Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
8 best books like Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx (Stefan Kanfer): Silent Spring, The Shape of Water, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo, The Complete World of Greek Mythology, Last Words, Woody Allen: A Biography, It's Here Now (Are You?), The Terra-Cotta Dog
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| ISBN | 0618249060 |
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...
| Author | Andrea Camilleri |
| ISBN | 0142004715 |
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes...
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
| Author | Stephanie Storey |
| ISBN | 1628726393 |
From 1501—1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself.
Michelangelo...
| Author | Richard Buxton |
| ISBN | 0500251215 |
Greek myths are among the most complex and influential stories ever told. From the first millennium BC until today, the myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. They can be found in the latest movies and television shows and in software for interactive...
| Author | George Carlin |
| ISBN | 1439172951 |
As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told...
| Author | Eric Lax |
| ISBN | 0306809850 |
When it first appeared in 1991, Eric Lax's splendid biography, written with nineteen years of access to Woody Allen, was universally hailed as the definitive portrait of a film genius. The next year, as Allen's long relationship with Mia Farrow disintegrated amid scandal, a new phase of his life and...
In his classic book Be Here Now, Ram Dass introduced the world to a young guru named Bhagavan Das. Continuing his own story in It's Here Now (Are You?), Bhagavan Das shares the profound and surreal moments of his spiritual awakening in the East, his fall from grace in the West, and his peaceful reconciliation...
| Author | Andrea Camilleri |
| ISBN | 0142004723 |
The Terra-Cotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountainous cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched...
