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A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar Peterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Bayou Jazz Lives S.
Organized chronologically, "A Jazz Odyssey takes readers through the development of jazz over the course of the late 20th century as seen by one of the jazz world's most celebrated figures. Peterson describes his whole colorful and eventful life, from playing with the Johnny Holmes Orchestra in Montreal ...Show more
A Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh by Jo van Gogh-Bonger; Martin Gayford (Introduction by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The general outlines of Vincent van Gogh's life--the early difficulties in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness and despair that led to his suicide--are almost as familiar as his paintings. Yet neither the paintings nor Van Gogh's story might have surv ...Show more
A Princess Remembers by Gayatri Devi
Category: Biography | Series: Century Lives & Letters series
ANCIENT GREEKS THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WIORLD by Alexandra Villing
Category: History | Series: Their Lives and Their World Ser.
The Ancient Greeks introduces children to the people of the ancient Greek world. This is a highly visual resource book, packed with authentic pictures of real Greek places, things and people. It shows at first hand how the people of the ancient Greek city-states lived and worked and the legacy they left ...Show more
Agatha Christie - Inspiring Lives by Cathy Cook
Category: Biography | Series: Inspiring Lives Ser.
'If anyone writes about my life in the future, I'd rather they got the facts right.'Agatha Christie No one has had the same impact on the literary world as Agatha Christie: she is the world's bestselling fiction author, her books have been translated over 7,000 times and her play The Mousetrap is the wo ...Show more
Albert Camus by Edward J. Hughes
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize 2015 Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus. Though his life was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960, when he was just forty-six years old, he packed those years with an incredib ...Show more
Albert Einstein - Graphic Biographies by Tammy L. Enz
Category: Children's | Series: Great Lives Ser.
Albert Einstein, one of the world's greatest scientific minds, is profiled in an entertaining graphic novel See how Albert went from being a young boy that might never talk to a future genius who triumphed over obstacles and became a success. Help older children learn about some of the most exciting m ...Show more
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature by Irven M. Resnick; Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
Category: History | Series: Medieval Lives Ser.
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural wo ...Show more
Albrecht Dürer - Art and Autobiography by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An exploration of the life and works of German artist Albrecht Dürer and his self-obsession. The Italian Renaissance birthed the modern sense of self, and no artist from the period compares with Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in his own life. Dürer's wo ...Show more
Aldous Huxley by Jake Poller
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
"An outstanding book."--James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."--Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. T ...Show more
Alexander Graham Bell by Emma Fischel
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, but moved first for health reasons to Canada, and then to the United States to continue his work as a professor of vocal physiology - how people talk. He put this interest and a fascination for electricity together and began to experiment with transmitting voi ...Show more
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers ...Show more