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Released: March 5, 2013
"Stones compleatists will want to shelve this alongside the collected works of Spanish Tony, but ordinary civilians won't get a lot from the prince's pages."
Languid memoir by the German-British noble who built a fortune for Mick Jagger and company, among other pop icons.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Offers no surprising conclusions, but Thompson provides a well-researched, delightfully obsessive story, suitable for Crockett aficionados and neophytes."
For a year, former
Washington Post feature writer Thompson chased the King of the Wild Frontier.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Occasionally overwritten, but a rich portrayal of an unconventional, free-wheeling thinker whose checkered experiences shock and beguile on the page."
A hip biography of American actor, photographer and pop-art collector Dennis Hopper (1936–2010).
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A sensitive look at the cultural impact of the man who once was "the face of Judaism in America.""
A veteran sportswriter fondly recalls the life of "the greatest Jewish ballplayer of all time."
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A quick, negative-to-achieve manifesto that initially sounds like a bummer but turns out to be brightly anecdotal."
With the assistance of co-author Hammel (
The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim!, 2008, etc.), legendary college-basketball coach Knight (
Knight: My Story, 2002), known for his anger management issues, sings the praises of negativity.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"The master of emotional jousting on the court speaks candidly of life challenges off of it--a must-read for basketball junkies, sport fans and any whose lives have been touched by incurable illness."
The NCAA's winningest basketball coach opens up about private and public contests that have defined her.
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"The Stones' dog-eared story is better told in a dozen other accounts."
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"Both the light and dark sides of the man who made the country both laugh and gag."
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A great choice for Gran devotees or World War II enthusiasts, but too limited in scope for general readers."
Highlights from the life of singer Vera Gran (1916–2007) give a deeper look into the cost of surviving the Holocaust and the struggles that haunt those who did.
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"Blending cultural history with biography, memoir and travelogue, Wall's carefully balanced book is, in itself, a successful tightrope traverse."
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Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A well-paced, thoughtful examination of a singular corpus of work that influenced film portrayals of violence in subsequent decades."
A generous biography of Oscar-winning actor Lee Marvin (1924–1987), best known for his roles in
The Dirty Dozen and
Point Blank.
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Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A thoroughly researched, clearly written account of an obsessive search through the tangled borderland of fact and fiction, legend and myth."
A gracefully presented narrative of the 1956 John Ford film
The Searchers, which was based on a 1954 novel that was based on an actual Comanche kidnapping of a white girl in 1836.
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