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Biography and Memoir January 2024 |
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How Coppola Became Cage
by Zach Schonfeld
How Coppola Became Cage chronicles Nicolas Cage's early career and rise to fame, examining the formative performances that made him an icon of independent cinema in the 1980s and early 1990s. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews with Cage's collaborators--including filmmakers David Lynch, John Patrick Shanley, Mike Figgis, Martha Coolidge, and Amy Heckerling--this book offers a revealing portrait of Cage's origin story as a member of the Coppola family, his early roles in low-budget teen films, and his rise to stardom with memorable performances in cult films like Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, and Wild at Heart. The book examines how Cage drew on influences as eclectic as silent cinema and German Expressionism while displaying an intense commitment to his performances both on- and off-screen. The book demystifies the actor's onscreen eccentricities and argues that his commercial failures are as interesting as his successes.
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| Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business by Greg McDonald and Marshall TerrillThis nuanced and illuminating biography of business manager Colonel Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) offers fresh insights on the relationship between Parker and his superstar client, Elvis Presley. For fans of: The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash; Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. |
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Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan
by John Matthew Smith
Blending dramatic game action with the social forces of the early 90s, an acclaimed sports historian charts Michael Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress, demonstrating how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.
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| Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith TickMusic historian Judith Tick's comprehensive and well-researched biography of trailblazing jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald utilizes concert footage, interviews, and rare archival materials to offer an insightful portrait of the "First Lady of Song." Try this next: Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes. |
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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
by Liz Cheney
The House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.
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A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy
by Kathy Kleiner Rubin
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs. He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. Bundy bashed me once in the head with the log and then attacked my roommate. He heard me moaning and came to finish me off. He never let his victims live. But he stopped suddenly when a bright light filled the room. He fled the sorority house and the light disappeared. Bundy wasn't my first brush with death, and he wasn't my last. I've long been a survivor.
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| The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam WassonEntertainment writer Sam Wesson's episodic and nonlinear biography of Francis Ford Coppola offers an inventive peek into the legendary film director's creative process and the evolution of his production company, American Zoetrope. For fans of: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone. |
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The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
by Dwight Garner
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you're holding is a product of these combined gluttonies. Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading, eating, and every combination therein, The Upstairs Delicatessen is a charming, emotional memoir, one that only Garner could write. In it, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast, lunch, shopping, the occasional nap, drinking, and dinner. Through his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates, and a portrait of Garner, eager and insatiable, emerges. This is a book to be savored, though it may just whet your appetite for more.
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Unforgiving: Lessons From the Fall
by Lindsey Jacobellis
After one of the biggest “unforced errors” in sports during the 2006 Olympics, the winningest snowboarder of all time shares how, for the next 16 years, she trained harder and learned the power of resilience, reaching the podium as a two-time Olympic gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
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Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in our Divided Country
by Adam Kinzinger
While sharing his own personal story of faith, military service and politics, the former Illinois Congressman reveals the inner workings of the House select committee's investigation into the January 6th Capitol riots, examining the forces behind the attack, which led him to break from his own party.
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A Memoir of My Former Self
by Hilary Mantel
A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mante reveals the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life.
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Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
by Leah Myers
In her melancholy debut, Leah Myers, the last person in her family enrolled as a member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, examines what it's like to be "a Native woman at the end of a culture." Read-alike: Black Indian by Shonda Buchanan.
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Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
by Patrick Mackie
Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand about his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer? Patrick Mackie leads the reader through the major and lesser-known moments of the composer's life and brings alive the teeming, swiveling modernity of eighteenth-century Europe. In this era of rococo painting, surrealist aesthetics, and political turbulence, Mozart reckoned with a searing talent that threatened to overwhelm him, all the while pushing himself to extraordinary feats of musicianship. In Mozart in Motion, we are returned to the volatility of the eighteenth century and hear Mozart's music in all its audacious vividness, gaining fresh perspectives on why his works still move us so intensely today as we continue to search for a modernity he imagined into being.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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