For the last 15 years of Jascha Heifetz's life, Ayke Agus was his closest companion. She came to him as a violin student in his master class at the University of Southern California, but he singled...więcej »
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable precocity in his early interests in literature and science. Ill-health dogg...więcej »
One of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of postwar opera, Christa Ludwig recalls her long and lustrous career singing for two generations of adoring audiences, under the batons of such conductors as Kle...więcej »
In this fresh, amusing, and inspirational autobiography, Mark Holden shines the light on the power of reinvention and provides an intriguing account of a variegated life as an award-winning rock...więcej »
"The Mount Rushmore of Adult Entertainment has four heads: John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Jenna Jameson, and Seka. That's it; there ain't no more."
- Bill Margold, famed adult film actor,
agent, pr...więcej »
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high ...więcej »
For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and loathed, revered and feared, applauded and critici...więcej »
This vintage volume contains Lord Dunsany's 1937 novel, "My Ireland". Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878 - 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, most famous for the novels, mostly in the fa...więcej »
During his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Lloyd George. Leading society...więcej »
The impact of Covid-19 on the world has been far-reaching and profound. For Shaylyn Pitts, a young woman dealing with the crisis in locked-down Melbourne, the pandemic proved to be...więcej »
This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the everyday realities of life without love, among those who pursue war. It documents the ways that Dominionist theologies (the recovery of a theocra...więcej »
This is the autobiography of a thoroughly undistinguished Norfolk Peer of the Realm in his late nineties; but the only Peer (ever) with a Cauliflower Ear and a price on his head. Admittedly the ...więcej »
In 1971, Sally Arnold takes a nannying job in Paris that will transform her life. Her charge is Mick Jagger's daughter Jade and she is soon running more than bath-time... She is working for the ...więcej »
Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during th...więcej »
SFC Jared Monti was not the only hero in the battle on Hill 2610. There were 15 other brave American soldiers in the patrol who refused to back down despite the overwhelming odds against them. Ja...więcej »
“Sometimes I think life is a terminal illness.” - Spencer TracyOften described as a “man’s man,” the talented and versatile Hollywood legend Spencer Tracy&rs...więcej »
After discovering a trove of old family photos in her late mother's garden shed, Williams embarks on a years-long genealogical search that leads back to her ancestors who arrived from England in...więcej »
He's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on hi...więcej »