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Bella: My Life in Food

Capote's Women - A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

"Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered...

Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home

My Kitchen Year - 136 Recipes That Saved My Life: A Cookbook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men's Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Pu...

Saul Bass - Anatomy of Film Design

This long-overdue book sheds light on the creative process of the undisputed master of film title design--a man whose multidimensional ta...

Sontag - Her Life and Work

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named...

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl - Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico's Ancient Civilizations

The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857¿1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec cosmology and mastery ...

"My Black Skin: Lebensreisen" - "My Black Skin" stellt Persönlichkeiten vor, die es in ihrem Leben weit gebracht haben. Diese Menschen machen Mut und motivieren. Sie sind ein Vorbild für alle, die noch am Anfang ihres Lebensweges stehen.- Dr. Peter Tschentscher, Bürgermeister-Hamburg.

In jedem Menschen steckt ein Antrieb und der Wunsch, im Leben etwas zu erreichen. In uns allen steckt eine Kraft, die Ja sagt, nach vorn ...

This Will All Be Over Soon - A Memoir

A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-af...

Jazz Me Blues - The Autobiography of Chris Barber

Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he formed in 1952 and has led continuously ...

Pat in the City - My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture?bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication ...

Spare

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the ...

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan - General, United States Army - Vol. 1

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan - General, United States Army - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition o...

... und immer eine Prise Anarchie / ... and always a Touch of Anarchy - Manfred Stelzer und seine Filme / Manfred Stelzer and his Films

Squatters and fare dodgers, super jams and Chinese in Bavaria, crime thrillers without dead bodies and, time and again, whimsical comedie...

Born in Blackness - Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, ...

Letters to Woodburn Harris and Others

Gin and Phonics - My Journey Through Middle-Class Motherhood (Via the Occasional Pub)

`I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I¿d have to say that it¿s definitely the kids.¿

Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted

Astor - The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

From Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, the #1 New York Times bestselling duo who brought you VANDERBILT, a riveting new history of the ...

Madly, Deeply - The Diaries of Alan Rickman

An international bestseller One of Barnes & Noble's Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2022 Selected by the Guardian as one of the best books ...

Fame - Lady Gaga Comic Book Omnibus

The sold out comic book series Fame Lady Gaga has spun off three issues. Now for the 1st time you will get them all together in one Omnib...

Andaza - A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen

Andaza is a beguiling memoir of growing up around food as a Pakistani woman - the struggles, the expectations, the joys, the flavours - a...

The Stories We Tell - Every Piece of Your Story Matters

'I thought I'd found myself in a world that, in order for me to fit into it, I had to fold myself up and break myself down. But it's a ti...

The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens

Great Diaries - The world's most remarkable diaries, journals, notebooks, and letters

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries...

Whole Earth - The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

From one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from t...

Don't Forget Us Here - Lost and Found at Guantanamo

"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntâanamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of pl...

The Other Side of the Coin. Platinum Jubilee Edition - The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

Platinum Jubilee edition `Full of gems ¿ Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown¿ Daily Telegraph `Entertaining and beautifully illustrated¿...

Behind the Crown - My Life Photographing the Royal Family

For 45 years I¿ve chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I¿ve witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their la...

The Lady Di Look Book - What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes

Fashion writer Eloise Moran has studied thousands of pictures of Princess Diana over the past few years. Looking carefully at Diana's clo...

The Queen's Marriage

This inside story of the Queen's marriage contains previously undisclosed revelations, drawing on interviews with insider sources.

Novel Houses - Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings

The Rebel's Clinic - The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in De Gaulle's army for the libera...

Things Seen

Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in Lillebonne, France. Her autobiographical narrative, La Place,won the Prix Renaudot, and her books, A Wom...

Osip Mandelstam - A Biography

The personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book

The Light We Carry - Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief tha...

My Great Arab Melancholy

Award-winning graphic history of the modern Arab world, combining travelogue, memoir, and gorgeous full-color art

Saved - A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Dispatches from the Edge meets In an Instant in this dramatic memoir of war, family, resilience, and recovery from Benjamin Hall, the Fox...

A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico Morelli

Conductors On The Yellow Label [Deutsche Grammophon]. 8 Discographies. Fritz Lehmann, Ferdinand Leitner, Ferenc Fricsay, Eugen Jochum, Leopold Ludwig, Artur Rother, Franz Konwitschny, Igor Markevitch. [1998].

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel...

Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family - A Glorious Illustrated History

A magnificent tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and a celebration of the British royal family. This book is a stunning...

Agony to Agony

Patrick Yay documented the modern Burmese history through his personal experience, the truth nothing but the Truth for the sake of the wo...

Play, Stop, Rewind and Replay

Play, Stop, Rewind and Replay candidly recounts the early years of the life of musician Roland Goerzen as he attempts to find his feet in...

Anna - The Biography

This biography of the legendary fashion journalist and media mogul follows her journey from the trendy fashion scene of swinging 1960s Lo...

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - A Memoir

The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had...

Belonging - A German Reckons with Home and History

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yo...

And Don't F*ck It Up - An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)

"The four-time winner of the Emmy for outstanding reality series, RuPaul's Drag Race never set out to win over conventional America or cl...

A Living Remedy - A Memoir

From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief?a daughter's search to unders...

Lessons - My Path to a Meaningful Life

The instant New York Times bestseller Supermodel and philanthropist Gisele Bündchen shares personal stories, insights, and photos to expl...

The Hungry Season - A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

"In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is 'a deeply reported story of aspiration and desperation' (Kirkus...

Rough Sleepers - Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program...

The Night Parade - A Speculative Memoir

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that ...

The French Ingredient - Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir

"In this inspiring, poignant, and delicious memoir, the founder of France's largest nonprofessional culinary institute traces her journey...

The 2% Way - How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the Nfl, and Neurosurgery

Dr. Myron Rolle--neurosurgery resident, Rhodes Scholar, former NFL player--shares how the strong work ethic, faith, and family values ins...

Lessons from the Edge - A Memoir

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine?a pioneering diplomat who spe...

You're That Bitch - & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself

?This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud.??Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one of the...

Bellow - A Biography

With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of ...

Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers 'The...

Quentin Tarantino - Interviews

Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin ...