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|  | An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book -- the composer's first -- we hear from the man himself An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's life, all the while offering his opinions and abhorrences . A Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? At the end of a quarter of an hour I could bear no more . Nijinsky? The poor boy knew nothing of music . Spanish folk music? Endless preliminary chords of guitar playing . AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | A Pirate Looks at 50 by Jimmy Buffett
The spirited local detail of its Costa Rican jungles, seedy bars in New Orleans, and pirate coves of the Florida Keys, brings this adventure memoir by songwriter Jimmy Buffet to life. Buffet's intimate narrative concentrates on his passion for flying and exploration. AUTHOR: Jimmy Buffett
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder, Tom Killion
Tom Killion's woodcuts enhance this selection of four decades of journal entries by poet Gary Snyder, a pioneer of the Beat movement. Excerpts by the naturalist John Muir also help contextualize Snyder's observations on nature. AUTHOR: Gary Snyder, Tom Killion
PUBLISHER: Heyday Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Marvin Gaye by Ben Edmonds
This in-depth examination of the legendary soul album WHAT'S GOING ON--the record that catapulted Marvin Gaye into stardom--charts the origin and impact the record had on Gaye, Motown Records, and America. A focus on Gaye's collaborative and meticulous recording habits yields dozens of interviews with even the bit players involved, providing a sort of unofficial history of the Motown Era. AUTHOR: Ben Edmonds
PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Conversations with Boulez by Camille Naish, Jean Vermeil
A giant of postwar music and the most powerful figure in the contemporary French music scene, Pierre Boulez is widely known to American and English audiences as both an important composer and as star conductor of the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. These candid interviews give us vintage Boulez - his bold views, enigmatic wit, practical wisdom, and uncompromising beliefs. Here the eminent composer, who has been called both a wild man of the avant-garde and the last true maestro (New York Times), talks about being one of the world's most controversial conductors and daring programmers of musical taste. Boulez sometimes locks horns with French author Jean Vermeil, who confronts him with his past and prods him to discuss the future of music and orchestras. Boulez tells how and why he chose his battles and lays out his vision of the conductor's mission. He tells what he learned - and didn't learn - from other conductors, and how he feels about the composers who compromise his repertoire, including Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Messiaen (with whom he studied), and, of course, Boulez himself. AUTHOR: Camille Naish, Jean Vermeil
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, John F. Kennedy tells the stories of eight U.S. senators who put principle above popularity. Kennedy singled out John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Edmund G. Ross, Robert A. Taft, and four other individuals who risked their political lives to embrace their most heartfelt beliefs. AUTHOR: John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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