NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2010
"Apollo, Ra, Inti or Huitzilopochtli--all would rock with delight at Cohen's sweeping endeavor."
A remarkably comprehensive and engrossing synthesis of the sun's influence on science, art, religion, literature, mythology and politics.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 2010
"There's really nothing like this oft-rapturous work in the canon of musical memoirs."
The master musician and producer offers a typically idiosyncratic take on his life and art.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"Successfully dissipating all the perfume, Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman--brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 26, 2010
"All legendary athletes should hope for treatment by such capable, compassionate hands."
A sympathetic, moving life of the Brown Bomber by veteran cultural historian and biographer Roberts (History/Purdue Univ.;
The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports, 2005, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A dense, challenging, dazzling work that will leave readers exhausted but yearning for more."
The peripatetic author of
Great Plains (1989) and
On the Rez (2000) returns with an energetic, illuminating account of his several trips to Siberia, where his ferocious curiosity roamed the vast, enigmatic area.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"Informative, readable and great fun."
Bryson (
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, 2006, etc.) takes a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life.
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