Model Number: BBR9780440336129DLDA
Author: Masters, Alexander
In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416534105DLDA
Author: Maraniss, David
On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0060895888DLDA
Author: Prose, Francine
Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed -- street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged -- was a profound and revolutionary ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743424166DLDA
Author: Richmond, Lewis
For Lewis Richmond, a 52-year-old Buddhist teacher, a devastating brain injury brought a hard journey to recovery. Love, courage, and the Buddhist teachings that sustained him throughout his adult life guided him back to wellness -- and to rebirth and transformation. Here is one man's acceptance and ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0060770252DLDA
Author: Halliday, E. M.
E-book extra: Jefferson's very private letter to Maria Cosway, My Head and My Heart Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character -- famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for thirty ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743271947DLDA
Author: Wolf, Naomi
Bestselling author Naomi Wolf was brought up to believe that happiness is something that can be taught -- and learned. In this magical book, Naomi shares the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way, and that personal ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0061208167DLDA
Author: Hitchens, Christopher
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years ...more »
Model Number: BBR0767918924DLDA
Author: WALTON, ANTHONY
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers , BROTHERS IN ARMS recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st "Black Panthers," the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family friend ...more »
Model Number: BBHC006000892XDLDA
Author: Stark, Steven D.
Here they are -- John, Paul, George, Ringo -- the band that inspired and changed popular culture forever. In this revealing and provocative new account, Steven D. Stark puts their impact into unique perspective by revealing both the personal details and the larger events that made them into the twentieth ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780767926317DLDA
Author: Bryson, Bill
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny." Some say that ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0060895500DLDA
Author: Lawford, Christopher Kennedy
Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of the rich and famous of both Washington politics and the Hollywood elite. A triumphantly inspiring memoir, the first ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0060760338DLDA
Author: Patchett, Ann
What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction ...more »