Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five ...więcej »
Tallulah: My Autobiography
by Tallulah Bankhead
In her own words, the life of the inimitable actress known for her daring ways and distinctive foghorn voice
Her grandfather was a U. S. senator. ...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 »
"This honest, page-turning confession is also a measure of the adaptability and usefulness of the Asian tradition of Buddhism for the young and restless of contemporary America".
Publishers Weeklywięcej »
This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller...więcej »
The story of the last tour of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens-and the fatal air crash that took their lives. Drawing on new documentary information, the author recreates the often gr...więcej »
Sports star Deion Sanders tells his powerful life story and reveals how power, money, and sex could not satisfy the void in his life--a void which was eventually filled by Christ.więcej »
Transformative lessons in life learnt through a remarkable three-year-old girl's battle with cancer. From Hannah's story emerge five profound lessons – of truth, joy, faith, compassion and...więcej »
Velma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark hercoming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, whereshe is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Fam...więcej »
This is the true story of C.S. Lewis – one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century – whose books for children and adults have become much-loved classics.
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Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and persona...więcej »
The seminal work of the Cuban genius who repeated the exploits of Morphy, suddenly bursting onto the European scene and annihilating the great masters
who had hitherto dominated the international ...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 »
Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. From the 1960s into the 1980s, he operated out of Tulsa as a h...więcej »