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COMPLICATED SHADOWS: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ELVIS COSTELLO
Written by Thomson, Graeme
Elvis Costello is undoubtedly one of the most important and challenging musicians of the last thirty years. Complicated Shadows paints a detailed portrait of an intensely private, complex, and creatively restless individual.
ITALIAN NEIGHBORS
Written by Parks, Tim
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy.
BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA
Written by Saramago, José
From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.
GAUGUIN
Written by Thomson, Belinda
Making extensive use of new research and material, Belinda Thomson's incisive text gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most original artists of the late nineteenth century.
ARTEMISIA
Written by Lapierre, Alexandra
An international best-seller, Alexandra Lapierre's Artemisia sweeps us through the streets once frequented by Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Van Dyck and into the studios of artists who used their daggers as efficiently as their brushes. Born in the early 1600s when artists were the celebrities of the day, Artemisia was apprenticed to her father, the artist Orazio Gentileschi, at an early age.
GOLDEN AGE OF HANDBUILT BICYCLES: CRAFTSMANSHIP, ELEGANCE, AND FUNCTION
Written by Heine, Jan
The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles is a celebration of the design history and craftsmanship behind this simple but efficient two-wheeled vehicle. Featuring fifty classic models built by hand, this book unveils the bicycle's technical evolution within a historical context.
DIANA ROSS: GOING BACK (VINTAGE)
Written by Ross, Diana
Chronicles the life of singer and actress Diana Ross through text and pictures by photographers including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, and Mark Abrams.
HOUSE OF MORGAN: AN AMERICAN BANKING DYNASTY AND THE RISE OF MODERN FINANCE
Written by Chernow, Ron
Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P.
STALIN'S ENGLISHMAN: GUY BURGESS, THE COLD WAR, AND THE CAMBRIDGE SPY RING
Written by Lownie, Andrew
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S FALLINGWATER
Written by Stoller, Ezra
These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture, as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller.
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