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Leon Trotsky by Paul Le Blanc
Category: European History | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and yet to many others he was a revolutionary of high esteem, who battled an outdated, oppressive dynasty and helped to usher in a new political era, and whos ...Show more
Leonard Bernstein by Paul R. Laird
Category: Film | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky and cha ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci - Self Art and Nature by François Quiviger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside befo ...Show more
Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel
Category: Fiction | Series: Still Lives Ser.
A companion to Still Lives-a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection-this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo.Brenae Brasil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigi ...Show more
Liszt by Bryce Morrison
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Little Guides to Great Lives: Anne Frank by Isabel Thomas
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history s most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrated gui ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Charles Darwin by Dan Green
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Little Guides to Great Lives is a brand-new series of small-format guides introducing children to the most inspirational figures from history in a fun, accessible way. From Curie to Kahlo and Darwin to Da Vinci, Little Guides to Great Lives tells the stories of the most amazing people from all over the ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Frida Kahlo by Isabel Thomas
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Frida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and reveal her true personality. She created over 50 self-portraits, and is considered to be one of the most influential and inspirational artists of the twenti ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Leonardo Da Vinci by Isabel Thomas
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Most famous as the painter who created the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci is also one of history s greatest geniuses he was a mathematician, architect, astronomer, scientist and musician...and he even invented the helicopter!From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Little Guides to Grea ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Marie Curie by Isabel Thomas
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who coined the term "radioactivity," discovered polonium and radium, and helped develop treatments for cancer. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but her dedication to physics ultimately caused her death from radiation.From artists to aviators and scienti ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Maya Angelou by Danielle Jawando
Category: Children's History | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and a long list of plays, films and television shows. Never taking 'No' for an answer, Maya used her voice and her art to overcome pre ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Nelson Mandela by Isabel Thomas
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of triumph in the face of adversity. 2018 marks a hundred years since his birth.From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Lit ...Show more