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Before The Legend

In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, a new biography of the reggae master provides a revealing glimpse of the musician's private side, drawing on interviews with family, friends, and...

Kingdom of Fear

The author describes his early days as a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid, his law-breaking journalism, his campaign for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, and his experience in the riots at the De...

Living on Luck

Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.

Roads

As he crisscrosses America'driving in search of the present, the past, and himself'Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them....

Chekhov

Rosamund Bartlett is steeped in Chekhov's writings, having worked as a translator and lecturer on the culture and history of nineteenth-century Russia. She has written not simply another biography of...

Searching for Beauty

A fascinating portrait of the Standard Oil heirerss and legendary American trendsetter Millicent RogersNobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whi...

The Year of Magical Thinking

"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you . . ."In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in...

The Garden of Eros

The Garden of Eros brings to life some of last century's leading cultural figures, who shaped our modern thinking and defined the tastes of an entire generation, changing for ever the way we look at l...

Let It Come Down

Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his mac...

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Emotionally stalled after losing her mother and suffering a miscarriage, childlike Kitty observes her world through a series of high and low moods, struggles to uncover childhood secrets, and finds th...

Northanger Abbey

When Trumpets Call

From the author of the acclaimed Five of Hearts, this highly praised, spell-binding biography is the definitive account of TR's final decade, the most poignant -- and in some ways, the most heroic --...