Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David MichaelisCharles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of th...
The #1 New York Times Bestseller"A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it."—The New Yorker"Vigorous, insightful."—The Washington Post"A...
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
Ray CharlesRay Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic l...
Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the...
Pamela Clarke KeoghThat voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls—Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture. "His appearance on Ed Sullivan ripped the 1950s in half," writes the author. Keogh examines Elvis's life and style t...
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships,...
Sebastian SmeeRivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are h...
One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg shares stories about becoming the woman she wanted to be.Diane von Furstenb...
The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, ...
Steve TurnerDescribes the life and career of the country music singer, following Cash on his journey from the hardscrabble cotton fields of Arkansas, through his brushes with the law and sometimes turbulent personal life, to rise to the heights o...
I'm Possible: Jumping into Fear and D...
Jeremy CowartInternationally known photographer and philanthropist Jeremy Cowart uses snapshots of his own story to inspire readers with the message that all things are possible when we actively engage our God-given purpose to change the world.Rec...
From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cu...
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of...
Laurie Lisle[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Grace Conlin] One of the most original painters America has ever produced, Georgia O'Keeffe's vivid visual vocabulary--sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and e...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: T...
Timothy EganAt once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainfor...