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"Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story." - New York Times
Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda's relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald-tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
Zelda Sayre's stormy life spanned from notoriety...
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Countless mothers of brides and grooms have asked Peggy Post for a wedding planner just for them. Here it is! Whether you're helping a little or a lot, or-like most moms-are serving as combination coach, diplomat, and troubleshooter, this planner is packed with useful ideas, including:
• Planning lists especially for moms
• Questions to ask before hiring wedding professionals
• Times when a mother's tactful advice is most helpful
• A Resources...
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The true story of a heart that has been shattered, and stained. The author Wendy Sims talks about her story of surviving abuse. The actions lead her to be tortured and traumatized throughout her life. The realization of the world she lived in growing up. in the 1970s. The woman she has become today in the realization that she never let what happened to her affect the life she has worked hard to gain and live. Becoming the Champion she was meant to...
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En La historia del pianista de la mano izquierda, Manuel López nos ofrece una obra que combina amor por la música, superación personal y reflexiones profundas. Con Beethoven como guía, el autor nos muestra cómo la música puede ser un refugio y una fuente de esperanza. Una sinfonía literaria que te cautivará desde la primera nota.
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A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock's greatest talents: Prince.
Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote "3 Chains o' Gold," Prince's "rock video opera," as well as the...
7) Every Bend
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In Every Bend, Gail Butensky's photography from a variety of colorful venues is on display, as are intimate photos the artist shot outside of the music scene that she has documented for decades. This collection of photographs sequenced by Butensky to resemble a road trip with diary entries for each encampment that is presented here. A fascinating journey and a feast for the eyes.
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An area of natural beauty comprised of undulating river valleys, waterfalls, dense woodland and mountain summits, the Brecon Beacons National Park covers some 520 square miles of South and Mid Wales and includes parts of Powys, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Rhondda and Merthyr Tydfil. In this collection of landscape images Nick Jenkins showcases the remote yet accessible attraction of this ever-popular visitor location.
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I worked, toured, and recorded with Duke Ellington for the last two years of his life – a period that was the highlight of my career. In my memoirs, The Essence and Duke Ellington, I aim to convey the spirit within the heart of the jazz musician, particularly Duke Ellington. I want to show what drove him and other musicians, past and present, to play and compose this wonderful music. I also depict Duke Ellington's greatness as a human being, not...
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Traveling in Wonder is not your typical travel journal turned book-it's not even a travel guide. Instead, Traveling in Wonder: A Travel Photographer's Tales of Wanderlust reads like a letter from Autumn to the many countries she's visited, first as a student traveling abroad, then as a flight attendant, a travel agent, and more recently, a travel photographer.
With a gift for storytelling, Autumn invites the reader into what she was experiencing...
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Esta obra de la artista argentina Matilde Marín lleva a los lectores, a través de las imágenes de los faros, a transitar espacios y recuperar distintos tiempos. Marín en las fotografías ha registrado con sutileza los faros y sus luces, aguas, tierra y cielo. Quienes vean/lean el libro accederán a esos mundos, para conocerlos y explorarlos, en un viaje imaginario con diez estaciones.
Pharus. Del hemisferio Sur al Norte testimonia la materialidad...
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A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance
Ramie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend-the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works...
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Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
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In Self-Portrait of a Painter, a Triptych Memoirs, journey through the fascinating life of a remarkable woman, born to an Irish mother and Jewish father in the vibrant, working-class neighbourhood of The Rocks in Sydney. From her roots in a Socialist household committed to social justice, she defies convention to become a celebrated portrait artist. This compelling biography traces her life's arc, from her formative years to her education at Art School,...
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Dear reader,Anyone expecting a melancholic epitaph for a bygone era in my book "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" will be disappointed. I myself grew up in East Germany and spent half of my life there. There is nothing politically desirable about that time, and nothing of it should be repeated. The other half I spent in united Germany, and while some aspects could have been better, many were indeed better. One had the...
16) Poesía Barata
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Aunque quisiera expresar con la mayor sabiduría y elocuencia lo que ha significado para mi escribir este libro, no le haría justicia, por que aunque intente convencerle a usted, querido lector, de indagar en este tomo, lo único que conseguiría es desarmar la esencia de la poesía, la cual, no tiene cadenas, no tiene motivos, no tiene limites.Este libro desentraña mis adentros y los expone para darle un solo significado … Existir
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian journalist embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi—her disappearance from India, her persecution by the Nazis, and her pursuit of freedom at any cost.
On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at...
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What defines a person? Is that his color? Is that his race? Is it the environment in which he grew up? Viola Davis is a person who has proven through her life that these are not what determines a person. Viola Davis is a personality who lived to show her reply to the society that mocked her, as by conquering heights, and showed it in front of them as a strong response. In front of those who tried to ridicule Davis, she stands proudly with her record...
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If we sincerely try hard to catch our dreams, it will happen, right? Certainly. But it's probably a difficult road to cross. When we have thoughts about the moment that dream reaches our hands, we will naturally try to achieve that happiness in any way. Will Smith, an American rapper, producer, actor, longed to enter the domain of rapping, his favorite desire, like this since his school days. He had made the primary attempts to achieve his goal. Surroundings...
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Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation, and when she OD'd on heroin in October 1970, a generation's dreams crashed and burned with her. Alice Echols pushes past the legary Joplin-the red-hot mama of her own invention-as well as the familiar portrait...
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