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Herbie Hancock

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In "Herbie Hancock" the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with his ongoing exploration of different musica...

Kyle, Chris / Scott Mcewen / Jim Defelice

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United States military, any branch, from 1776 to present. Nicknamed "The Legend" by his fellow SEALS, Kyle's service in Iraq and Afghani...

Bragg, Rick

For nearly sixty years, Jerry Lee Lewis has been a monumental figure in American life. The wildest and most dangerous of the early rock and rollers, he electrified the world with hit records such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Breathless." His music was raucous, exuberant, slyly sexual; his wailing vocals were grounded by the locomotive force of ...

Hunt, Nick

"Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe. . . . So many memorable encounters with people and places! A book about gifts, modernity, endurance and landscape, it represents a fine addition to the literature of the leg."--Robert Macfarlane, award-winning travel writer, author of "The Wild Plac...

Wang, Val

A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe--until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many ...

Kasischke, Lou

Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense m...

Safran, John

An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came t...

Robert Baer

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict--one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been drama...

Gildiner, Catherine

Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate. After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from...

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

Born in Spain and raised by a struggling single mother, Lisa Lovatt-Smith became an editor at British "Vogue" at nineteen, the youngest in Conde Nast history. She helped launch Spanish "Vogue" and partied across Europe with celebrities, fashion designers, photographers, and supermodels. By her thirties, Lisa has her dream career and a glamorous life in Paris, but when her adopt...

Domingo Martínez Hedmann

With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiance Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. ...

Golinkin, Lev

A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adul...

Kyle, Chris

Kyle, Chris

Miguel Ángel Campodónico.

La relevancia de la figura de José "Pepe" Mujica no ha parado de crecer y despertar admiración en los últimos años desde que en 1999 se publicó en Uruguay la primera edición del libro de Campodónico. Hacía cuatro años ya que el viejo tupamaro era diputado en el Parlamento de Uruguay y faltaban diez años para que ganara las elecciones presidenciales; en ese momento, «había adqui...

Samet, Elizabeth D

As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace Elizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed "Soldier's Heart," came to question her settled understanding of post-9/11 America as a clear arc from peace to war. Over...

Toumani, Meline

Short, Martin

In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian."Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toron...

Jefferies, Richard

"The Williamses anchor Jefferies' profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding."--"BOOKLIST," starred review "Brooke and Terry give a sense of cohesion to Jefferies's writing, and leave readers with much to ponder about our own chaotic, fast-paced, work-obsessed world."--"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY" "This perfect little pa...

Booth, James

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research ...

James Gavin

From the author of the "definitive" ("Vanity Fair") biography of Lena Horne, "Stormy Weather," comes a brilliantly written portrait of recording artist and musical legend Peggy Lee. ""She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..."" Miss Peggy Lee cast a spell when she sang. She purred so intimately in nightclubs that couples clasped hands an...

Friedland, Roger

As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland was worried. The thing that most bothered him was not the erotic heat of America's youth culture, but the lovelessness of its sex. Offered the chance to live and teach in Rome, Roger and his wife, Debra, seized the opportunity to take their family to live in a city where love is alive, family bonds hold, ...

Baram, Marcus

Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg" provide a time capsule for a decade marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and racism. While he was exa...

Monika Czernin

Además de un artista genial, y aunque se le tuvo por calculador, tacaño y dominante, Picasso fue también un hombre generoso y un amigo atento. Este libro trata de la inusual y estrecha amistad que unió al barbero Eugenio Arias y al pintor desde 1947 hasta la muerte de Picasso en 1973. Cuando Picasso se trasladó junto a Françoise Gilot y sus hijos Claude y Paloma a Vallauris, pu...

Macniven, Ian S

"Biography of James Laughlin, founder of the publishing house New Directions, and one of the most important advocates for modernist and experimental literature"-...

Hadlow, Janice

"The Times" Best Books of the Year "The Sunday Times" Best Books of the Year "The New Statesman" Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett "BBC History Magazine" Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport "A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal sacrifice is an absolute page-turner." --Amanda Foreman, author of "Georgiana:...

Brabner, Joyce / Dobbins, Ray

Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Graphic NovelA "Village Voice" Best Graphic Novel of 2014 The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabner's "Second Avenue Caper" is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found themselves on the front lines in the fight against AIDS.Struggling to understa...

Olsen, Mary Kate / Olsen, Ashley

The Olsen sisters take readers on a journey through their celebrated young lives, pausing to reflect on what has helped shape them into who they are today. "Influence" covers Mary-Kate and Ashley's interest in fashion, environment, art, and giving back. Photos throughout. ...

Louis Fischer

Amy Poehler

Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on ...