DescriptionMarion Winik, one of the country's best-known personal essayists, believes in telling the truth. Her award-winning personal essays tell secrets about herself and describe the raw power of relationships, experiences, and passions, from her husband's suicid…
DescriptionThis is the true story of how a lifelong search for love was fulfilled by divine revelation. In a sacred demonstration, an enlightened master revealed the secret to finding love's treasure. The encounter could be called "other worldly" in the sense that t…
DescriptionJohn Ray Horn was once Sierra Lane, hero of a series of cheap westerns. Now he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. A chance encounter brings Horn into contact with an old flame, movie actress Rose Galen. Now, Rose is a sad, shattered, drink-sodden creature. Hoping to uncover her long-held secret, Horn goes to her shabby rooming house. He finds her strangled. With the aid of Mad Crow he sets out to find her killer, and her secret. His search takes him back into the Hollywood of the 1920s, a terrible act and a secret that would only begin to unravel after Rose Galen took her last tortured breath.
DescriptionMaster Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists. From Florence and Pisa to Siena and Rome, Cellini portrays a tumultuous period - the age of Galileo, Michelangelo and the de Medicis - with an artist's eye for detail and a curmudgeon's propensity for criticism. Cellini, according to himself, lived a very full life, and his account of his exploits, though grandiloquent and somewhat suspect, is always entertaining. Historians have considered this work to be a prime example of the emergence of modern individualism during the Renaissance. Translated by John Addington Symonds.
DescriptionMotor mouth. Loud Mouth. Tubby DJ. Overpaid ego. What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio'? In The Gospel According to Chris Moyles, Chris dissects the world around him and tackles all sorts of subjects; from interviewing the world's most famous celebrities, to trying to find a parking space in his own street. But you'll also get to meet his family and friends and learn about how he went from teenage DJ on a psychiatric hospital radio show to the nation's favourite breakfast show DJ on Radio One. His is a life lived on and off the air. And this book is a combination of both. It's funny, it's honest and it's just like him! Ego? What ego?
DescriptionThe definitive biography of one of America's greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf . Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society. Her life was fed by nonliterary enthusiasms as well: her fabled houses and gardens and the culture of the Old World, which she never tired of absorbing. Yet intimacy eluded her. With profound empathy and insight, Lee brilliantly interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age. In its revelation of both the woman and the writer, Edith Wharton is a landmark biography.
DescriptionIn 1967, Indiana University graduate student Robert Waller was playing guitar in a campus coffeehouse when he met 18-year-old Jana St. James. At first, they were just friends with mutual interests, but over the next 10 months they became lovers, despite Waller's 7-year marriage. In 1993, St. James began to read Waller's book, The Bridges of Madison County, and was struck by the similarities to her memories; were they still alive for Waller, too? Now, St. James shares the heart-wrenching details of their journey from innocent friends to gentle afternoons as lovers - and the sad, inevitable end of their relationship.
DescriptionI tell you what, right, I can guarantee you're going to get some real juicy bits of Gorillaz info...It's all in there. So place your order up front kids, this book going to be a scorcher! -Gorillaz bass-slayer Murdoc Nicalls This is the full story of Gorillaz: Murdoc, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs, told for the first time. It includes the lowdown on their motley crew of collaborators, from Ike Turner to Sean Ryder, and accounts of the gigs, the movie, the videos, and the Web site, including the story on Kong Studios, their legendary HQ. An essential listen for their legion of fans.
DescriptionBefore A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a 22-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with children of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the story of what happened when, 30…
DescriptionHere is the incredible adventure of a Wild Bunch of British mercenaries in Bosnia, an insiders gripping account of the war that goes far beyond what we read in the newspapers. Equally courageous, equally deadly, the British mercenaries in Bosnia have a…
