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Linda Ronstadt, whose 45-year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins and rise to stardom in the music scene of the 1960s and '70s.
In Simple Dreams (Simon & Schuster), Ronstadt reveals the eclectic and fascinating journey that led to her long-lasting success, including stories behind many of her beloved songs.
Ronstadt will be joined in conversation by Peter Ames Carlin, author of Bruce.
If Julia Child stood for anything, it was the pleasure found in sharing good food with good people, working hard and being content (even when things aren't going your way), and living with joy and abandon.
In Karen Karbo's new book, Julia Child Rules (Skirt!), she shares the universal themes we can all learn from the master of French cooking and shows us how to savor life.
In his long-awaited new novel, Subtle Bodies (Knopf), Norman Rush, author of the National Book Award-winning Mating, returns home, giving us a sophisticated, often comical romp through the particular joys and tribulations of marriage and the dilemmas of friendship.
Subtle Bodies is filled with unexpected, funny, telling aperçus alongside a deeper, moving exploration of the meanings of life.
With his first novel in 20 years, National Book Award-winner Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul (Atlantic Monthly Press).
Set over 50 years and in four countries backdropped by different wars, Shacochis's new novel brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.
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