Entries Tagged as 'biography'

Featured Audio Giveaway – October 2016 – Something in the Blood

October 3rd, 2016 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Read the full description. Something in the Blood By David J. Skal Read by James Patrick Cronin “Sharply written, well-researched (with judicious use of recent discoveries), attentive to detail, and entertaining to read. […]

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Hurry! Offer ends August 31

August 26th, 2015 · No Comments · Sale

Share in the childhood tales of A Girl Named Zippy. Hear Kenneth Branagh read Samuel Pepys’ exuberant 17th-century diary. Be transformed by the extraordinary women of Half the Sky. Don’t miss your chance to download these and other remarkable life stories for just $6.99! Offer expires August 31, 2015. Go Shopping!

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The high priestess of twentieth-century fashion

August 21st, 2014 · No Comments · Publishing News

Mademoiselle by Rhonda Garelick is a stunning new biography of Coco Chanel—the high priestess of twentieth-century fashion—that examines her critical place in history and the ingenious powers by which she internalized and transmitted the cultural trends of her time. Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today—and for nearly the last hundred […]

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