Katharine Hepburn: A Life in Pictures is an intimate view of the life of a Hollywood giant and sheds new light on the woman named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female movie star in American cinema. With a compelling mixture of celebrity photographs and casual snapshots, this collection forms a uniquely stylish portrait and captures the life of a legend, on screen and off. This book would make a wonderful gift. —Clytia Fuller

Robin Kelley’s new biography, Thelonious Monk, is a breath of fresh air among the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough, detailed, and written with a true affinity for Monk’s humaneness and creative musical output. It fills in the missing pieces about the growth of the jazz scene in New York through the forties, fifties, and sixties, detailing each step of Monk’s development—who passed through his bands, what gigs he played, and what happened on those scenes. It’s an invaluable and close look at the center of the world’s most important creative musical developments in those decades: New York City,” writes Chick Corea.