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Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much. Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene, circulated among feminists and the countercultural underground, charged men money for conversation, despised "daddy's girls," and outlined a vision for radical...
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A New York Times Notable Book: A revealing look at the famous twentieth-century children's author who brought us The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Few writers have had the enduring cultural influence of Roald Dahl, who inspired generations of loyal readers. Acclaimed biographer Jeremy Treglown cuts no corners in humanizing this longstanding immortal of juvenile fiction. Roald Dahl explores this master of children's literature from childhood-focusing...
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Née en mars 1993, Delphine, de son nom de plume Pythna, est une jeune femme dotée d'une sensibilité à fleur de peau. Elle utilise l'écriture et la peinture comme exutoires. Elle aime peindre des tableaux que nous pourrions dire spirituels et symboliques. Diagnostiquée schizophrène par ses psychiatres, Pythna a écrit une autobiographie décrivant sa vie. Ce livre audio témoigne de cette maladie mal connue du public. Elle enchaînera sur des...
24) The Hockneys
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'The most charming… portrait of this ever-popular artist… so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour… This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher's and hikes among the hedgerows under swallow-strewn skies.' The Telegraph'Never worry what the neighbours think' was the philosophy that Kenneth Hockney used to inspire...
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The Feminist Press brings back into print a literary gem. And the Bridge Is Love is a timeless collection of life stories about growing up in a Jewish family in Detroit during the Depression and becoming a writer in Washington, DC. The essays range from one on a friend who is dying to a hilarious account of binge eating at a wedding. In between these two poles is a world both modern and old-fashioned, vivid, yet vanishing.
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Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity.
In Madame Tussaud, Kate Berridge tells...
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Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard-a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France-in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.
Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper's daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court-only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. While she defied societal barriers to become a member of the exclusive...
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From the legendary producer and author of The Kid Stays in the Picture-one of the greatest Hollywood memoirs ever written-comes a long-awaited second work with all the elements of a star-studded blockbuster: glamour and conflict, giddy highs and near-fatal lows, struggle and perseverance, tragedy and triumph.
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At last, the first memoir from a Kennedy family member-an inspirational, candid, and explosive personal story sure to be one of the most sensational bestsellers of the year
Christopher Kennedy Lawson was born to enormous privilege. But with fame, money, and power came tragedy and heartbreak. In this clear-eyed, sensitive, and compulsively readable autobiography, he breaks his family's long-held silence to a rare glimpse into the exclusive worlds...
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Nous sommes tous la somme de nos rencontres. Après avoir eu un tête-à-tête avec Oprah Winfrey et Michelle Obama, Caroline vous dira que chaque personne qui a croisé votre route a eu un impact, souvent positif. Mais aussi que de certaines rencontres naissent des croyances et des blocages qui nous empêchent (sans le savoir) d'avancer. À travers une centaine de petites histoires personnelles, Caroline vous invite à la réflexion sur votre quête...
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No Lifeguard on Duty is the ultimate memoir of sex, drugs, rock & roll, and redemption from modeling icon Janice Dickinson. From her supermodel glory days with Gia Carangi and Christie Brinkley to nights with Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone; from a dizzying drug and alcohol habit to three failed marriages; from cavorting around the globe to struggling to make it in Los Angeles as a working mom on America's Next Top Model and...
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"Souvenirs & confidences - Volume II" est un ensemble de réactions au sujet de l'acharnement de la star Claude François et de ses relations avec ses paires du milieu artistique. De nombreuses opinions ont été émises sur le surnommé « Cloclo », aussi bien de son vivant qu'après sa disparition, provenant d'une variété de personnalités. Certaines l'adulaient, d'autres le méprisaient. Durant sa carrière, l'artiste a démontré une éthique...
33) The Astors
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The Astors is a comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent and influential families in American history. The Astors were a wealthy and powerful family who made their fortune in the fur trade and real estate, and went on to become one of the most influential families in New York City and beyond. This book traces the history of the Astor family from its humble beginnings in Germany to its rise to prominence in America and explores the lives...
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A collection of surprising revelations and quirky stories about one of the most amazing people who ever lived.
This engaging volume reveals Leonardo da Vinci's phenomenal accomplishments: mathematical discoveries, investigations of the secrets of the human body, the invention of a robot...and even a plan to divert Italy's Arno River.
Packed with fascinating facts, the book also covers biographical details, modern reflections on da Vinci's legacy,...
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Pendant près de mille jours, Victor Hugo a sillonné la Belgique de long en large. Comme touriste d'abord, attiré par ce jeune État indépendant. Comme proscrit ensuite, fuyant le régime de Napoléon III qu'il déteste. La Belgique et lui, c'est une histoire d'amour. Une histoire d'amour qui se termine mal, mais une histoire riche. Suivre Victor Hugo dans ses errances belges, c'est se plonger dans la vie de ce pays en pleine révolution industrielle,...
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"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better than anyone since Jim Carroll. With the flick of his enviable pen, he can summarize childhood thus: 'My very first utterance in life was not a single word, but a sentence. It was, 'Don't do that.'... Russell Brand has a compelling story." - New York Times Book Review
The gleeful and...
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Essays, art, and exercises with "many gems that will brighten anyone's fearful mind," from the author of the creativity classic Writing Down the Bones (The Taos News).
Known as an author and sought-after writing teacher, Natalie Goldberg is also a painter whose work has been shown widely and included in prominent collections. In Living Color, she expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration, and reminds us that our explorations are not limited...
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Rivers in the Desert is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. Davis chronicles Mulholland's...
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The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Foreword by Steve Martin
Introduction by Jarrett Earnest
When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay "The Art of Dying" in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his oncologist had given him six months to live, but his experimental treatment was...
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A biography of the artist examining his complex relationship with the American West and how he expressed his imagination.
Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist's imagination and how it expressed itself. Ben Merchant Vorpahl considers all the dimensions of Remington's...
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