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Released: June 18, 2013
"The lesson in this surprisingly heartfelt memoir by an iconic American tattoo artist is that the man is not always the brand."
Hardy's memoir/cautionary tale about art, commerce, skin and ink, written with the assistance of
San Francisco Chronicle music writer Selvin (co-author:
Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s, 2012, etc.).
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Released: June 18, 2013
"A unique, romantic memoir and a perfect introduction to a unique American voice."
A contrarian expatriate's impressionistic rendering of her adopted country, just before the ax fell.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"While exploring the life of his human subject, Downing also effectively draws us to visit Tuscany, to stay and absorb its magic."
Downing (
The Calligraphy Shop, 2003) delivers an illuminating biography of Janet Ross (1842–1927), who led the Anglo-Florentine community through the belle epoque and into the 1920s.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"Although the story is weighed down by the extraneous details of a dark relationship, this is a courageous, and ultimately engrossing, story of a woman's quest to bring her daughter back to safety."
An autobiographical account of a mother retrieving her kidnapped daughter from war-torn Syria.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"A riveting, highly readable tale of terror in the skies."
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Released: June 18, 2013
"A sympathetic, entertaining portrayal of two presidential opponents and ultimate colleagues--a nice complement to Lynne Olson's more comprehensive, sweeping Those Angry Days (2013)."
A warmly characterized study of Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie as they battled for the presidency of 1940 within a yawning national chasm over the war.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"An important text whose dense design may dissuade some general readers but whose thorough research supplies some significant pages in the account of some of history's darkest decades."
A veteran recording producer and authority on Jewish music debuts with a richly detailed history of Jewish musicians--not just composers--who were threatened by the Holocaust.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"While formal and academic, this portrait presents compelling new evidence of Queensberry's humanity."
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Released: June 18, 2013
"An engaging account of one man's determination to overcome personal, financial and bureaucratic obstacles in his quest to pass a landmark law that would protect collective cultural life and identity."
A previously unpublished biography of a pioneer in the field of international law who is responsible for inventing the word "genocide" and defining legal terms for preventing future genocidal acts.
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Released: June 18, 2013
"Doubly moving in light of Relin's own untimely death."
The tortuous route of two intrepid eye doctors, one Nepalese, one American, in their journey to eradicate preventable blindness in the Himalayas.
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Released: June 21, 2013
"A delicious throwback memoir, writerly and rich."
In five dated yet beautifully crafted essays, Fallowell (
Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book, 2008, etc.) mines some early trips he took for literary inspiration.
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Released: June 25, 2013
"Adams presents Davis warts and all, as a callous, scheming tycoon who amassed a fortune and then did an about-face and behaved with honesty, responsibility and generosity as he transformed archaeology from glorified grave robbing to a science. "
Long before Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb, Theodore Davis (1837–1915) was the driving force in the exploration of the Valley of the Kings. Adams vividly portrays the unlikely robber baron who set the standards for archaeology.
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