With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history.
A classic work on the African-American experience is revised for the nineties with essays reflecting the concerns of black children from the last three decades and commentary from today's sports stars, politicians, and inner-city gang members.
For more than twenty years, Lorri Goddard-Clark has colored the hair of people from all walks of lifeeveryone from teachers and homemakers to some of the most famous heads in Hollywood.
From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugne Schueller, creator of LOral.
This acclaimed biography of the Gilded Age's Queen of Wall Street is "e;a must-read for all aspiring moguls"e; (Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School).
A riveting tale of her familys experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority.
Danny is back with more hilarious true-life stories of hopeless modern manhoodA husband and now a new father, Danny Wallace is a man who struggles to understand the unspoken rules of society.
'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver SacksAn Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed.
Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy.
**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you.
In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns.
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield.
Strong, sassy, always surprisingand titled after a Saturday Night Live Weekend Update monologue by Tina FeyBitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter all while trying to answer the question, can a strong, single, and successful black woman ever find love?
The author of the phenomenally popular Modern Girls Guide to Life, Jane Buckingham is back with The Modern Girls Guide to Sticky Situations, a helpful handbook for surviving headaches, pickles, jams, and everyday emergencies.
In this poignant meditation on the strength and fragility of female friendship, Mariana Pasternak chronicles her life-defining relationship with Martha Stewart, its tragic demise, and its lessons for us all.
New York career woman Stacey Knight marries James Makepeace just as she learns he's been offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run a major Hollywood studio.
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy's odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovannis adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1971.
From Reggie Fieldy Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity.
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