 | Memories of John Lennon
by Yoko Ono
HarperEntertainment Orig. $24.95
Our Price: $8.99 | John Lennon... as much a part of our world today as he ever was He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of life — including some of the great artists of our day — reminisce about Lennon as a visionary and friend, musician and performer, husband and father, activist and jokester. more... |
 | The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy
by Frances Stonor Saunders
Fourth Estate Orig. $25.95
Our Price: $7.99 | "There were good ways to die,and there were bad ways to die." So begins this effervescent history of an Italy about to shake itself free of the medieval age and move confidently into the Renaissance.First, though, there was an ordeal to pass through, one worthy of the imagination of Dante. Unleashed by a pause in the cataclysmic Hundred Years' War, hordes of soldiers with an appetite for pillage swooped down on the opulent city-states of Italy — bloated with gold from trade and the birth of the modern banking industry — and commenced to unburden them of their wealth. more... |
 | Madeleine Is Sleeping
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Harcourt Orig. $22.00
Our Price: $6.99 | When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. more... |
 | Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood
by Nancy Schoenberger
Da Capo Press Orig. $18.00
Our Price: $4.99 | You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). more... |
 | Divine and Human
by Leo Tolstoy
Zondervan Orig. $19.99
Our Price: $6.99 | Divine and Human stands apart as both a landmark in literary history and master-piece of spiritual and ethical reflection. Suppressed in turn by the tzarist and Soviet regime, the tales contained in this book have, for the most part, never been published in English until now. more... |
 | Painted Shadow
by Carole Seymour-Jones
Nan A. Talese Orig. $35.00
Our Price: $7.99 | “It was only when I saw Vivie in the asylum for the last time I realized I had done something very wrong.--She was as sane as I was.” –Maurice Haigh-Wood, Vivienne Eliot’s brother, shortly before his death.By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. more... |
 | The Rosary
by Garry Wills
Viking Adult Orig. $24.95
Our Price: $7.99 | A simple strand of beads and a crucifix, the rosary has been an aid to prayer, contemplation, and religious worship for centuries. In this superb book, Garry Wills looks at the meaning of the beads and at the mysteries, or events, in the lives of Jesus and Mary that the beads are meant to signify. more... |
 | There Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: The Life of Woody Guthrie
by Anne Neimark
Atheneum Orig. $17.95
Our Price: $6.99 | Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back; This land was made for you and me. We still sing his songs. We still hum his tunes. And many of us still heed his message. more... |
