Joe Louis: The Brown Bomber - Biography of Joe Louis by His Son

Joe Louis

Barbara Munder

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

The reign of Stephen, 1135-54: Anarchy in England, (Studies in medieval history)

History

Cronne, Henry Alfred

Europe

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

AMADO, JORGE

Literature & Fiction

<p>As sumptuous, dazzling, corrupt and gorgeous as the 16th-century Italian Renaissance in which it is set, Bomarzo is the story of Pier Francesco Orsini, the hunchbacked, ruthless, but vulnerable Duke of Bomarzo, ancient fortress in the mountains outside Rome. The despised son of a family of warriors, throughout his youth Orsini endured his father's contempt and the taunts and torments of his heroic brothers, feeding his soul with visions of revenge and dreams of the sensual beauty and love denied him, preparing himself for a typically Renaissance combination of art and murder. A friend of Cellini's, a contemporary of Michelangelo's, an associate and relative of the great Italian families—De Medici, Farnese, Colonna—Orsini, as he comes of age, destroys his brothers and grasps his father's title, embroiling himself in Tuscan feuds and alliances as the great families fight over the papacy and combine to support or resist the invasion of Charles V. Yet even as Orsini plunges into the violence of plot and counterplot, of sexual liaisons and marriages for power or lust, he creates a monumental work of art on his castle's grounds, a fabulous Wood of Monsters, still standing in the hills, vast sculptures cut into limestone, figures that spring from his deepest obsessions, the mythical flowering of his dreams and desires.\nThroughout, in unforgettable detail, all the color and richness of the Italian Renaissance is revealed: princes and harlots, courtesans and cardinals, alchemists, artists, and artisans, emperors, assassins and scholars proceeding to festivities, coronations, weddings, journeys, battles and sieges from the plains of Picardy to the sea-borne conflagration at Lepanto. With a combination of scenic and historical description and modern psychological complexity and atmospheric sensitivity, Mujica Laínez has created a miracle of historical literature.</p>

Bomarzo

Manuel Mujica-Lainez

My Bolivian aunt: A memoir

BEATON, Cecil

Landmarks in Greek Literature

BOWRA, C.M.

Ancient & Medieval Literature

“What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly, Bellow is one of God’s spies.” –Los Angeles TimesIn six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on the brink of despair; in “the old System,” a distinguished biochemist tries to find room in his life for love; and in “A Father to Be,” a man is startled to find himself seated next to his future adult son on a New York subway. The other stories, too, reflect Bellow’s special ability to depict men and women confronting, in highly idiosyncratic ways, the enigmas and oddities of existence.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Mosby's memoirs,: And other stories

BELLOW, SAUL.

Once a model and now a mother of two, Emma has little life of her own. When her husband David is invited to star in two plays in Hereford, and Emma is obliged to leave her beloved London behind, the resentment begins to surface.

Garrick Year

DRABBLE, Margaret

<p>Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had adored her elder sister, but Louise had grown up to be an arrogant, selfish, cold and extravagant woman. She was also breath-takingly beautiful. The man she was to marry, Stephen Halifax, was a successful novelist, very rich and snobbishly unpleasant. From Sarah's first night at home she began to question Louise's motives in this loveless match.A Summer Bird-Cage is the story of Louise's marriage as seen through Sarah's eyes. It is also the story of a year in Sarah's own life. She is a young woman, intelligent and attractive, just down from Oxford, but completly at loose ends without close friends or a lover. What she discovers about herself is as fascinating as what she discovers about love, infidelity and her sister Louise.</p>

A Summer Bird-cage

MARGARET DRABBLE

Contemporary

Journey into Romanesque: A traveller's guide to Romanesque monuments in Europe

Nebolsine, George A

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