Music & Performing Arts

In this highly anticipated autobiography, famed guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones Keith Richards shares his life story. With his “trademark disarming honesty,” he writes about his childhood, learning guitar and forming a band, the Rolling Stones’ fame, the tours, his addictions, the women in his life, his feud and reconciliation with Mick Jagger, and his rock and roll life. It’s been a wild ride. And just when you thought Richards couldn’t get any cooler, he reveals that he is a bookworm with a library so extensive he once considered “professional training” so he could better manage it. Fantastic!

The Sounds of Star Wars tells the intimate details behind your favorite Star Wars sound effects. From the majestic hum of a light saber to the lowly chitter of a Jawa, every effect has a story. This lavishly illustrated tome is more than just a book: it includes a sound module that lets you listen to over 250 original sounds from the Star Wars series as you read along.

This gorgeous collection of the 100 greatest pictures of Audrey Hepburn was compiled by her son Sean Ferrer and includes rare or private pictures, published for the first time. From casual snapshots to movie stills to high fashion shoots, Ms. Hepburn looks as ravishing and lovely as ever. Besides being a wonderful actress and style icon, Hebpurn was an incredible humanitarian; fittingly, sales of this book benefit the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund.

“With Pops, his eloquent and important new biography of Armstrong, the critic and cultural historian Terry Teachout restores this jazzman to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists…[Teachout] writes with a deep appreciation of Armstrong’s artistic achievements, while situating his work and his life in a larger historical context. Pops is an emotionally detailed portrait of Satchmo as a quick, funny, generous, and observant man,” writes the New York Times. Not to be missed.