Helen Plum Library

The murdered Mexican singer's husband shares his recollections and memories of their relationship, both personal and professional, and clarifies certain misconceptions about her life and death

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold. Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with...

The author records her experiences training to become a nun and answering God's call by caring for Baron von Trapp's seven motherless children

A folk music icon discusses the height of her career in the 1960s, her alcoholism, her love affair with Stephen Stills, and her friendships with Joan Baez, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and others

In this intimate portrait, Mann incisively illuminates Streisand's climb to fame before she became the icon

This book examines the life and musical career of Janis Joplin

Follows the beloved American jazz singer's rise to fame, describing the difficult historical and cultural factors that she overcame