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Erskine Childers
1,440円 Immortalized as the author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel. Childers was orphaned at an early age. Though he was brought up in County Wicklow, he received an English education that culminated in a clerkship to the Hou...
A Nurse's Story
2,515円 The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her ...
Buddy
777円 Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family’s pet rooster. Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veteri...
Charlatan
933円 The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It w...
Titaniko lietuviai
799円 Titanikas – žymiausias pasaulyje laivas, kurio tragiškas likimas dar ir dabar kaitina visuomenės, filmų kūrėjų ir rašytojų vaizduotę. Nors Titaniką vandenyno bangos pasiglemžė prieš šimtmetį, beveik nenagrinėtas faktas, jog tarp daugiau nei 1 500 tą naktį žuvusių keleivių – trys lietuviai. Šioje ...
Kindertotenwald
1,088円 A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright’s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spect...
After the Falls
1,243円 The vivid and touching sequel to the bestselling memoir Too Close to the Falls. It's 1960 and twelve-year-old Cathy McClure has just been thrown out of Catholic school for-among other transgressions-filling the holy water fount with vodka. In the hopes of giving Cathy a fresh start away from thei...
William F. Winter and the New Mississippi
4,643円 For more than six decades, William F. Winter (b. 1923) has been one of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. His political career spanned the 1940s through the early 1980s, from his initial foray into Mississippi politics as James Eastland's driver during his 1942 campaign for the ...
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams
1,459円 The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece. The film was shot in Sweden, in summer 1985 while Tarkovsky was in exile; it turned out to be his final testament, urging each individual to take personal responsibility for everything that happens in the world. Day after day, while the film ...
Magician at Large
590円 What They’re Saying about Magician at Large The autobiography of Al Lampkin "If you’ve read Al’s book The Funniest Magic Show in the World, you don’t need any encouragement to read this one. His magic, humor and panache take him from the Magic Castle to the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. In...
Fifty Years Of Carry On
1,780円 In August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then and in the future. Not only did it become one of the top three grossing films for that year, it a...
Wives and Stunners
1,601円 Essentially a domestic biography whose main concern is the tragicomedy of manners enacted by a closely knit group of friends and lovers, Wives and Stunners tells the story of Janey Morris, Georgie Burne-Jones, Lizzie Siddall, Effie Gray and less well-known, Marie Spartali, Aglaia Coronio and Mary...
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