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  Queen Elizabeth I

  J.E. Neale

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  A scholarly and immensely readable, award-winning biography of the monarch known as the “Virgin Queen.” 
   
  This has long been considered the classic biography of the great Tudor Queen. It is one of the first works of history to receive both scholarly and popular acclaim—testimony, indeed, to both its authority and readability. It has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and has been translated into nine languages. 
   
  Exploring every aspect of Elizabeth’s life and rule—her shrewd policies at home and abroad—Professor Neale establishes the fact that she was unique as a strong-minded, independent woman ruling in an age of exclusively masculine power. 
   
  Praise for Queen Elizabeth I 
   
  “Entirely delightful, witty and gallant in defense, and nothing better has been said on the side of Elizabeth, on this side of idolatry.” —New York Times 
   
  “Professor Neale’s narrative is straightforward and at times brilliant. . . . A first-rate literary biography.” —New Statesman 
   
  “There can be no doubt about its scholarship. . . . Merely as a tour de force the book is a remarkable performance.” —American Historical Review

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  Hef's Little Black Book

  Bill Zehme, Hugh M. Hefner

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  The legendary founder of Playboy magazine brings readers inside his legendary, decadent world in this “breezy, charming chronicle” (Time Out New York).With the iconic Playboy magazine, the legendary Playboy Mansion, and the many other ventures he created as head of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner conjured a vision of the Good Life as no one else had dared. Now the Master Playboy of the Western World shares the secrets that have for generations made him the envy of all free-thinking men and women. Hef's Little Black Book captures lifestyle of Hugh M. Hefner as never before, with a treasure trove of urbane lore, wry advice, and time-honored wisdom spanning the realms of romance, hedonism, ambition, business, dreams, and, of course, sex. Accompanied by tantalizing, never-before-seen photographs, the gateway to Hugh Hefner's Dream World of Cool awaits you. If you don't swing, don't ring.

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  The Life of Uncle Billy -...

  William Tecumseh Sherman

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  First published ten years after the end of the Civil War, "Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman" were among the first memoirs written by one of the prominent Civil War generals. The memoirs caused a lot of controversy, especially because of the author's unfair treatment of General Grant. General Sherman replied to his critics: "...any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of facts in the truthful narration of which he is interested."
  Contents: 
  From 1820 to the Mexican War, 1846
  Early Recollections of California—1846-1848
  Missouri, Louisiana, and California—1850-1855
  California—1855-1857
  California, New York, and Kansas—1857-1859
  Louisiana—1859-1861
  Missouri—April and May, 1861
  From the Battle of Bull Run to Paducah—1861-1862
  Battle of Shiloh— March and April, 1862
  Shiloh to Memphis- April to July, 1862
  Memphis to Arkansas Post— July, 1862, to January, 1863
  Vicksburg— January to July, 1863
  Chattanooga and Knoxville— July to December, 1863
  Meridian Campaign— January and February, 1864
  Atlanta Campaign- Nashville and Chattanooga to Kenesaw— March, April, and May, 1864
  Atlanta Campaign— Battles About Kenesaw Mountain— June, 1864
  Atlanta Campaign— Battles About Atlanta—july, 1864
  Capture of Atlanta— August and September, 1864
  Atlanta and After— Pursuit of Hood— September and October, 1864
  The March to the Sea--from Atlanta to Savannah-- November and December, 1864
  Savannah and Pocotaligo-- December, 1864, and January, 1865
  Campaign of the Carolinas-- February and March, 1865
  End of the War-- From Goldsboro' to Raleigh and Washington-- April and May, 1865
  Military Lessons of the War
  After the War

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  Lost & Alone: Elvis Presley in...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  In this dynamic, hard-hitting audiobook, music biographer Geoffrey Giuliano examines the turbulent life and times of Elvis Presley. With an in-depth, insightful narration by the author, as well as rare archival, unheard interviews - here is the perfect collection celebrating the king of rock for every dedicated fan, music historian, the media, as well as all school, library, institutional, and university collections. An ultra-rare, exciting audio biography!  Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of 32 popular international best-selling biographies on the Beatles and other iconic rock groups of the 1960s. He is also a well-known Hollywood screenwriter, the voice on more than 500 popular audiobooks, as well as an actor in some 25 classic films.   Series producer Avalon Giuliano based in New York. Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan. Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok. ICON intern Eden Giuliano. Music by AudioNautix.

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  The Love Story Of WB Yeats &...

  Margery Brady

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  Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a background of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland.  The poet William Butler Yeats is a central figure in the Irish literary revival, while Maud Gonne, a political activist, is passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence.  But this is not a dissertation about Yeats' work, nor is it about the history of the day or the political involvements of Maud Gonne.  It is a love story, containing some of the most poignant poems ever written.

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  Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused...

  Howard Goldblatt

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  Stories by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, Booker Prize winner Su Tong, and more: “Takes readers into worlds the Chinese government has long tried to hide.”—The Washington Post Book World 
   
  “In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence…’The Brothers Shu,’ by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story’s earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu’s folksy ‘Fritter Hollow Chronicles,’ about peasants' vendettas and local politics, and by ‘The Cure,’ by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui’s ‘Sham Marriage’) as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun’s ‘Footsteps on the Roof’). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in ‘A String of Choices,’ Wang Meng’s tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao’s ‘Grass on the Rooftop.’”—Publishers Weekly  
   
  “Fiction that reflects the turmoil brought about by Tiananmen and the money-making ethic found in China today.”—Library Journal 
   
    
   
  Includes contributions by Shi Tiesheng, Hong Ying, Su Tong, Wang Meng, Li Rui, Duo Duo, Chen Ran, Li Xiao, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Ai Bei, Cao Naiqian, Can Xue, Bi Feiyu, Yang Zhengguang, Ge Fei, Chen Cun, Chi Li, Kong Jiesheng, Wang Xiangfu

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