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• The Private Lives of the Impressionists
  
  Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and s...
• Lee Krasner: A Biography
  
  Lee Krasner is best known as the artist-wife of Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist painter. Yet in this riveting new biography, the first full-length account of her colorful life, distinguished art historian Gail Levin challenges previous portrayals of Krasner, and shows that she ...

  • ISBN13: 9780061845253
  • Condition: New
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
  
  Widely recognized as West's most distinguished nonfiction work, this book describes the author's travels to Yugoslavia with her husband in 1937--a journey overshadowed by the growing inevitability of the Second World War.
• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
  
  Ross King has a knack for explaining complicated processes in a manner that is not only lucid but downright intriguing. . . . Fascinating." (Los Angeles Times) By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous sta...

  • ISBN13: 9780142000151
  • Condition: New
• My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
  
  There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz died, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz exchanged over 5,000 lett...
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
  
  Okay, so at least you're interested enough to pick up this book and look inside. I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.
• Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
  
  A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:Q: State your name and profession.KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber.Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story?KG: I had ...

  • ISBN13: 9780345518569
  • Condition: New
• Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy - A Lost Generation Love Story
  
  The real-life models for F. Scott Fitzgerald's characters Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender is the Night, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of social and artistic life for the likes of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, and other famous names during the 1920s.
• The Help (Movie Tie-In)
  
  Unabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 17 hoursThe book everyone is falling in love with . . .
• Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me (A Chelsea Handler Book/Borderline Amazing Publishing)
  
  "My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate."--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang It's no lie: Chelsea Handler lo...
• No One Here Gets Out Alive
  
  Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity: singer, philosopher, poet, delinquentthe brilliant, charis-matic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed the bounds of reality to see what would happen.

  • ISBN13: 9780446697330
  • Condition: New
• The Story of My Life
  
  The Story of My Life is Helen Keller's own account of how she miraculously triumphed over blindness and deafness-and became one of the most inspiring and intriguing figures of our time.
• Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid
  
  The New York Times bestseller One of America's most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long.

  • ISBN13: 9780452295643
  • Condition: Used - Very Good
• The Way I Am
  
  Chart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona...
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Dover Thrift Editions)
  
  Eleven of the best and most popular tales of the immortal sleuth include "Silver Blaze," concerning the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time"; "The Greek Interpreter," starring Holmes' even more formidable brother, Mycroft; and "The Final Problem," the detective's notorious confrontation w...

  • ISBN13: 9780486477831
  • Condition: New
• Out on a Limb
  
  Her most controversial book is one you will never forget.  An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self.  An intense, clandestine l...
• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)
  
  The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature ...
• Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
  
  "Here, in my own words and as I remember them, are my cherished stories about a lifetime of fun and love and laughter...I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty." --Elizabeth Taylor She has mesmerized ...
• Lord of the Dance
  
  As the spirited step dancer and international star of Riverdance, Michael Flatley shattered records, silenced doubters, revolutionized an ancient dance form, and brought joy to millions of people worldwide.

  • ISBN13: 9780743293006
  • Condition: New
• Just One More Thing
  
  In Just One More Thing, Peter Falk — award-winning actor — takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life. Starting in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau, Falk was no more successful than at an earlier attempt to work with the...
• Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography
  
  A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eyeA teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunde...
• Diary of Frida Kahlo (Abradale Books)
  
  Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) kept a remarkable diary revealing the passion and strength of the final ten years of her anguished life. This volume is a facsimile which includes her own brightly coloured paintings and drawings.
• Harpo Speaks!
  
  "This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother.

  • Published by Limelight Editions 482 Pages
  • by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber
• Everyday Matters
  
  In the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married long. Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell.
• Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
  
  When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend to be honeymooning with her father in order to upgrade to first class.

  • ISBN13: 9781416596363
  • Condition: New
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  
  The New York Times bestseller from Harold Bloom...A National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly best book of the year."The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer."--Geoffrey O'Brien, New York ...
• The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
  
  As an aspiring screenwriter, you dream of one day seeing the fruits of your vision splashed across the big screen. Whether you believe great screenwriters are made or born, you'll be on the fast track to finding your Muse after tuning in to the secrets of fourteen of Tinseltown's top screenwriters, ...
• Here's the Story
  
  Marcia Brady had it all - style, looks, boys, brains and talent. No wonder Jan was jealous! Young woman across the generations cheered on as Marcia ran for student president and took her drivers test.
• Magical Thinking: True Stories
  
  From the number-one bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burroughs's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:"Yes, you...
• Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
  
  Forget everything you thought you knew about the insane world of professional wrestling. The sixth son of legendary Canadian wrestling promoter Stu Hart, Bret Hart was born into wrestling royalty.