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Memories
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $27.00
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Christopher Plummer
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $29.95
A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today’s greatest living actors.
He was born a Canadian on a Friday the thirteenth in 1929—the year of the Crash. His boyhood was one of privilege: an ancestor was a Governor General; his great-grandfather Sir John Abbott was...
A Spiritual Confession
Written by Anne Rice
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith.
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.
And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of...
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only...
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The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $26.95
For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us...
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How I Changed My Fattitude
Written by Carol Lay
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $18.00
Here’s the skinny: After a lifetime of yo-yo dieting with pills, hypnosis, and ill-informed half-measures, Carol Lay finally shed her excess pounds and kept them off. Now this California cartoonist shares her experiences in a funny, genuine, and eye-popping graphic memoir that tells Carol’s story and shows you how you can... Read more >
An American Movie Master
Written by Michael Sragow
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $40.00
The full-length, definitive biography of the legendary director of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director in Hollywood’s golden age, renowned for his ability to make films across an astounding range of genres–westerns, earthy sexual dramas, family entertainment, screwball comedies, buddy pictures, romances... Read more >
A Life
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $45.00
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He was a leader of the modernist...
Discover One Young Family's Search for a Simpler Life . . . Four Seasons of Living in the Year 1900
Written by Logan Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
Logan Ward and his wife, Heather, were prototypical New Yorkers circa 2000: their lives steeped in ambition, work, and stress. Feeling their souls grow numb, wanting their toddler son to see the stars at night, the Wards made a plan. They would return to their native South, find a farm, and... Read more >
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $27.50
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him!
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park... Read more >
