Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

“. . . [strips] away the mythological haze surrounding one of our most important founding fathers.” 

You do not have to be a fashionista to recognize the name of Jimmy Choo, the company that put the bling into footwear.

One cold winter night in 1960, Susan Cheever, then 17 years old, found herself in the back seat of her father John’s car as they drove toward Manhattan from her suburban Westchester County girls’ s

The first and most obvious feature of this book is its grand scale. This is most definitely not a book with which to curl up in bed with to get lulled off to sleep.

The title “poet of the century” may not have the same impact when applied to the 20th century that it did back in the 18th, but if there was a poet worthy of the honorific, it was W. H.

This biography, about a man whose name means literally “Gabriel of the Annunciation,” shines a light on one of Italy’s foremost poets and literary figures, as well as being a “preacher of war.”

“. . . a brisk, short, and informative book . . .”

“. . . Carla Kaplan has given us and history a great gift.”

“‘a quiet story of a quiet life of quiet sorrow and quieter opinions.’”

Readers already familiar with David Plante’s elegant prose and with his previous work The Pure Lover will already know the name Nikos Stangos, Mr.

Annick Cojean documents certain abuses of power during the Gaddafi regime in Libya—a period of more than 40 years.

“. . . an evocative, well-written, haunting story.”