Sam: 2572 books
by Sam Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Neil Young's Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, describing it in one breath as his "finest" album, dismissing it in the next as an MOR aberration....
One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition
An Alaskan Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years.
To...
Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Sam writes the Bookshelf column in Sunday Metro section of The New York Times and has covered a lot of our regional books. He plans to write an epilogue to our version to bring it up to date.
The Fun Parts
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called "the novelist of his generation"
Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A...
by Sam Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Pirates are often glorified as nautical Robin Hoods, heroes of the seas - and some were great navigators, map makers, and discoverers. But they were also thieves and murderers. They were undoubtedly merciless, but their crimes took place in a cruel age when even children might be hanged for stealing...
by Sam Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The extraordinary story of the mighty Temeraire, the ship behind J. M. W. Turner's iconic painting.
The H.M.S. Temeraire, one of Britain’s most illustrious fighting ships, is known to millions through J. M. W. Turner’s masterpiece, The Fighting Temeraire (1839), which portrays the battle-scarred...
The Admiral Benbow
The Life and Times of a Naval Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with.
In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main, other ships in his squadron failed to support him. His leg shattered...
The Glorious First of June
Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in mid-Atlantic after a week of skirmishing.
The French, in ships...
The Final Reckoning
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
“The biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s crown.” —Mirror (UK)
When a man’s death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest...
When I Was Cool
My Life at the Jack Kerouac School
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
First student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner tells with humor and grace his life with the Beats. But the best story is Kashner himself -- the coming-of-age of a young man in the chaotic world of the very idols he hoped to emulate.
This P.S. edition features an...
Life Isn't Everything
Mike Nichols as Remembered by 148 of His Closest Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels.
The work of Mike Nichols pervades...
by Guy Debord, Sam Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968...
War of Numbers
An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career was dominated by an epic struggle over Vietnam -- over military attempts to hide the true size of the enemy forces there, and over the integrity of the...
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
Confederate Governor and United States Senator
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the "Greatest Tennesseans" to date, the state's Confederate "War Governor," Isham G. Harris (1818--1897), ranked tenth on the list, behind such famous Tennesseans as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson,...