| Biographies |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
A Century in His Life
- Novelist D.M. Thomas takes up the challenge of chronicling the life of this Nobel laureate writer and champion of truth. He succeeds in painting a detailed portrait of this complicated man, set against the tumultuous landscape of Russia's modern era. |
Angela's Ashes:
- A Memoir
- "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.... |
Stephen Sondheim
- by Meryle Secrest
- Meryle Secrest--with the help of Sondheim--tries to pierce the enigmatic exterior of this very private person. Perhaps, considering the nature of the subject, this is all we will be privileged to see.... Ms. Secrest stresses the Sondheim brings to his highly disciplined profession, and when it is pertinent she relates the life to the work |
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
- A distinguished professor at the U of Dresden in 1933, later he was merely a Jew. He suffered every other indignity to which German Jews were subjected, from losing his job to having his driver's license revoked to being denied permission to own a pet, and all are recorded with bitter clarity in his diary entries... |
Audiobook:
Whoopi Goldberg
- by Whoopi Goldberg
- Here the Oscar -winning actress and comedian offers her own unique take on the world today. Performed by Goldberg herself, this audiobook is as entertaining, outrageous and as real as the woman herself. 4 cassettes. |
Diana
Her True Story in Her Own Words
- by Andrew Morton
- More than 75 full-color photos of the princess, her childhood in Althorp, her marriage to Charles, her humanitarian efforts, and finally her unforgettable funeral service |
A Likely Story:
One Summer With Lillian Hellman
- by Rosemary Mahoney
- ..[an] endlessly fascinating book.... [I]t was Hellman's self-destructive misjudgment to hire a valet with a fierce sense of morality, an exquisite eye for detail, a sharp eye for character, a fanciful way with words and a long memory. And Mahoney's willingness to share blame for the misalliance makes her portrait all the more absorbing and damning |
The Art of Scandal: The Life & Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Henry James fictionalized her, John Singer Sargent painted her, Bernard Berenson advised her. Art collector extraordinaire Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was more than a rich socialite. Boston historian Douglass Shand-Tucci convincingly claims her as a pioneering multiculturalist-
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