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This two-man show is a bubbling stew of humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A grand crowd pleaser whenever performed, the Blaguards is a story of immigration, triumph over hardship and the love of a family.

Hers is the candid, high-spirited story of a scrappy redhead colored girl from West Virginia and Chicago who combined her unerring eye for talent and chich with a uniquely American brashness and an eminently European sophistication to become the toast of two continents.

These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in sixteenth and seventeenth century China.

These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in sixteenth and seventeenth century China.

More than 200 photos of Bob Dylan with accompanying text by a lifelong fan and bookseller.

Fantastic, mostly-never-before-seen photos of the Greatest.

Bob Howard started Wang Labs with An Wang, the cable tv business with Milt Shapp, and invented the dot matrix and laser printers. Along the way he partnered with Howard Hughes and Rupert Murdoch among others. Bob's inventions affect us all in many ways every day. The industries he started employ hundreds of thousands of people.

Insurgents within the White House secretly retain a uniquely gifted leadership psychologist to help United States President George W. Bush address a clandestine addiction to alcohol and reverse the course of the Iraq War. The assignment meets with astonishing success--until foul forces come into play. The President's Therapist is a brilliantly literate, profound and penetrating psychological thriller, destined to command a distinctive place am...

A murderer thrives on the attention devoted to him as he awaits trial. The media fawns over him, and a ghostwriter helps him write a book. The prosecuting attorney must find a way of denying him the celebrity--and literary acclaim--he seeks.

Who would I be if my father had been someone else? This startling and beautiful book is a valiant attempt to answer this universal and searching question.The subjects of this book set out on that search under the guidance of Jess Maghan, a world renown expert on the subject of authority. Using forced field writing, they were able to distill their findings into essays of 350 words. Illustrated with contemporary photos of subjects and archival p...

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A poetic exploration of infidelity over the ages, with 45 poems analysed by a man whose business is assessing human foibles.

A panoramic view of the development of the enduring principles and concepts of modern mathematics.

Leonardo's huge influence on the history of art is not only due to his surviving masterpieces, but also to his brilliant writings. Through his mastery of anatomy, perspective, his blending of realistic detail with psychological penetration, he brought the scientific approach to painting.

This collection of classic, rare and never-before seen photos is guaranteed to blow your mind! Photos are drawn from the massive archive of The Daily Mail, and digitized specifically for publication in this book.

A stunning literary debut set in Mussolini's Italy, imbued with passion, honor and tragedy, Rossi's novel draws the reader, from the very first word until the very last, into a world where the real and the magical become inexorably entwined.

Alma Mahler gives up a promising musical career to become a freelance muse as she conquers a series of difficult geniuses. A glittering, darkly sensual novel, "The Artist's Wife" turns the lens of history upon inspiration, ambition, and love.

The official behind-the-scenes story of the meteroic rise of Rock and Roll by the people who made it history.

The Lost Masters is the most up-to-date account of the tragic looting of Europe and the victims' attempt to reclaim the precious art heritage.

In That Summer's Trance his subject is betrayal, both of oneself and of others, in a culture of material rewards. It is an unforgettable story of one actor outdone by another, and it tells us more about role-playing, and the theater of everyday life, than I would have thought possible.--Charles Baxter