Before he was Keys By Chuck, he was Todd — a Detroit son shaped by love, loss, survival, and the relentless voice of a mother who never stopped calling him home.
The Backpacker Murderer, Ivan Milat, and the Forest That Kept Its SecretsBetween 1989 and 1992, seven young backpackers disappeared from the Hume Highway in New South Wales.
A lively and imaginative exploration of the career and music of the Rocket ManElton John is not only "e;still standing,"e; he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning survivor of the great era of pop and rock music that he helped to shape during his six decades in the music industry.
The Upside of Being Down shows the winding paths that are the thoughts that go through one's mind, and the debilitating symptoms that come alight with Anorexia Nervosa.
The inside stories of the Apollo program and the live of astronauts, as told to the author by the men themselves-with a forward by astronaut Charlie Duke.
Traveling over violent Atlantic Ocean storms, the pilgrims eventually land at Plymouth Rock and this particular family begins its first lineage of the New World.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, black and mixed-race women from across the globe came together in Paris and New York to engage in an artistic, sexual, intellectual, and political revolution -the ultimate flapper girls, they molded and shaped Western avant-garde thought and nascent ideas about race, sexuality, and left-wing politics, as well as the rapidly changing, increasingly visible role of women in modern life.
The first biography of arguably the most influential gospel artist of the 20th century, brought to life through interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andrae Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction.
An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist and distinguished speaker.
An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.
The first biography of a great American composer of the cinema ageJohn Williams is one of the most important film composers of all time, having almost singlehandedly revived the Hollywood symphonic scoring tradition and helped restore the livelihood of American orchestras through the popularity of film music programming.
The first biography of arguably the most influential gospel artist of the 20th century, brought to life through interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andrae Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction.
WINNER of 75th Nation al Jew ish Book Award: BiographyFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2026 FIVE STARS Magnificent Telegraph Compulsively readable Financial Times Gripping and timely The Times'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian JungerTHE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEERThe true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.
Entre 1947 y 1952, un grupo de jóvenes desafiantes recorría la noche de Ciudad de México, decidido a interrogar todo cuanto existía entre el cielo y la tierra.
A traves de conversaciones sinceras y relatos atravesados por la experiencia, este libro no busca explicar como hicieron su fortuna, sino mostrar quienes son cuando baja el telon.
A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry.
A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry.
