Biography: general Books
Kensington Publishing Gottis Boys
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Kensington Publishing A Tangled Web
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Kensington Publishing A Tangled Web A Cyberstalker a Deadly Obsession
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time--as she exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer at the dark heart of a real-life fatal attraction...It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska.Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone--including her dying father. Though Cari's boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, was hurt, he accepted the breakup-text at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, doubted that kind-hearted Cari had sent the rude texts she received. I need to hear your voice, Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing. While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police were skeptical of Nanc
£15.26
Kensington Publishing The Cigar
Book SynopsisFrom the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Galante, the ruthless Bonnano boss who rose from tenement street thug to masterminding the legendary global heroin trafficking network, the French Connection – always with a cigar in his mouth.HIS WAR CRY: “I RULE EVERYTHING.” FOR HALF A CENTURY HE ALMOST DID. The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan’s Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. At age ten his home away from home was juvenile detention. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York’s Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the “errands” he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob’s top enforcers–a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams: whack his way into controlling organized cr
£21.60
Beacon Press Notes of a Native Son
Book SynopsisIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatr
£21.60
Beacon Press Still Life with Oysters and Lemon On Objects and
Book SynopsisMark Doty's prose has been hailed as tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene (The New York Times Book Review) and achingly beautiful (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.
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Penguin Random House LLC Ruined By Reading A Life in Books
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Beacon Press Proud Shoes
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
£25.26
Louisiana State University Press The Hitler Kiss A Memoir of Czech Resistance
Book SynopsisRadomir Luza's father - an army general - went underground when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Tthe 19-year-old Radomir spent weeks in a Gestapo prison. On his release, he joined his father in hiding and helped organize the country's largest resistance network. Luza's narrative is a portrait of courage, tenderness, optimism and sheer survival.Trade Review"A work of art that coherently ties together countless beautifully narrated scenes of a most dramatic segment of Central European history." - International History Review; "Readers will come away with the feeling that they have just learned the best kind of history lesson - the triumph of the human spirit in the face of evil." - New Orleans Times-Picayune"
£21.80
Louisiana State University Press Youve Got to Tell Them
Book SynopsisReplete with pedagogical resources including a discussion of how and why the Holocaust should be taught, a timeline, and suggestions for further reading, Potter's translation of You've Got to Tell Them showcases a clear and moving narrative of a young French girl overcoming one of the darkest periods in her life and in European history.
£29.46
Louisiana State University Press The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens
Book SynopsisExamines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Considering Buchanan and Stevens's divergent lives alongside their political and social worlds reveals the dynamics and directions of American politics.
£36.86
Louisiana State University Press Touring the Antebellum South with an English
Book SynopsisDiligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Anton Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled across America by river and rail.
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Louisiana State University Press George Washington Carver
Book SynopsisOffers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and supporters. In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Christina Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with a quirky sense of humour, striking eccentricities, and an unwavering religious faith.
£24.65
LSU Press Adventures of a Louisiana Birder
Book SynopsisA candid and humorous chronicle showing how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of 300 species of birds.
£20.85
The University of North Carolina Press Sodom Laurel Album
Book SynopsisWhen Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton, she was 76 years old and had lived most of her life in the mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina. This work traces the relationship between them, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and by the gatherings of family.
£43.65
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Light Writing and Life Writing Photography in Autobiography
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which text and image can interact with and reflect on one another in the context of autobiography. The text focuses on the work of many writers and photographers and includes work by Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Eudora Welty, Wright Morris and Edward Weston.
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St. Martin's Press Margaret Sanger A Life of Passion
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Chicago Heights Little Joe College the Outfit
Book SynopsisIn this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles ""Charley"" Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights. Chicago Heights is part rags-to-riches story, part murder mystery, and part redemption tale.
£18.71
Wildside Press The Work of Robert Reginald An Annotated Bibliography Guide 5 Bibliographies of Modern Authors
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Northwestern University Press Years of Estrangement Jewish Lives
Book SynopsisThis work contains two narratives which together offer a portrait of how two German Jews came to terms with the changes in their lives brought on by the Nazis.Table of ContentsUnder the Nazi regime: experiences and observations, 1933-1938, Erich Leyens; memoirs of an unknown actress, or, I never was a genuine St Bernard, Lotte Andor.
£16.96
Northwestern University Press The Return of the Author Rethinking Theory
Book SynopsisThis work traces the debate of biographical criticism.
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Northwestern University Press Perverzion Writings from an Unbound Europe
Book SynopsisWhat was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky - poet, provocateur and hero of Ukranian underground culture? This text constructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps of paper.
£103.75
Northwestern University Press No Love Without Poetry
Book SynopsisThe memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva’s life and work, told from the point of view of her daughter. This wrenching story about the difficulty of living with genius charts Efron’s relationship with her parents as they navigate art and exile.Trade Review“[Efron’s] memoir is the work of a delicate and skilled writer. It plunges into a past before the darkness descended, brilliantly re-creating a childhood world (often with great humor), and takes us into what Ignashev describes as ‘the luminous, magical fantasy world of her mother’s poetry.’ It is also a lyrical portrait of her parents that is profoundly loving.” —Liam Carson, Poetry Ireland Review "Diane Nemec Ignashev’s translation of these memoirs and the textological work she invested . . . [are] outstanding." —Olga Peters Hasty, author of How Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman Poet (Northwestern University Press, 2019)“Diane Nemec Ignashev’s translation of Ariadna Efron’s memoirs gives a varied selection of writings in a rendering that is both punctilious and lyrical. The book is not only a rich and valuable source on the life and work of Tsvetaeva, as its subtitle advertises, but proof that Ariadna Efron was herself a wonderful writer. The book will attract not only fans of Tsvetaeva, but anyone with an interest in Russia in the early twentieth century or Russian emigre life of the 1920s and 30s.” — American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
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Scarecrow Press An Unsung Cat
Book SynopsisAn Unsung Cat explores the life and music of jazz saxophonist, Warne Marsh. Safford Chamberlain follows the artist from his start in youth bands like the Hollywood Canteen Kids and The Teen-Agers through his studies under Lennie Tristano, his brilliant playing of the 1950s, his disappearance from public view in the 1960s, his re-emergence in the 1970s, and his belated recognition in the 1980s as one of the finest tenor players of the post-World War II era. Through interviews with the Marsh family and friends, Chamberlain offers an inside view of Marsh''s private life, including his struggles with drug abuse. Detailed analysis of outstanding performances complements the personal story, while an extensively researched discography and photographs reveal the public and private face of this unique performer. In addition to the book, Scarecrow is pleased to offer a companion compact disc, released by Storyville Records. The tracks on the CD provide a representative sampling of Marsh''s best work, while providing a historical overview of his development, from the beginning track, Apple Honey, which is a private, low-fidelity tape from an NBC radio broadcast in 1945 of the Hoagy Carmichael Show, to the final track, Sweet and Lovely, captured months before his death in 1987.Trade ReviewUnsung Cat is not only a many-faceted, novelistic biography by a noted jazz journalist and one of Marsh's former sax students, but a heartbreaking mystery that tortures readers with questions as deeply as it satisfies with narrative richness. Who was this jazz cipher, and how did so many of us miss his musical genius?...The publisher has put together a companion CD released by Storyville Records and a book and Cd set for $68.50. That should serve as a good introduction to Marsh's work. * Jazzsteps *..highly-detailed biography...an interesting story... * Rapport *...painstakingly researched and gracefully written...A fine volume... * CHOICE *...with Chamberlain's discerning comments on the music, the interested reader will easily be able to follow Marsh's musical development...the discography is invaluable for a player like Marsh... * The IAJRC Journal *...remarkable job of cutting through the myth of Warne Marsh and taking a serious, analytical look at his life and his music...Chamberlain's book is one of the finest examples of jazz biography, and worthy of Marsh's legacy in every way. * All Music Guide To Jazz *Safford Chamberlain...has just given a big boost to Marsh's stock. An Unsung Cat: The Life and Music of Warne Marsh ... is a thorough and objective study of a man Chamberlain calls 'a flawed genius.' Chamberlain's book is important in many respects. Aside from its value as a biography, he provides an informative discography of Marsh's recorded work. An accompanying section of transcribed Marsh solos will prove invaluable to musicians. In addition, Chamberlain has compiled a companion CD of important Marsh recordings. * Pasadena Weekly *Warne Marsh left a legacy of fine recordings which are thoroughly analyzed by Chamberlain in his compelling and insightful journey into one jazz musician's existence. Safford Chamberlain has compiled a brilliant biography of a very complicated man...This is savvy writing from a man who is in tune with jazz by virtue of being a musician, scholar and a relentless searcher for truth and accuracy. This is the best and most legitimate bio that I have read in years.... * Jazzreview.com *Chamberlain studies jazz saxophone for awhile with Marsh (1927-87), but eventually gave it up in favor of his day job teaching literature and writing about jazz. Still the experience inspired him to produce a biography of his teacher. Aside from some exuberant fans, he says, Marsh was considered a very good second-level tenor saxophonist during his career, but attributes his lack of recognition primarily to an outsider temperament that led him to mismanage his own affairs and contribute to his own obscurity. * Reference and Research Book News *...a detailed picture of this fascinating musician. * European Free Improvisation Bibliography *
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Scarecrow Press Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist
Book SynopsisIn 1996, George Walker became the first black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. This accolade, awarded for his composition Lilacs, was just one of many Walker has received: Walker has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and has received six honorary doctoral degrees. Considered one of the most important American composers of the last century, Walker has produced works that rank among the finest in contemporary classical music. In Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist, Walker recounts the most significant events in his life and distinguished career as a composer and a musician. Beginning with his childhood in Washington, D.C., Walker reflects on pivotal moments that shaped his development as an artist. He recalls his early childhood, his professional debut as a concert pianist, his studies in Europe, and his connections with some of the world''s most famous musicians. Along the way he includes analyses of some of his most important worksTrade ReviewWalker’s autobiographical recollections are balanced and even-handed; he recounts both triumphs and disappointments in straightforward, almost bare-boned prose that allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions....Writing of his early life, he compellingly portrays the strong, quiet dignity of his parents and grandmother, qualities he’s obviously imbibed and assimilated as integral parts of his own personality. Short but revealing portraits of famous musicians add a colorful touch. Overall, Walker’s autobiography should be of interest to anyone curious about the life and works of a distinguished American composer. * Fanfare Magazine, May 2010 *Walker is at his best when he discusses his music, especially his desire to write music that is technically accomplished and musically interesting at the same time. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, June 2010 *Walker details his accomplishments, activities, and achievements - and yes, aggravations and affronts - in "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist," a memoir that's just been released by Scarecrow Press....Walker creates his works of art with a deliberative meticulousness. * Bookshelf, August 2009 *That Walker was one of the foremost of contemporary composers was evident long before he won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1996. Here he offers an account of his stellar background, from his first studies in his native Washington, DC, through his degree work at Oberlin, Curtis, and Eastman-not to mention private study with Nadia Boulanger and others-providing details not previously available. . . . Walker's work as both composer and pianist, his insight into his contacts with fellow professionals, and terse analyses of his major works all unite here, making this autobiographical study a priority for musicians. Highly recommended. * CHOICE, December 2009 *
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Because I Was Flesh The Autobiography of Edward
Book SynopsisBecause I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg’s life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it.Trade Review"Dahlberg wed the kill-the-father imperative, the famous anxiety of influence, to the truism that a man is only as big as his enemies." -- Jonathan Lethem - Harper's"Because I Was Flesh is a work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence and power." -- Alfred Kazin
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Letter to the Americans
Book SynopsisLike Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issuesTrade Review"The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented, or regretted." -- W.H. Auden"One of the master craftsmen." -- Tennessee Williams"A man to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City." -- Edith Wharton"That is how Jean Cocteau’s work seems to us, like a light, aerial, stormy civilization hanging from the heavy heart of our own. The very person of the poet adds to it, thin, knotted, silvery as olive trees" -- Jean Genet"Cocteau’s fans won’t regret making room for this short but sweet outing on their shelves." -- Publishers Weekly"In our current moment of distrust and anger and suspicion, Cocteau’s reminder is a welcome tonic." -- New York Journal of Books
£9.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation A Childs Christmas in Wales
Book SynopsisThe classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrationsTrade Review"A merrier and more pungent celebration of the season for family reading aloud has not been written in our time." -- The Nation"Enchanting." -- Chicago Tribune"Surely this Christmas story ranks among the great experiences of the language." -- Harper’s Magazine"The language is enchanting and the poetry shines with an unearthly radiance." -- The New York Times
£10.09
University of Pennsylvania Press Undercurrents of Power
Book SynopsisLong before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways, they became proficient in diverse maritime skills, while incorporating water and aquatics into spiritual understandings of the world. Transported to the Americas, slaves carried with them these West African skills and cultural values. Indeed, according to Kevin Dawson''s examination of water culture in the African diaspora, the aquatic abilities of people of African descent often surpassed those of Europeans and their descendants from the age of discovery until well into the nineteenth century.As Dawson argues, histories of slavery have largely chronicled the fields of the New World, whether tobacco, sugar, indigo, rice, or cotton. However, most plantations were located near waterways to facilitate the transportation of goods to market, and large numbers of agricultural slaves had Trade Review"Kevin Dawson's masterly synthesis goes beyond filling a gap in maritime history: it reconfirms and expands a discourse on maritime traditions of Africans at home and abroad, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." * The International Journal of Maritime History *"This is an important book in a number of ways. It displays the ways many enslaved Africans used the knowledge they brought with them to expand the space available to them. It gives us a picture of how aspects of slavery in one of the most coercive slave societies ever created were negotiated. It is also a contribution to aquatic history and culture informed by Kevin Dawson's passion for and understanding of aquatic life. In making his arguments, Dawson uses a wide range of sources and uses them well. Most important, he gives us a picture of those enslaved as agents, who used their knowledge and their skills to push the boundaries of their enslavement." * Early American Literature *"Kevin Dawson's Undercurrents of Power is important. More than perhaps any study in recent memory, it brings the existence, value, and meaning of water in the African diaspora to the forefront of Atlantic cultural, social, and economic development. In a broad,sweeping narrative, Dawson covers remarkable ground, crisscrossing the Atlantic as he draws together hundreds of examples of how water defined the pre-slavery lives of Africans forced into the Atlantic slave trade and how it helped diverse peoples and cultures identify themselves, individually and collectively, in the whirlwind and trauma of enslavement. The work explores the complexities of honor, warfare, social status, youth, sex, technology, and leisure and how each interacted with, and indeed structured itself around, water and aquatic spaces." * The Journal of Southern History *"Stunning . . . Undercurrents of Power brings to light the various aquatic traditions of Africans and Diasporans working, cultivating, and negotiating the riparian, oceanic, lake, and swamp biomes both in the context of Africa and in the environments they encountered throughout the Atlantic and into the Americas . . . In the process of opening various kinds of waterscapes to historical analysis, Dawson fundamentally reimagines the cultural dynamics shaping the Americas." * Black Perspectives *"Undercurrents of Power is a significant intervention into the fields of Early Vast America, African Diaspora, African American, and Caribbean histories. By focusing on African aquatic cultural and material contributions, Dawson rescues African maritime narratives in the early Atlantic World, which have been grossly ignored or silenced. It is a must-read for scholars and graduate students in these respective fields. The prose is captivating and clear." * Journal of Early American History *"Kevin Dawson offers the remarkable untold history of the significance of aquatic culture in the African diaspora. Undercurrents of Power opens up a new and exciting aspect of slaves' experience, providing a crucially important piece of the history of slave life and labor in the Americas." * James Sidbury, Rice University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Waterscapes of the African Diaspora PART I. SWIMMING CULTURE Chapter 1. Atlantic African Aquatic Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Chapter 2. Cultural Meanings of Recreational Swimming and Surfing Chapter 3. Aquatic Sports and Performance Rituals: Gender, Bravery, and Honor Chapter 4. History from Below: Enslaved Underwater Divers Chapter 5. Undercurrents of Power: Challenging Racial Hierarchies from Below PART II. CANOE CULTURE Chapter 6. African Canoe-Makers: Constructing Floating Cultures Chapter 7. Mountains Divide and Rivers Unite: Atlantic African Canoemen Chapter 8. Maritime Continuities: African Canoes on New World Waters Chapter 9. The Floating Economies of Slaves and Slaveholders Chapter 10. Sacred Vessels, Sacred Waters: The Cultural Meanings of Dugout Canoes Chapter 11. A World Afloat: Mobile Slave Communities Chapter 12. The Watermen's Song: Canoemen's Aural Waterscapes Conclusion. A Sea Change in Atlantic History Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press John James Audubon
Book SynopsisIn John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, Gregory Nobles shows that one of Audubon's greatest creations was himself. Nobles explores the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so carefully left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.Trade ReviewGregory Nobles illuminates different sides of the indefatigable explorer’s personality, actions, and life. As Audubon joined his adopted country in some of the shameful aspects of its history, he also embodied much of its good: hope, perseverance, and democratic values—for whites, anyway. Despite Audubon’s contradictions, we can still admire him for his relentless quest to document the feathered residents of North America. * American Birding Association *Historian Gregory Nobles explicates the man in all his complexity. . . . Deftly dissecting the multifaceted life of the Frenchman who came to embody the American pioneer more than any natural-born citizen, Nobles balances fresh anecdotes with skepticism [and] delivers a captivating portrait of a self-taught, self-made man who out of passion to paint America's birds illustrated a country ripe with possibilities. * American History *Nobles’s John James Audubon, beautifully produced by the University of Pennsylvania Press . . . delivers, competently and fluently, what its subtitle promises—an investigation of Audubon’s personal brand, the ‘American Woodsman.' * American Historical Review *Nobles . . . skillfully provides a readable account of this self-proclaimed ‘American woodsman.’ The author deems Audubon ‘America’s first celebrity scientist,’ who went to great lengths to promote himself as an artist, an entrepreneur, and a ‘gentleman of science.’ * Choice *This welcome new contribution to Audubon studies moves us several steps forward. . . . Nobles’s thorough contextualization and discussion of the evidence render his argument persuasive and original in its depth and thoroughness. * Early American Literature *The ten chapters of this excellent book review the life and times of John James Audubon in a refreshingly honest manner, detailing Audubon’s development as a brilliant bird artist and scientist and, most importantly, his careful creation of an image of himself as an ‘American woodsman.’ There have ben many biographies of Audubon, but this one is unique in its in-depth discussion of Audubon’s character and his lifelong attempt to become a greater national figure and bird artist than his predecessor, Alexander Wilson…A very informative and delightful read. [Recommended] to anyone with an interest in art, nature, or American history. * Pennsylvania Heritage *More than a century and a half after his death, John James Audubon-flamboyant, intense, garrulous, insecure, and yet gifted beyond measure-remains one of the most compelling figures in American history. In this fine new biography, Gregory Nobles brings 'the American Woodsman' back to full, vivid life, capturing the artist's many facets as Audubon himself captured the essence of his beloved birds. * Scott Weidensaul, author of Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding *Compulsively readable and fascinating. Gregory Nobles's bottom-to-top assessment of the entire tableau of Audubon lore is terrific. * Daniel Lewis, author of The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds *An elegant book that adroitly weaves together a portrait of a man of genius and an account of the cultural and economic worlds in which he worked. * Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Creating Art, Science, and Self Chapter 1. Becoming Audubon, Becoming American Chapter 2. Hearing Birds, Heeding Their Call Chapter 3. Making an Odyssey for Art and Ornithology Chapter 4. Going into Business with The Birds of America Chapter 5. Struggling for Status in Science Chapter 6. Suffering for Science as the "American Woodsman" Chapter 7. Putting People into the Picture Chapter 8. Exploring the Ornithology of Ordinary People Chapter 9. Forging a Legacy, Finding a Discipline Chapter 10. Bringing Audubon Back to Life Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Crown Paris in the Fifties
Book SynopsisIn July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him 'le plus parisien des Américains' --the most Parisian American. Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion, and romance. Paris in the Fifties tran
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Random House USA Inc Funny in Farsi
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/MemoirThis Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner!“Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the end, what sticks with the reader is an exuberant immigrant embrace of America.”—San Francisco ChronicleIn 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’s wonderfully engaging famil
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Random House USA Inc Things Ive Been Silent about Memories of a
Book SynopsisAbsorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah MagazineIn this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).Praise for Things I've Been Silent About“Deeply felt . . . an affecting account of a family’s struggle.”
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Random House USA Inc A Lincoln A Biography
Book Synopsis“If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.”—USA TodayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARDEveryone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life. Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Le
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Random House USA Inc By Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—thei
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Random House USA Inc Gather Together in My Name
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Random House USA Inc Romantic Outlaws
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Random House USA Inc Then Again
Book SynopsisThe trade paperback edition of Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir includes a new Afterword about the bonds between mother and daughter.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times The Independent • Bookreporter The Sunday Business PostMom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK. So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in
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Random House Publishing Group Blood and Beauty
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Random House USA Inc Comfort Me with Apples
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Random House USA Inc New Life No Instructions A Memoir
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Random House USA Inc Madame Fourcades Secret War
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Random House USA Inc Orange Is the New Black Movie TieIn Edition My
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187–424—one of the millions of people who disappear “down the rabbit hole” of the American penal system. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging, Kerman’s story offers a rare look
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Random House USA Inc In the Days of Rain A Daughter a Father a Cult
Book SynopsisA father-daughter story that tells of the author’s experience growing up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult, from the author of the national bestseller GhostwalkRebecca Stott grew up in in Brighton, England, as a fourth-generation member of the Exclusive Brethren, a cult that believed the world is ruled by Satan. In this closed community, books that didn’t conform to the sect’s rules were banned, women were subservient to men and were made to dress modestly and cover their heads, and those who disobeyed the rules were punished and shamed. Yet Rebecca’s father, Roger Stott, a high-ranking Brethren minister, was a man of contradictions: he preached that the Brethren should shun the outside world, yet he kept a radio in the trunk of his car and hid copies of Yeats and Shakespeare behind the Brethren ministries. Years later, when the Stotts broke with the Brethren after a scandal involving the cult’s leader, Roger became an act
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Random House USA Inc Young Radicals In the War for American Ideals
Book SynopsisFrom the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them “Inspiring and entertaining.”—David Brooks, The New York Times “It’s not difficult to see why [Lin-Manuel] Miranda would have been attracted to [Jeremy] McCarter as a writing partner.”—The Wall Street Journal “One of the exciting new nonfiction books this summer.”—Time Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them—and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren’t abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to de
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University Press of Florida Pedro Men233ndez de Avil233s and the Conquest of
Book SynopsisPedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left a detailed and passionate account of the events leading to the establishment of America's oldest city.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the published canon of La Florida primary sources. . . . This book succeeds resoundingly in its goal to offer this new manuscript copy of Solís de Merás to historians of Florida and the wider United States." - H-Florida"A welcome contribution to sixteenth-century scholarship. . . . Offers an important perspective on a contested historical space." - Journal of Southern History
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University Press of Florida The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt
Book SynopsisOrganised by topic - government, money, art, education, class, relationships, emotions - these quotations reveal the personal thoughts Eleanor Roosevelt shared in letters and conversations alongside the strong opinions she expressed in speeches and interviews, giving evidence to her character and her beliefs.Trade Review“Clearly the definitive book of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. Albion does excellent work weeding out all the apocryphal quotes so often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, giving us only the real thing.”—Christy Regenhardt, associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume 2“Eleanor Roosevelt remains a compelling and interesting person, and these quotes give her greater voice.”—Kenneth Bindas, author of Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South
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The University Press of Kentucky Natalie Wood
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