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Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Messianic analyzes the reasons that make Messi a great player, but also the disputes between his agents and his family; the myths that have become part of his official story; the role of his wife, Antonela; the controversial handling of his image and fortune; and the latest glorious phase in his career following his big win with Argentina’s national team"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 487 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions....
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport–and a society–increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics.
Author
Publisher
YosemiteMusic
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
280 pages
Description
One glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family's epic journey from the Antebellum South, through the California Gold Rush and on to Yosemite, ending in Southern California at the dawn of the automobile era. The story follows Monroe's rise to the top of his profession, his mother's heroic fight for her family, his father's role in civil...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xx, 248 pages : illustrations (black and white), music ; 24 cm
Description
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
"In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Description
"En una amena conversacion informal junto a su amigo Leonardo Garcia Tsao, critico de cine con una larga trayectoria, Guillermo del Toro recorre en estas paginas sus tempranas influencias, sus inquetudes infantiles y sus primeras aventuras creativas en Guadalajara; una historia de pasion juvenil que da paso a una de las carrreras cinematograficas mas celebradas de nuestro tiempo. Desde la odisea que significo la filmacion del cortometraje Dona Lupe,...
7) Messalina: empress, adulteress, libertine ; the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxix, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Description
The story of Messalina, third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute....
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
[ayo de 2023]
Physical Desc
331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Cual es el legado cultural en la musica popular y en el cine hispanoamericano de Sara Montiel? Que la llevo a convertirse en un icono, leyenda y mito? De que manera su carrera y su personalidad ayudaron a desafiar y cambiar los roles de genero en la sociedad de su epoca? Saritisima forma parte del imaginario cultural espanol del siglo xx, pues logro un alcance internacional como representante de la cultura espanola. A traves de su produccion musical...
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for years have supported and inspired him on the battlefield...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 412 pages : illustrations (black and white) maps, photographs, facsimilie ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,...
12) Elon Musk
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
734 pages : photographs ; 23 cm
Description
Del autor de Steve Jobs y otras grandes biografias, todas ellas exitos internacionales de ventas, esta es la historia asombrosamente intima del innovador mas fascinante y polemico del mundo, un visionario que ha roto todos los moldes y ha conducido al mundo a la era de los vehiculos electricos, la exploracion espacial privada y la inteligencia artificial. Ah, y el mismo que compro Twitter.Cuando Elon Musk era un nino en Sudafrica, sufria a menudo...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
marzo de 2023.
Physical Desc
181 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Joaquín Murrieta no era un justiciero, pero la gente lo creyó así; no luchó por la libertad ni para defender a su gente de la ambición estadounidense, sino que se convirtió en un símbolo de resistencia en momentos en los que la muerte recorría los caminos de California. Esta es la historia real del antihéroe mexicano que se propuso ser «el azote de los gringos» durante la fiebre del oro, repartió el botín de sus atracos con los más...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In this light, whimsical narrative, young readers learn how Franklin came to be a rebel, beginning with his childhood lesson in street smarts when he buys a whistle at an inflated price. Franklin is a defiant boy who runs away from his apprenticeship, and while he becomes a deep thinker, a brilliant scientist, and a persuasive writer when he grows up, he never loses that spark. As a community leader who tries his best to promote peace and unity both...
15) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portratis, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during the 1950s Red Scare. While living abroad he made his last, and by general agreement, worst films, only to return home years later to a triumphant reception."--
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
106 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Phelps began swimming at age seven at the urging of his mom. As a young boy, Michael was brimming with energy-more energy than most other kids his age-and Mrs. Phelps thought this sport could help keep him calm and focused. As Michael grew older, his skills improved, and he transformed into one of the greatest swimmers in the world, winning twenty-eight Olympic medals"--
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
206 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 25 cm
Description
For as long as there have been secrets to keep, there have been spies, the world over, trying to uncover this classified information. Spying goes on all the time, and everywhere, but some of the most astonishing exploits occur during wartime. The stories in this beautiful collection unpick some of the most astonishing missions undertaken during World War Two, actions that helped to save many lives. Amazingly, many of these tales had to remain a deadly...
Author
Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Featuring stunning portraits created by female and nonbinary artists from around the world, this empowering book profiles 25 neurodivergent artists, athletes, innovators and others who thought creatively, achieved their dreams and advocated for the rights of neurodivergent people everywhere.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heroes of Liberty
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
Description
"Growing up, he never got the chance to know his mother and father. And he often had no money for new shoes, or even for bus fare. When Thomas Sowell left home at age seventeen, all he had in the world fit into a single suitcase. While he looked for work, he often had nothing to eat save for some stale bread and a little jelly. But Sowell refused to give in to despair or self-pity. He was determined to make his life better--and to do it on his own,...
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