America’s greatest 20th-century entertainer [and] shares the tales with punch and panache….Late-in-life wisdom seeps through as Sinatra recounts regrets about leaving his first marriage, takes stock of who his true friends are and tries to keep his music career flourishing...Perhaps the most surprisingly interesting portion of the book may be Oppedisano sharing his own life story and details of first entering Sinatra’s orbit….Sinatra and Me may not set the record straight about every misconception of its title subject but not for lack of Oppedisano trying. That the results of such a quest prove so readable, human and sympathetic testifies to the writer’s powerful memory and singular life experiences.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “An unblinking yet affectionate portrait of the singer in the October, November, and December of his years, and should appeal to diehards and rubberneckers alike.” —Airmail“An invaluable record…Sinatra and Me may leave readers longing for a friend like Frank; they'd be equally lucky to have one like Oppedisano. This tribute by Sinatra's much-younger best friend is like an Ol' Blue Eyes tune: sparkling, warm and emotionally true.” —Shelf Awareness“Oppedisano debuts with a remarkable look at the final years of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century….This fascinating and intimate account stands out among the dozens of books written about the celebrated legend.” —Publishers Weekly“A fond remembrance of a deep friendship…Reveals a vulnerability in the Chairman of the Board that is often quite moving.” —Booklist“Revealing…A must-read for Sinatra fans, this lovingly written, sweetly devoted account may even solve some pop-culture mysteries.” —Kirkus Reviews"Utterly clear-eyed yet truly loving...A matchless portrait of a flawed, brilliant man—and of a great friendship. A gem of a book.” —James Kaplan, bestselling author of Frank: The Voice and The Chairman“What a great book! Tony O. does here what many have tried to do without quite succeeding: he’s made Frank Sinatra accessible….Certainly, this is one of the very best of the Sinatra books and, I daresay, maybe the only one the man himself would actually read!” —J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author of Sinatra: Behind the Legend“Tony O. was Frank Sinatra’s go-to guy, and in this affectionate and intimate memoir, he writes about the wee small hours with the love and even awe that the great singer evoked. ….Even veteran Frankophiles will enjoy the twice-told tales, the striking new ones, and the natural eloquence of heartfelt eulogy in Sinatra and Me.” —David Lehman, author of Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World"I knew and loved and dated and worshipped Frank Sinatra—he was like no one else—and I consider myself a very contented survivor. This book was one of the best trips I’ve ever had. Tony captures the real Frank. I think I’ll be reading Sinatra and Me over and over.” —Angie Dickinson, star of more than 50 Hollywood films“The legend that is Frank Sinatra remains a fascinating topic. Tony O. had a deep and abiding friendship with Ol' Blue Eyes and an all-access pass to his life. We all are fortunate that he chose to share these intimate recollections with us.” —Michael Bublé, four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist"Having a friendship like the one between Frank Sinatra and Tony O. was a true gift. Believe me, Tony was there in the 'wee small hours of the morning.' Sinatra and Me is a wonderful book." —Robert Wagner, star of It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart“Literally, my entire life has been intimately intertwined with America’s beloved ‘Rat Pack’—with my Uncle Frank as Chairman of the Board; my Dad, the King of Cool; and the amazing man I call Uncle Sammy….This book is definitely 'Dal Cuore'—from the heart. Tony captures not just Frank but Frank’s entire world….You’re in for an authentic treat.” —Deana Martin, actress and Billboard Top 40 recording artist“Frank Sinatra, never anything less than a riveting presence, was a man I was lucky enough to be around and get to know—but Tony O. knew him as few men know each other….This is a deeply intimate book, and well worth the read.” —Tony Danza, star of Taxi and Who’s the Boss?"If you knew Frank Sinatra you knew Tony Oppedisano. The love, loyalty, respect, and friendship Tony showed Frank was infinite, and perhaps most important, wasn't just directed to the artist and legend but to the human being." —Lorna Luft, actress, singer, and New York Times bestselling author of Me and My Shadows"I loved Tony’s book. It's fun and paints such a vivid picture of the times that I felt I'd actually just spent a weekend in Palm Springs with Frank…and still have a hangover." —George Schlatter, former producer of the Grammy Awards and of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
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Otago University Press Hudson & Halls: The food of love
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Otago University Press West Island: Five twentieth-century New
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Granville Island Publishing Luminous: An artists story as a guide to radical
Book SynopsisIn her memoir, artist Linda Frimer traces the layered histories of art and the artists of each era alongside her familys journey from Eastern Europe to the wilderness of western Canada. Born in Wells, and later spending her childhood in nearby Prince George, Frimers development as an artist was intimately impacted by her upbringing in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. It was here that Frimer developed a deep empathy and reverence for the First Nations of Canada, who were on this land thousands of years before European colonization. It was also here that Frimer first realized that nature and culture rose inseparable in creation, and that she had a responsibility to both. Throughout her book, Frimer strives to break down barriers between varying perspectives, while guiding the reader through a series of artistic exercises designed to cultivate imagination and to foster cultural and environmental healing through creativity. Accompanied by her acclaimed artwork, close examination of art history and theory, and exploration of Jewish spirituality, Frimer explores the power of colour, the symbols that help to give life meaning, and the importance of creativity in not only protecting, but ennobling existence. Luminous aims to inspire each of us to become the artist of our own story.
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Otago University Press Robert Lord Diaries
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Massey University Press Ans Westra
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Danann Media Publishing Limited Once in a Blue Moon: The Unforgettable Frank
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Danann Media Publishing Limited Led Zeppelin: You Shook Me
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Danann Media Publishing Limited Bruce Springsteen: Glory Days - 50 Years of
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Jake Island Ltd Terry Abraham: Life on the Mountains
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Edition Olms Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The
Book SynopsisThe American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that long after Promontory Point and the Civil War, so those memories were still there in the minds of the very first movie audiences as they watched The Great Train Robbery. And the myth-making is as important as the brutal truths of history. As the reporter tells Jimmy Stewart in Fords The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Rendered in rare, evocative tones reminiscent of Edward Sheriff Curtiss immortal photographs, Western Portraits of Great Character Actors provides readers with a collection of stylised portraits that capture the allure and mystique of the Old West, complete with authentic costuming, weaponry and settings. From the epic feature film to the TV series and serial, this coffee table book will put the story of character actors and the significance of their memorable roles into an entertaining perspective. The subjects include such popular, recognizable actors as Karl Malden, David Carradine, Denver Pyle, R G Armstrong, L Q Jones, Horst Buchholz, Henry Silva, Ruta Lee, Morgan Woodward, Bo Hopkins, Clu Gulager and 72 others.
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Edition Axel Menges Erdmut Bramke, Werkverzeichnis: Bd.1 -- Gemalde
Book SynopsisText in German. Erdmut Bramke, who was born in 1940 in Kiel and died in 2002 in Stuttgart, is one of the few 20th-century artists whose work consistently expressed a purely painterly position. She worked only with colour and structures. The use of acrylic colours enabled her to create unique colour constellations. Her unusual palate of colours and novel shades of colour were a constant surprise. In her stylistic idiom she emphasised flowing lines, interspersed colour shadowing with linear structures and experimented with images produced by dip-ping the image body in colour and also by using different materials. Her works are represented in many public and private collections, including the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Ulmer Museum, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Bundeskunsthalle, also in Bonn, and the Kunsthalle Kiel. Erdmut Bramke studied painting from 1961 to 1967 at the academies in Berlin and Stuttgart. Her teachers were Heinz Trökes and K R H Sonderborg. Repeated study periods in France and Italy took her creative work into constantly new directions. Particularly important for her artistic development was the time she spent as a stipendiary fellow at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1979/80 and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1986. The present catalogue raisonné of the artists freelance work was commissioned by the Freunde der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, as prescribed by the terms of the bequest of Erdmut Bramke her artistic design of buildings will follow in a later volume. Volume one is devoted to the paintings. It is introduced by essays of six people in her circle who focus on Bramkes importance for painting in the latter half of the 20th century. Volume two presents the sizable uvre of her works on paper, which must be accorded equal weight in the artists work. Reprinted in both volumes are contemporary texts from catalogues, newspaper articles and talks by Reinhard Döhl, Eugen Gomringer, Karin von Maur and others that show how the artists work was received during her lifetime. Until her retirement, Ulrike Gauß was the head of the Graphische Sammlung of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Susanne Grötz is a freelance art historian and exhibition curator, Carolin Jörg teaches artistic design at the Hochschule Augsburg.
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DOM Publishers Stalin's Architect: The Rise and Fall of Boris
Book SynopsisBoris Iofan (1891 – 1976) was considered Josef Stalin’s ‘court architect’ due to his closeness to the dictator, whose design ideas he translated into reality. His name is associated with projects such as the House on the Embankment, the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the Palace of the Soviets, which was never realised. In the period from 1932 to 1947, he was one of the most important, if not the most important architect of the Soviet Union. This biography, a detailed study of Iofan’s creative development, is based on previously unpublished documents. It also contains never-before-published visual material, including original drawings and sketches by the architect and his collaborators: most of this comes from Iofan’s archive, which is now in the collection of the Museum für Architekturzeichnung in Berlin.
£23.75
OM Books International The Bachchans: A Saga of Excellence
Book SynopsisGorgeously designed and beautifully produced, this is not just a collectorâs edition but also a visual history, like no other, of an important page of Indiaâs popular culture.
£224.62
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gopal Ghose a Jubilant Quest for the Chromatic
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Museum Tusculanum Press Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes & Asta
Book SynopsisThis book utilises the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country''s deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern Danishness (Danskhed) that Denmark itself only gradually (and later) grew into. This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought-provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity issues that continue to be significant in today''s multiethnic Denmark. Icons of Danish Modernity is a book about the uneasy waves that arise when celebrities take on national symbolism and about the beginnings of this formula in the early twentieth century.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Johann Adolph Scheibe: A Catalogue of His Works
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New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Photographer: Writing with Light
Book SynopsisFrom shutter click to final print-L. Ron Hubbard mastered every element of the photographic process. Uncover the purpose behind his photos and find out the stable data he formulated for every photographer. This volume is used by some of the top photographers in seminars and personal training in photography.
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New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Music Maker
Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in the universal language of music. Track Ron's lifelong pursuit as a musical director, arranger, performer and composer; read his rare articles on the subject of music and see inside the cutting-edge L. Ron Hubbard Music Studio.
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Museum Tusculanum Press J P E Hartmann og hans kreds -- 3-Volume Set: En
Book SynopsisJ P E Hartmann (1805-1900) is one of the most renowned figures within Danish musical history. In the course of his lifetime he corresponded with many writers and artists of the Golden Age, including Hans Christian Andersen, Oehlenschläger, Heiberg and August Bournonville. He also had relations with foreign composers such as Liszt, Mendelssohn, Heinrich Marschner, Louis Spohr and Grieg. His son, Emil Hartmann, who was also a composer, is represented by a large number of letters which elucidate both his struggle for professional recognition and the Copenhagen musical scene of that time.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Circling Marilyn: Text Body Performance
Book SynopsisThis book approaches the famous star in a manner that recognizes the impossibility of ever locating the real Marilyn Monroe. It gets close to the actress by discussing the chameleonic performances of Marilyn as woman, star, and text. Like Elvis, Marilyn lives, because she has become a discourse articulating major issues in the cultures she inhabits, whether in the 1950s or in the 21st century. In circling Marilyn country, this book discusses Marilyn as text, since those who knew and did not know her -- husbands, lovers, fans, writers, directors, co-stars, critics -- have written about Marilyn differently, and endlessly. Circling Marilyn also scrutinizes Marilyn as Body, but it locates not just one body, but many -- including a disciplined and a communicative body. Other chapters consider the performing Marilyn and Marilyn performed. Marilyn takes on roles as herself, as a white and black woman, as a cowgirl on the Last Frontier, while others play Marilyn by snatching her famous body for their own purposes, at gay parades or in cyberspace. Circling Marilyn aims at readers engaged in American Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Literature, as well as the general public, whose appetite for Marilyn Monroe keeps her alive, if eternally elusive.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Kashmir As I See It: From within and afar
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar
Book SynopsisAshok Kumar (19112001), fondly known as Dadamoni, is one of the great icons of Hindi cinema. This warm, intimate biography traces his remarkable journey, from reluctant actor to Bollywood's first superstar and, in his later years, a much-loved presence on national television. Born in Bhagalpur (then in the Bengal Presidency), Ashok Kumar was enthralled by the bioscope' as a child. In his twenties, he quit his law studies and came to Bombay to become a film director. But liferather, Himanshu Rai, the founder of Bombay Talkieshad different plans for him. Despite the director's reservations, he was cast in the lead role opposite Devika Rani in the 1936 film Jeevan Naiyya when the original hero went missing. The same year, Ashok Kumar was paired with Devika Rani again in Achhut Kanya, which was a blockbuster.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb
Book SynopsisEqually, the book is a gloriously witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.
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HarperCollins India Sun Mere Bandhu Re: The Musical World of SD
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HarperCollins Publishers India Because He Is
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR
Book SynopsisThe Stranger in the Mirror is the memoir of theegendary producer-director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Co-written by noted marketer-author, Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta, this book chronicles the richly experiential, multi-facetedife of one of India''s most celebrated and feted directors who has made critically acclaimed filmsike Rang De Basanti, Delhi-6 and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Though it may seem natural for an autobiography to have a primary narrator, what makes this book truly unique is its many narrators. It is this multi-dimensional, multi-character narration that will enable readers to delve deep and truly understand what it means to be as unselfish as Mehra, a man who gleefully steps back andets the experts do their job. Peppered with anecdotes from Mehra''sifefrom the chai-biscuit college days to the popping of the proverbial champagneit implores readers to pay attention to understand who is narrating, because the plot may have just shifted aittle bit, justike his movies. At the end, what really stands out is how effortless the journey has actually been. And hereinies the greatest paradox because there is noack of perseverance in this journey. The miraculous manner in which things fall into place naturally,ike pieces of a pre-ordained puzzle with the universe acting as the sutradhar'', is the fulcrum around which the joy of this remarkable journey is built.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A COUNTRY CALLED CHILDHOOD: A Memoir
Book SynopsisA Country Called Childhood is a beautifully told memoir of growing up in Amritsar in the tumultuous 1950s and 60s by award-winning actress Deepti Naval. In extremely visual and evocative prose, Naval describes an unforgettable childhood filled withove, adventure, mystery, tragedy, and joy. She uncovers, in great detail,ife in an unconventional Punjabi family while plunging the reader into the distinctive sights, smells, and sounds of a fast-vanishing India. Starting at the moment of her birth on a rainy night, she tracks her journey to adulthood, a path punctuated by many personal turning points as also momentous events of national importance, such as the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Indo-Pak War of 1965. Moving and illuminating, A Country Called Childhood shows how Naval''s earlyove affair with cinema and the experiences of her childhood shaped her career as one of the country''s most admired actors.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE MAKING OF THE GREATEST MICROSOFT
Book SynopsisStarting with a turnover of just $16, 005 in 1976, Microsoft, the house that Windows built'', had clocked up over $143 billion in revenues in 2020. It also became one of the very few companies to cross the $1 trillion mark in market capitalization! It''s not just the story of its main architectsbill Gates and Paul allenbut also of peopleike Steve Ballmer and Satan Nadella, who have taken Microsoft into an orbit of its own. This book affords us fascinating insights into how modern businesses are built, sustained and scaled up, besides offering an analysis of how differenteadersead the same organization in their own unique ways. The book traces Microsoft''s eventful journey from its early fledgling days to the current dominant statusits first major deal with IBM and theaunching of Windows and Office software, gaming gadgets, and making forays into other computer products and servicesike cloud, mobile phones, computer hardware and artificial intelligence, covering the entire gamut of information Technology. This is a story that has no parallels.
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Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Life of Nyanatiloka Thera: The Biography of a
Book SynopsisVen. Nyanatiloka, a pioneering European Buddhist monk, ordained in 1903, attracted many disciples and left a lasting influence through his scholarly work and translations of Pali scriptures. His autobiography and biographical postscript cover his life until his death in 1957.
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Gefen Publishing House Giacamo Meyerbeer: The Deliberately Forgotten
Book SynopsisWhen Giacomo Meyerbeer died in 1864 at the age of seventy-two, he was widely regarded as having written the greatest operas since Mozart. And yet, remarkably, his fame and his very name were all but eliminated from the history of music for approximately a hundred years. Who did the dastardly deed? Each for his own reasons, the principal culprits were Schumann, Mendelssohn, Heine, and Wagner. David Faiman presents here an outline of Meyerbeer''s life: his precocious childhood in Prussia, his rise to fame in Italy, his reluctant achievement of superstar status in Paris, the jealousy this engendered among some of his less successful colleagues, and the way one of the above-mentioned availed himself of the latent anti-Semitism of nineteenth-century audiences to remove Meyerbeer''s works from our stages and airbrush his very name from our awareness. Thankfully Meyerbeer is now enjoying a deserved revival. This book helps to reintroduce some of the music world''s greatest long-lost pleasures.
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Gefen Publishing House La Revolucion Espiritual de Rav Kook: Los
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Sang-e-Meel Publications Fiaz, Folk Heritage and Problems of Culture
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Baakhan Nyane Waa Guided By Gods Lost In Lines
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HarperCollins Publishers McQueen The Biography
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HarperCollins Publishers GILCHRIST ON BLAKE The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
Book SynopsisLIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
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HarperCollins Publishers sofarewellthenthebiographyofpetercook
Book SynopsisThe most intimate portrait of Peter Cook to date, Cook's first wife writes of her life with Britain's most ingenious and innovative comedian, and offering a side of him few have ever seen.Trade Review'An evocative and moving account of Cook's beginnings'Daily Express 'Her candid disclosures reveal a side of the man the fans never saw.'Sunday Express 'Peter was a wit, it goes without saying, but he was funny in an almost supernatural way that has never been matched by anyone I've met or even heard about.'Stephen Fry 'If there is a heaven he will be the funniest man there.' Clive Anderson 'Possibly the funniest man in the Western world. From his early 20s, nobody could hold a candle to him.'Daily Mail
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HarperCollins Publishers The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz
Book SynopsisThe incredible, uncensored full story of the number one male porn star and legend, told in his own words.Trade ReviewBook of the Month in the April issue of Boys Toys ‘Explosive’Sunday World ‘It's fun to read… my opinion of the 'Hedgehog' was considerably raised.' Desire magazine
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HarperCollins Publishers Tom Jones The Life
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Walk This Way
Book SynopsisWalk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith is available in time for the Aerosmith''s 40th Anniversary. It''s the New York Times bestselling autobiography by the legendary rock group that lived by the motto Anything worth doing was worth overdoing. Aerosmith shook the music world out of its ''70s doldrums…and made living on the edge an art form. Walk This Way is the complete and candid story of their meteoric rise to fame, their near destruction due to drugs and excess, and their return to the stage as one of America''s greatest rock bands. Cowritten by respected rock journalist Stephen Davis, author of the seminal profile of Led Zeppelin, Hammer of the Gods, and with a new afterward from the band, this edition of the memoir to end all rock memoirs is the perfect gift for you and your favorite Aerosmith fan.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Nicholas Ray The Glorious Failure of an American
Book SynopsisThe visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish. This title presents portrait of Nicholas Ray - a man whose troubled life was punctuated by moments of creative genius.Trade Review"[A] portrait of a filmmaker who managed over time to upstage the movies that made him celebrated." -- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "A clear and balanced portrait of a most complex man." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] fascinating, formidable account of a director whose life was as fraught with complications and melodrama as were his movies...Meticulously researched and gratifying, a biographical page-turner." -- Library Journal (starred review) "McGilligan limns the tragic trajectory of Ray's career with insight and compassion." -- Booklist
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HarperCollins PAPER LIFE
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HarperCollins Fabulosity
Book SynopsisExplains how to balance feminine, stop-them-in-their-tracks glamour with sign-on-the-dotted-line business power; how to get past barriers that exist because of gender, race, or age; how to find a marriageable man who'll support your biggest dreams (while keeping other women at bay); and how to have the most fun of your life while doing it.
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HarperCollins Hells Angel
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HarperCollins Everything and Nothing The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A LIFE IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT
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