The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’slegendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabbleboyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fameto the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’srise again from the ashes. In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie VanZant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band toplay covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and thecountry and blues-rock music they had grown to love. Naming theirband after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at Robert E. Lee SeniorHigh School who constantly badgered the long-haired aspiringmusicians to get haircuts, they were soon playing gigs at parties,and bars throughout the South. During the next decade LynyrdSkynyrd grew into the most critically acclaimed and commerciallysuccessful of the rock bands to emerge from the South since theAllman Brothers. Their hits “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama”became classics. The

Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing uppoor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of lifebefore the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purpleand as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. "A history ofour time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax".--SenatorEdward Kennedy.

“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He wasa creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than Iam.” –from The Good Good Pig A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own amongwild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always feltmore comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladlyopened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away fromnourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inklingthat this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not onlysurvive but flourish–and she soon found herself engaged with hersmall-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible.Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler withsomething she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventuallyweighing 750 pounds) to family and home. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all hisglory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural NewHampshire, where his boundless zest for life a

Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of earlyaviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of NorthAfrica. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with achildlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exoticand capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew hewould have her as his wife. Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Airesto Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them throughperiods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion,devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. The Tale of theRose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams and of the womanwho was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince’s belovedrose—unique in all the world—whom he could not live with and couldnot live without.

2009年全美 时装盛宴——维多利亚的秘密冠军凯莉·比苏蒂在文中讲述了自己从初入行成为模特，到一举拿下维秘 ，以及 愿淡泊名利回归平静生活的全部心路历程。 而在金钱名利物欲熏心的现在，许多年轻人未必还能做到保持一颗平淡的心来控制自己的生活节奏。 而在《我不是天使》里，这位曾经的维秘 ，被全美看好的未来之星，凯莉给所有爱美爱漂亮追求明星梦的女孩们分享自己的建议和经历，也揭露了这个残酷的行业里一些不被外人所知的现实。

“This book is a life-changer. Thomas Cahill hasshown—through the extraordinary life of one man—that God workseverywhere and can bring the most beautiful soul to maturity ineven the most horrifying circumstances. If you read his story youwill never forget Dominique Green, nor will you ever feel the sameway about our courts, our prisons, and our criminal justicesystem.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead ManWalking “Though this is a book that ends in death, it does not end indespair. Read it and discover how even the obscenity of capitalpunishment can be transformed into an occasion of light and peace.”—Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Afric "A deeply moving narrative about a man transformed as he faced anunjust execution." —James H. Cone, author of Black Theologyand Black Power “I expect A Saint on Death Row to become a classic in the growingstruggle to cleanse this nation finally of the sin of the deathpenalty.” —Jonathan Kozo

More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remainsone of the most gifted artists of our time–and also one of the mostelusive. Because of who she was and how she chose to live her life,Lady Day has been the subject of both intense adoration and wildlydistorted legends. Now at last, Farah Jasmine Griffin, a writer ofintellectual authority and superb literary gifts, liberates BillieHoliday from the mythology that has obscured both her life and herart. An intimate meditation on Holiday’s place in American culture andhistory, If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery reveals Lady Day in allher complexity, humor and pain–a true jazz virtuoso whose passionand originality made every song she sang hers forever. Celebratedby poets, revered by recording artists from Frank Sinatra to MacyGray, Billie Holiday is more popular and influential today thanever before. Now, thanks to this marvelous book, Holiday’s manyfans can finally understand the singer and the woman they love.

As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship withirresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his closefriendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration ofPicasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso'sstudio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of theartist and his work. 800 photos.

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important andenigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugelyinfluential today. He has never granted a writer access to hisinner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with morethan three hundred of Young’s associates, and on more than fiftyhours of interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a fascinating,prodigious account of the singer’s life and career. Jimmy McDonoughfollows Young from his childhood in Canada to his cofounding ofBuffalo Springfield to the huge success of Crosby, Stills, Nash andYoung to his comeback in the nineties. Filled withnever-before-published words directly from the artist himself,Shakey is an essential addition to the top shelf of rockbiographies.

There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever leftcompletely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, asingle "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after theaudience and all of the actors and musicians have gone home. FrankRich's eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theateritself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a childfinding his way in a tumultuous world. Rich grew up in the small-townish Washington,D.C., of the 1950s and early '60s, a place where conformity seemedthe key to happiness for a young boy who always felt different.When Rich was seven years old, his parents separated--at a timewhen divorce was still tantamount to scandal--and thereafter he andhis younger sister were labeled "children from a broken home."Bouncing from school to school and increasingly lonely, Rich becameterrified of the dark and the uncertainty of his future. But therewas one thing in his life that made him sublimely happy: theBroadway theater. Rich's parents w

During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England,Harry Bernstein’s selfless mother never stops dreaming of a betterlife in America, no matter how unlikely. Then, one miraculous daywhen Harry is twelve years old, steamship tickets arrive in themail, sent by an anonymous benefactor. Suddenly, a new life full ofthe promise of prosperity seems possible–and the family sets sailfor America, meeting relatives in Chicago. For a time, they get ataste of the good life: electric lights, a bathtub, a telephone.But soon the harsh realities of the Great Depression envelop them.Skeletons in the family closet come to light, mafiosi darken theirdoorstep, family members are lost, and dreams are shattered. In theface of so much loss, Harry and his mother must make a fatefuldecision–one that will change their lives forever. And though hehas struggled for so long, there is an incredible bounty waitingfor Harry in New York: his future wife, Ruby. It is their romancethat will finally bring the peace and happiness tha

In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of MarkTwain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant orTwain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision wouldprofoundly alter not only both their lives but the course ofAmerican literature. Over the next fifteen months, as the two menbecame close friends and intimate collaborators, Grant racedagainst the spread of cancer to compose a triumphant account of hislife and times—while Twain struggled to complete and publish hisgreatest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Inthis deeply moving and meticulously researched book, veteran writerMark Perry reconstructs the heady months when Grant and Twaininspired and cajoled each other to create two quintessentiallyAmerican masterpieces. In a bold and colorful narrative, Perry recounts the early careersof these two giants, traces their quest for fame and elusivefortunes, and then follows the series of events that brought themtogether as friends. The reason Grant let Twain talk

In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decadesin the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and timesof one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, NobelPrize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, fromhis upbringing in backwater Columbia and early journalism career,to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at ageforty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviewswith more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends,family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the manyhours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelationof both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of GabrielGarcía Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of hisacclaimed and beloved fiction.