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The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen

by Peter J. Bailey

For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen has produced...


Lincoln on Lincoln

by Paul M. Zall

" Though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. During his lifetime, Lincoln prepared two sketches of his life for the 1860 presidential race. These...


Short of the Glory

by Tracy Campbell

" Arthur Schlesinger Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinson--a political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman...


The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

by Frederica Sagor Maas

" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system....


Creeker

by Linda Scott DeRosier

Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you...


A Rose for Mrs. Miniver

by Michael Troyan

" In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles...


My Life in Prison: Memoirs of a Chinese Political Dissident

by Jiang Qisheng

In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with...


Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy

by Ann Blackman

For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover,...


Stroheim

by Arthur Lennig

Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio executives...


The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West

by Joyce Litz

Taken from the journals of a Victorian-era woman who followed her husband from New York to a small town in Montana, these reflections include birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education...


Another Day of Life

by Ryszard Kapuscinski

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging...


Ayn Rand Cult

by Jeff Walker

Despised by the intellectual establishment, Ayn Rand continues to attract many thousands of devoted followers. Her "Objectivist" movement preaches an uncompromising hard line on politics, art, sex, and psychological...


Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake

by Cori Crooks

In Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake Cori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological...


Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster

by Joanne Passet

A stunning biography of the long-neglected, firebrand author of the “bible of lesbian literature,” Jeannette Howard Foster


Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color

by Carole Ione

“From the moment I read the words [my great-grandmother] Frances Anne Rollin wrote in Boston on January 1, 1868—“The year renews its birth today with all its hopes and sorrows”—she became my beacon,...


The Stewarts

by Richard Oram

This is an accessible, illustrated history of the Stewart royal family, kings and queens of the Scots from Robert II (1371-90) to James VI (1567-1625), the last Stewart monarch to really know and understand...


Eleanor the Secret Queen: The Woman Who put Richard III on the Throne

by John Ashdown-Hill

When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his son, Edward (one of the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward's undoubtedly...


Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere & Princess Stephanie

by Jim Wilson

Born to a middle-class Viennese family and of partly Jewish descent, after marriage to (and divorce from) a German prince, Stephanie von Hohenlohe became a close confidante of Hitler, Goring, Himmler (who declared...


Falling for Eli: How I Lost Heart, Then Gained Hope Through the Love of a Singular Horse

by Nancy Shulins

In the vein of Chosen by a Horse, one woman’s true story of devastating loss and the care and love of a temperamental Thoroughbred that brought them both back to life 


The Geography of Love: A Memoir

by Glenda Burgess

“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. ...