"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time."...

A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...

"Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers' minds. Robert Macfarlane's spell-poems...

"An in-depth look at the mission and work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project to create quilts and blocks and to share stories to commemorate the lives lost due to social injustices. Forewords by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr."--

A book of photographs with excerpts from Sarton's verse and prose. They include one on the contemplative life, in which she writes: "loneliness is the poverty of the self ... solitude is the richness of the self."

"VAN GOGH IN SAINT-RÉMY AND AUVERS is the sequel to the highly acclaimed exhibition catalogue Van Gogh in Arles. The seventy paintings, eighteen drawings, and one etching selected for the present volume -- drawn from public and private collections throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia for exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- include some of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous images. Remarkable for their intensity and clarity of...

An illustrated biography and history of Amos F. Clough, an early 19th century photographer producing stereoscopic views and CdV (carte-de-visite) images, working in the White Mountains, including winter expeditions on Mount Washington and Mt. Moosilauke, and Connecticut River valley towns, Orford, NH, Fairlee, VT, Warren, NH, with viewable full-size stereoviews and description of photographic techniques just after the Civil War. Includes 150 high-resolution,...

"A delightful collection of gnome facts, featuring Lauren Soloy's gnome wisdom and gorgeous artwork."--

Profiles twenty-five monsters from mythology, folklore, and literature, from Medusa the gorgon and Polyphemus the cyclops to Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow.