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by Kate Tempest
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Kate Tempest's powerful new narrative poem--set to music on her album of the same title--illuminates the lives of a single city street, creating an electric, humming human symphony.
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release...
Playing Scared
A History and Memoir of Stage Fright
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**This cultural history and memoir of stage fright will resonate with anyone terrified of speaking or performing in public.**Stage fright is one of the human psyche's deepest fears, challenging actors, musicians, professional athletes, and people from all walks of life. Surveys in the United States...
Swans and Pistols
Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Léon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model...
An Emergency in Slow Motion
The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner...
Terra Incognita
A Novel of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
It is spring in the year of 118, and Hadrian has been Emperor of Rome for less than a year. After getting involved with the murders of local prostitutes in the town of Deva, Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town, so has volunteered for a posting with the Army on the volatile border where...
Mr. Mojo
A Biography of Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists, and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub at only twenty-seven, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of the Doors, Morrison was...
Why Write?
A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
**From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring study of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.
Why write?
Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their...
A Romance on Three Legs
Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public...
Jack Holmes and His Friend
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel.
Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with...
by Randi Reisfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Ever since her police officer father was killed a few months ago, Grace Abernathy hasn't wanted to do much of anything. She's pulled away from her friends, her grades are plummeting . . . it's a problem. The last thing Grace wants is to be dragged into her older sister Regan's plan to train a shelter...
by Celia Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Witty and enchanting, the second novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Times bestselling author of Not Quite Nice follows the hilarious exploits of retired expats in the South of France
Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red-carpets, lies the...
Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You
The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky . . . Taylor reveals a national identity forged from the innocence we claim to have lost but never had in the first place.†? --Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville
When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver,and The...
History of the Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father, Virgil. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from...
If Walls Could Talk
An Intimate History of the Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix.
"Worsley is a thoughtful, charming, often hilarious guide to life as it was lived, from the mundane to the...