-Titulo Original : Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Review “A finely rendered story about people trying to find inner peace after their worlds have been turned upside down. Both shocking and tender, Rabbit Foot Bill is a riveting tale, full of compassion and told without judgement.” -- Governor General’s Award winning author Dianne Warren A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“One of the best - and most wonderfully experimental - historical fiction titles of the year. . . . Humphreys is an extraordinary writer. Truly spectacular.” -- Toronto Star“This gem of a novel is as unique as the woman who inspired it. . . . A transcendent life-honouring work.” -- Postmedia“[Humphreys’] impressive ability to tell a story through the ordinary actions of her characters makes reading Machine Without Horses an effortless pleasure.” -- Winnipeg Free Press“Machine Without Horses is so good, so powerful, that I cannot imagine reading the likes again.” -- Owen Sound Sun-Times A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard-an escape from school, bullies and a hard father. So his shock is absolute when he witnesses Bill commit a sudden violent act and loses him to prison.Fifteen years on, as a newly graduated doctor of psychiatry, Leonard arrives at the Weyburn Mental Hospital, both excited and intimidated by the massive institution known for its experimental LSD trials. To Leonard’s great surprise, at the Weyburn he is reunited with Bill and soon becomes fixated on discovering what happened on that fateful day in 1947.Based on a true story, this page-turning novel from a master stylist examines the frailty and resilience of the human mind. About the Author HELEN HUMPHREYS is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. And she has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Prize and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Her most recent novel is Rabbit Foot Bill. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario....

-Titulo Original : City Of Nets A Portrait Of Hollywood In The 1940s-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood’s golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean War In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywoods decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profitable. In this masterful work of cultural history, the legendary Otto Friedrich tells the story of Hollywoods heyday and decline in a vivid narrative featuring an all-star cast of the actors, writers, musicians, composers, producers, directors, racketeers, labor leaders, journalists, and politicians who played major parts in the movie capital during the turbulent decade from World War II to the Korean War. Friedrich draws on sources from celebrity biographies to trade-union history, mingling lively gossip with analysis of Hollywoods seedier business dealings and telling the stories of legendary movies such as Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and All About Eve. A classic portrait of a special place in a special time, City of Nets gives us a singular behind-the-scenes glimpse into a bygone era that still captivates our imaginations. Review “A ‘City of Nets’ is what Mr. Friedrich calls Hollywood in the title of his new social history. . . . Mr. Friedrich’s intelligent prose makes for fascinating reading.” -- New York Times Book Review “What happened in these 10 years is as rich and colorful a story as can be imagined and Friedrich has more than done it justice . . . in a narrative that is often funny and remarkably even-handed--a must for movie buffs and a rewarding read for everyone else.” -- Publishers Weekly “With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood. . . . By mixing enjoyable gossip about the stars’ personal lives and behind-the-scenes maneuverings with a shrewd look at the film world’s often unsavory industrial underpinnings, Friedrich gives us a much clearer understanding of Hollywood’s reciprocal relationship with American reality.” -- Village Voice From the Back Cover In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywoods decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profitable. In this masterful work of cultural history, the legendary Otto Friedrich tells the story of Hollywoods heyday and decline in a vivid narrative featuring an all-star cast of the actors, writers, musicians, composers, producers, directors, racketeers, labor leaders, journalists, and politicians who played major parts in the movie capital during the turbulent decade from World War II to the Korean War. Friedrich draws on sources from celebrity biographies to trade-union history, mingling lively gossip with analysis of Hollywoods seedier business dealings and telling the stories of legendary movies such as Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and All About Eve. A classic portrait of a special place in a special time, City of Nets gives us a singular behind-the-scenes glimpse into a bygone era that still captivates our imaginations. About the Author Otto Friedrich (1929-1995) was a journalist and cultural historian. A contributing editor at The Saturday Evening Post and Time magazine, he was the author of fourte...

-Titulo Original : Mozart The Reign Of Love-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Now in paperback: the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan SwaffordAt the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun. Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art. Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself. Review “[A] comprehensive and engaging biography.... With the eye of an omniscient novelist, Mr. Swafford tells Mozart’s story looking both forward and back, knowing too well how it will end…. When he’s describing music, Mr. Swafford the novelist often becomes Mr. Swafford the poet, finding the impeccable image or unforgettable turn of phrase…. [ Mozart is a] conversation he so irresistibly invites us to join.” -- Wall Street Journal This is an excellent book on Mozart for both musicians and the general reader. The story is told in a lively, knowing style, without written-out musical examples but shot through with unfailingly erudite and impassioned discussion of the composer’s work. -- Washington Post “ Mozart: The Reign of Love, is now the best single-volume English biography of the greatest composer and musician who ever lived.” -- Merion West “It is a great pleasure to read about Mozart as a working composer in a narrative written by a working composer....Jan Swafford, an author whose music has been performed by the symphonies in St. Louis and Indianapolis, is our guide into the composing process, aided by a dexterous use of Mozart’s correspondence and a deep knowledge of how music came about during the 18th century…The result is a biography that has an immediacy, a wholly thrilling ‘you are there’ impact.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “The book goes well beyond setting the historical record straight, however. It is an utterly comprehensive look at Mozarts life, as well as an exhaustive reference to his music. Swafford, who has also written biographies of Beethoven, Charles Ives and Brahms, is a composer first, and his keen understanding of music is his greatest strength as a biographer.” -- Minneapolis Star Tribune In this masterfully written biography, Jan Swafford not only presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the greatest classical composers of all time, but debunks many of the myths surrounding the momentous and all-too-short life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The author, who is a composer, brings his insight to bear on his subject. -- Christian Science Monitor Composer and biographer Swafford brings expertise and insight to bea...

-Titulo Original : The Private Lives Of The Impressionists-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers-but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roes colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life. Review “Exceptionally detailed and thoroughly researched….Roe has done an admirable job of unearthing…countless…source materials.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “The title suggests titillation and does not disappoint...Intelligent and well-crafted portraits of some of history’s most intriguing geniuses.” -- Kirkus Starred Review “Roe constructs a penetrating group portrait...scintillatingly detailed and empathic.” -- Booklist (starred review) “Meticulously researched and vividly written...a comprehensive and revealing group portrait.” -- Publishers Weekly “An entertaining, informative read...this [is a] wonderfully written biography.” -- Bookseller “Charming… a decidedly readable work that should engage lay readers and spur undergraduates to conduct authentic research of their own.” -- Library Journal “A compelling subject: Sue Roe’s book does it justice and is a pleasure to read.” -- Henrietta Garnett, Literary Review “An illuminating insight into the lives of aesthetic revolutionaries” -- Daily Telegraph (London) “Vivid, superbly researched...Sue Roe transports us back to their Paris” -- Daily Mail (London) “Roe synthesizes the welath of published...work on half a dozen artists into a coherent narrative of kith and kinship” -- Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian About the Author Sue Roe is the author of several books, including a widely praised biography of the artist Gwen John. She lives and teaches in Brighton, England...

-Titulo Original : Frida Kahlo The Paintings-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: [Herreras] expressive and fluid prose is able to keep pace with Kahlos riveting canvases and adds to the experience of viewing them....A superb tribute. - Booklist In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo’s life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full color paintings, as well as dozens of black and white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life. Review “Hayden Herrera’s name has become inextricably linked with that of Frida Kahlo...[This book is] a useful popular introduction to one of the most singular artists of the twentieth century.” -- New York Times Book Review “[Herrera’s] expressive and fluid prose is able to keep pace with Kahlo’s riveting canvases and adds to the experience of viewing them....A superb tribute.” -- Booklist Engaging and well illustrated. -- Wall Street Journal Perhaps the most direct analysis of Frida Kahlos life and art within one volume to date. -- Library Journal About the Author Hayden Herrera is an art historian. She has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, taught Latin American art at New York University, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews for such publications as Art in America, Art Forum, Connoisseur, and the New York Times, among others. Her books include Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; Mary Frank; and Matisse: A Portrait. She is working on a critical biography of Arshile Gorky. She lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Marvel Comics The Untold Story-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics - and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” -Jonathan Lethem For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939, Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades and Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most enduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America. Review “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdos changed the world. That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” -- Jonathan Lethem “A warts-and-all, nail-biting mini-epic about the low-paid, unsung ‘funnybook men’ who were unwittingly creating twenty-first century pop culture. If you thought the fisticuffs were bare and bloody on the four-color page, wait ‘til you hear about what went down in the Marvel bullpen.” -- Patton Oswalt “Exhaustively researched and artfully assembled, Marvel Comics is a historical exploration, a labor of love, and a living illustration of how the weirdest corners of the counterculture can sometimes become the culture-at-large.” -- Chuck Klosterman “Page after page, Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics manages to be enchantingly told, emotionally suspenseful and totally revelatory. If I knew more about superpowers, I’d be able to explain how he did it.” -- Sloane Crosley “Sean Howe is to Marvel Comics what Procopius was to the Byzantine Empire: a court gossip of breathtaking thoroughness and exactitude, and a sly and nuanced writer. It is imperative that this work not fall into the hands of alien species, or we’re done for.” -- Luc Sante “A jittery, hilarious, anecdotal, and exhaustive history of the company. . . . If you’re a comics fan, this is essential reading. If you’re not, then it’s merely fascinating. Howe has written a biographical history of modern America’s id.” -- GQ “Written crisply with lots of original reporting, Marvel Comics is a must for any superhero or pop-culture fan.” -- The New York Post “Sean Howe reveals the real-world battles and triumphs behind the biggest name in comics.” -- Entertainment Weekly “Sean Howe’s gripping new history lays out five decades of Marvel adventures and insanity, and will make you believe that comic-book creators have even weirder lives than their mutant creations.” -- Rolling Stone “ Marvel Comics is a meticulous chronicle of the real secret origins of the superhero, a tragic love story about the relationship between a long parade of passionate, talented superhero devotees and the company that didn’t love them back.” -- The Los Angeles Times From the Back Cover In the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws: Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men. Over the course of half a century, Marvels epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a mo...

-Titulo Original : Dropped Names Famous Men And Women As I Knew Them-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller“This uncommonly eloquent book is enjoyable for the panoply of great names who turn up. . . . A natural raconteur, [Mr. Langella] seems to fit precisely Henry James’s famous description of the novelist as one ‘on whom nothing is lost.’ ” -Charles Isherwood, New York TimesRita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street...Captured forever in a unique memoir, legendary actor Frank Langella’s myriad encounters with some of the past century’s most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr. Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the social elite, and the greats of the Broadway stage. We learn something, too, of Mr. Langella’s personal journey from the age of fifteen to the present day. Dropped Names is, like its subjects, riveting and unforgettable. Review “Splendid. . . . As much a memoir as a primer on the vicissitudes of an actor’s life, the book is a collage based on real-life situations that offer touching insights into stars like Rita Hayworth, and into the practical magic that informs Langella’s signature sensibility.” - The New Yorker“With his first book, Dropped Names, the theater and film veteran. . . reveals a first-rate gift for gab that translates wonderfully onto the page.” - USA Today“Rarely have I read a book about celebrities that is as insightful, candid, revealing, and as well-written as this one. Frank Langella’s memoir is not the usual author’s ego trip, but rather his remembrances of the many accomplished men and women that he has come to know.” - Gay Talese, author of A Writers Life“A delightfully unabashed page-turner about people we wish we had known in the throes of work, love, and growing old.” - A.R. Gurney, award-winning playwright“Engaging. . . .Not just Langella’s “famous people I have known,” but a heartfelt love letter to the theater and to the days when stars were stars, not merely celebrities.” - Kirkus Reviews“Dropped Names is a sizzling platter of stellar vignettes-pungent, for sure, but poignant too. . . . Mr. Langella is surgically precise, and eloquent. . . . The human condition in most of its vagaries is beautifully rendered between these pages.” - Liz Smith“ If Frank Langella’s memoir simply did what its title promises, it would be deep-dish gossip. But his memories of the stars he’s encountered during a lengthy career on Broadway and in film shed perceptive light on the costs of pursuing and maintaining fame.” - Detroit Free Press“Langella’s uncommonly eloquent book is enjoyable for the panoply of great names who turn up. . . . A natural raconteur, he seems to fit precisely Henry James’s famous description of the novelist as one ‘on whom nothing is lost.’” - New York Times“Frank Langella’s DROPPED NAMES is a different kind of memoir. . . . Not many of his peers could write such an eloquently dishy book.” - Los Angeles Times“The 65 chapters in this satisfyingly scandalous memoir paint Broadway and Hollywood as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by celebrities in far-flung locations.” - New York Times From the Back Cover Captured forever in a unique memoir, Broadway and film star Frank Langellas myriad encounters with some of the past centurys most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr. Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the s...

-Titulo Original : I Love Yous Are For White People A Memoir-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In I Love You Are for White People, author Lac Su offers a face--his face--as a window into the experiences of impoverished Asian refugees. Su recounts the formative events of his childhood and adolescence, all of which bear the theme of searching for love and community within the confines of racial identity and socioeconomic status. From an academic perspective, many facets of Sus memoir are pregnant with social commentary but Su maintains focus on the humanistic aspects of his familys stories . . . emboldening us with the initiative to create a more hospitable America.- Leung, Chung (2014) Book Review: I Love Yous Are for White People, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences: Vol. 36, Article 2. Stanford University, CA, USA Review The striking title of the writer Lac Sus memoir is I Love Yous Are for White People, which explores the emotional devastation wreaked on one Vietnamese family by its refugee experiences. I share some of Lac Sus background, and it has been a lifelong effort to learn how to say, without awkwardness, I love you. I can do this for my son, and it is heartfelt, but it comes with an effort born of the self-consciousness I still feel when I say it to my father or brother.- Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize Author for Fiction, Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Author of THE SYMPATHIZER: A NOVEL, RACE AND RESISTANCE, AND NOTHING EVER DIES For second-generation, American-born/raised folks like myself, author Lac Su totally nailed it: we first felt a collective wave of PTSD--Parental Trauma Stress Disorder--sweep over us as we recognized slivers from our childhood reflected . . . I wont regale you with stories from my own tiger mother issues but suffice to say, shards of those proscriptions hit home closer than Id care to admit.- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, AND WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWERI Love Yous are for White People is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. A breath-taking journey about beauty and love.- Dave Pelzer, author of A CHILD CALLED IT and recipient of the National Jefferson award I LOVE YOUS ARE FOR WHITE PEOPLE by Lac Su is that rare combination of a miraculous yet true story that also happens to be masterfully written. The authors account of his familys nightmarish escape from Viet Nam, on foot, under heavy gunfire, and then by boat - told sparingly and unforgettably - sets the stage on which the rest of his story spools out with such a flow that you forget you are in the act of reading. Lac Su has told a brave story that is also a cautionary tale that should be read by many, showing us the way to how our youth - immigrant and otherwise - can come to know their true worth. - Mim Eichler Rivas, author of BEAUTIFUL JIM KEY, coauthor of FINDING FISH with Antwone Fisher and coauthor of THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS with Chris Gardner The book debunks the seemingly positive myth of Asian Americans as a model minority, substantiates certain negative stereotypes of Asian men, and challenges some of the classic Asian values that apparently have shaped the Asian American identity. I argue that Sus memoir is a critique of structural inequalities, urban poverty, unemployment, inaccessibility to a support network, and the intersection between class, gender, and race in the contexts of war and its aftermath.- Ha, Quan-Manh (2016) Domestic Violence in Lac Sus I Love Yous Are for White People: A Sociological Criticism Approach, Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 7, Article 9. In I Love Yous are for White People, Lac Su has given us the ultimate in memoir. A remarkable story full of sweetness, pain, but most of all, hope.- Tish Cohen, author of TOWN HOUSE and INSIDE OUT GIRL. From the Back Cover As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his fat...

-Titulo Original : Dont Leave Me This Way Or When I Get Back On My Feet Youll Be Sorry-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Julia Fox Garrison refused to listen to the professionals she called Dr. Jerk and Dr. Panic, who-after she suffered a massive, debilitating stroke at age thirty-seven-told her shed probably die, or to Nurse Doom, who ignored her emergency call button. Instead she heeded the advice of kind, gifted Dr. Neuro, who promised her he would treat your mind as well as your body. Julia figured if she could somehow manage to get herself into a wheelchair, at least shed always find parking. But after many, many months of hospitalization and rehab-with the help of family, friends, and her own indomitable spirit-Julia not only got into a wheelchair, but she got back out.Dont Leave Me This Way is the funny, inspiring, profoundly moving true story of a womans fight for her life and dignity-and her determined quest to awaken an entrenched, unfeeling medical community to the fact that theres always a human being inside every patient. Review “Fierce optimism and even fiercer wit…(A) unique tone and utterly un-maudlin appeal.” - Elle“ Garrison can write. She is sharp, terse, tough and wry, especially wry.” - Detroit Free Press“Worth reading, every page of it.” - Philadelphia Inquirer“Garrison is exceptional because of her response to her experiences, not because of them.” - BookPage“Inspiring...A moving story that pulls readers through her most humbling and most triumphant moments.” - Boston Magazine“Readers can bring this book to the beach and laugh out loud...There are also moments showing Garrison’s incredible sensitivity.” - Chicago Sun-Times“The inspiring story of a feisty woman who stands up, literally and figuratively, and fights for her rights.” - Kirkus Reviews“Her humorous, tear-jerking, struggle-to-recover-against-all-odds story is a lesson in finding silver linings.” - Publishers Weekly“A stroke (literally) of luck helped define the essence of her life. Her inspirational story can help us find ours.” - Mehmet Oz MD, author of YOU, THE OWNERS MANUAL Mehmet Oz, MD, author of YOU, THE OWNERS MANUAL“This book changed the way I practice medicine.” - Gary Sobelson, MD, President, New Hampshire Medical Society“Julia Fox Garrison’s story isn’t just about her own recovery, it’s about the best in all of us.” - Carol Kauffman, Ph.D. Professor, Harvard Medical School“She has raised the bar on honesty and irreverence… to the level of sacred.” - Brenda Michaels and Rob Spears, hosts of Conscious Talk Radio“Wickedly humorous, brutally honest.” - Chicago Tribune “Inspirational is too weak a word to describe Garrison’s memoir.” - Booklist About the Author Julia Fox Garrison lives north of Boston with her husband, young son, and dog. Before her stroke, she had a successful career as a software support manager. Now she is regularly invited as a motivational speaker to doctors groups around the country...

-Titulo Original : The Man Who Loved China The Fantastic Story Of The Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of The Middle Kingdom (p.s.)-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (Elegant and scrupulous-New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (A mesmerizing page-turner-Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the worlds most technologically advanced country.No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of folk dancing. In 1937, while working as a biochemist at Cambridge University, he instantly fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair.He soon became fascinated with China, and his mistress swiftly persuaded the ever-enthusiastic Needham to travel to her home country, where he embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankinds most familiar innovations-including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paper-often centuries before the rest of the world. His thrilling and dangerous journeys, vividly recreated by Winchester, took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people.After the war, Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered, and began writing his majestic Science and Civilisation in China, describing the countrys long and astonishing history of invention and technology. By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever.Both epic and intimate, The Man Who Loved China tells the sweeping story of China through Needhams remarkable life. Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great-related by one of the worlds inimitable storytellers. From the Back Cover In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham-the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the worlds most technologically advanced country. About the Author Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Man Who Loved ChinaThe Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBy Simon WinchesterHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Copyright © 2009 Simon WinchesterAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780060884611Chapter OneThe Barbarian and the CelestialOn the Worldwide Repute of Early Chinese BridgesForeign admirers of Chinese bridges could be adduced from nearly every century of the Empire. Between AD 838 and 847 Ennin never found a bridge out of commission, and marvelled at the effective crossing of one of the branches of the Yellow River by a floating bridge 330 yards long, followed by a bridge of many arches, when on his way from Shandong to Changan. In the last decades of the 13th century Marco Polo reacted in a similar way, and speaks at length of the bridges in China, though he never mentions one in any other part of the world. . . . It is interesting that one of the things which the early Portuguese vi...

-Titulo Original : The Big Fella Babe Ruth And The World He Created-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth-the man Roger Angell dubbed the model for modern celebrity.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal | Finalist for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award | Longlisted for Spitball Magazine’s Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year | Finalist for the NBCC Award for Biography“Leavy’s newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling.” -ForbesHe lived in the present tense-in the camera’s lens. There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace-radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers-Babe Ruth made impossible events happen. Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh-business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit-Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom.His was a life of journeys and itineraries-from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases.After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927-a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season-he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a Symphony of Swat. The Omaha World Herald called it the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent. In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times.Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man. Review “Magnificent.... All this is only to touch on the wealth of research, detail and astuteness of observation that make up The Big Fella. Some of it is sad.... But the winning side of the Babe’s life predominates in these pages and in history.” - Wall Street Journal“Captures Ruth’s outsize influence on American sport and culture.... Leavy’s conceit allows her to stake out some untrod turf. But she also makes a compelling case that to appreciate the adulation Ruth soaked up in October 1927 is to understand his contribution to American life in full.” - New York Times Book Review“An editor of mine once told me that each generation deserves its own biography of a historic figured, and we now have ours for Babe Ruth…Offers depth and nuance to the Bambino’s character….Leavy convincingly shows how Ruth embodied the Jazz Age, rebelling against all constraints both on and off the field while serving as the precursor to Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and the other athletes who would become multimedia conglomerates.” - Boston Globe“Jane Leavy writing a book about Babe Ruth is the biggest thing that has happened in my life since Santa Claus visited my classroom in the second grade. This is Babe Ruth off the diamond and out of uniform, a very flawed human being but still very much a hero, a man who could lift an army of beggars and wannabes o...

-Titulo Original : The Men Who United The States Americas Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, And Mavericks, And The Creation Of One Nation, Indivisible-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings.How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States.Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together. Review “Entertaining. ... A pleasure.” - New York Times Book Review“A rousing tribute to the alliances, agencies, and inventions - from Lewis and Clark to the Internet - that underpin our more perfect union. A stunning, highly original feast of a book.” - STACY SCHIFF, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cleopatra“Vivid, valuable. ... An extraordinary, propulsive tale.” - Wall Street Journal“An impeccably researched, erudite, well-told tale, peppered with occasional grace notes.” - Miami Herald“An elegantly written account... filled with fascinating information.” - Boston Globe“[M]esmerizing and fascinating… Mr. Winchester is a master storyteller, and all the individuals, places, and events that he passionately writes about come to life in exquisite detail.” - New York Journal of Books“Winchester has found a thematic way to tell this familiar story so it seems fresh and informative, even fascinating.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Winchester provides surprising insights into our social history, further enriching his narrative with accounts of his personal odysseys around the country. The results are highly recommended for public and school libraries and all readers looking for new and stimulating perspectives on the history of America.” - Library Journal“A most genial storyteller” - Las Vegas Weekly“[I]nformative and absorbing” - The Oregonian (Portland)“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” - Tom Brokaw“What makes this book so enjoyable is that he ties the development of these advances to some brilliant but idiosyncratic personalities.” - BookPage“He … freshens U.S. history by refusing to tell it through the usual suspects.” - Seattle Times“The subtitle promises readers a sackful of exciting tales-and the author delivers. This is a clever, engaging and original look at what would seem well-trodden historical paths; but Winchester, delightfully, breaks a fresh trail.” - The Economist“The tales he weaves were more engaging than most contemporary fiction.” - Zocalo Public Square From the Back Cover New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester follows the footsteps of Americas most crucial innovators, thinkers, and explorers, from Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys of the West to the builders of the transcontinental railroad and the great highway systems to show how these daring men from three centuries left their mark on Americas natural landscapes through courage, ingenuity, and hard work. Winchester brings together the breathtaking achievements ...