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  • José Clemente Orozco in the United States

    Renato González Mello, Diane Miliotes

    Hardback

    The complete North American work of one of Mexico's greatest muralists.

  • Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

    Jeffrey Meyers

    Paperback

    "Admirable...consistent with its subject's unassuming intelligence.... Meyers relates [Orwell's] life crisply and judiciously."—The New York Times

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

    Christoph Wolff

    Paperback

    Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.

  • Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

    Dorothea Tanning

    Paperback

    The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.

  • When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

    Chanrithy Him

    Paperback

    "A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting

    Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."