Larry: 3162 books
by Larry Hovick
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
The power of severe weather in the Midwest force dramatic changes in the lives of Angie Locke and her brother. Orphans at a young age, they are cast into foster care but not forgotten. They face hardship as teenagers as the dominoes fall against them. Angie finds strength, confidence and determination...
Picasso and the Chess Player
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation...
For The Love of Music
Invitations to Listening
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience....
by Larry Sloman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Hailed as “the War and Peace of rock and roll” by Bob Dylan himself, this is the ultimate backstage pass to Dylan’s legendary 1975 tour across America—by a former Rolling Stone reporter prominently featured in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.
In...
The Secret Life of Houdini
The Making of America's First Superhero
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.
Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team...
Recondo
LRRPs in the 101st Airborne
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
For firefights in the swamps, ambushes in the jungle, or just facing the enemy dead-on, Recondo trained LRRPs to win.
They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long...
Black Virgin Mountain
A Return to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war...
No Ordinary Joes
The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
On April 23, 1943,the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadierscrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.
No...
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction -- as close to an autobiography as his readers are likely to get -- Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary...
The Father of Spin
Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and most successful practioners of the art of public relations. In this engrossing biography, Larry Tye uses Bernays's life as a prism to understand the evolution...
One Nation Under Sex
How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson's girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt...
The People's Princess
Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The People’s Princess, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories.
Sir Richard...
by Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., Jackie MacMullan
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s — Celtics vs Lakers, East...
Satchel
The Life and Times of an American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Through dogged research and extensive interviews,...