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If Our Bodies Could Talk
A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene
In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk."...
Class Action
The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harrassment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of...
The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”
“Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,”...
Falling
A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children’s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë’s midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a...
I Wish I'd Been There (R)
Book Two: European History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
“What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed-and why?”
With lively and detailed accounts of some of the most dramatic events in history, some of our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe in this companion volume to I Wish...
Study Away
The Unauthorized Guide to College Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Now you can go to the college of your dreams and see the world—without compromising on your education (or your parent's budget). This for students by students guide gives you the inside scoop on colleges and programs around the world, with detailed profiles of the best international schools and...
by Colson Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.
The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants...
Household Crafts and Tips
The Foxfire Americana Library (12)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
A collection of how-tos celebrating the domestic arts of Appalachia, “Household Crafts and Tips” includes traditional advice on soapmaking and quilting, as well as in-depth instructions for making baskets, hampers, cornhusk brooms, and hanging gourds for purple martins.
Foxfire has brought...
by Thisbe Nissen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
When Roz Rosenzweig meets Edwin Anderson fumbling for keys on the stoop of a Manhattan walk-up, the last thing on her mind is falling for a polite Nebraskan–yet fall for him she does. So begins Thisbe Nissen’s breathtaking debut novel, a decidedly urban fairy tale that follows Roz and Edwin as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more.
That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
A House Among the Trees
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant—a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an...
by Mark Richard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In the brilliant idiom of a modern Melville or Conrad, an odyssey of discovery by a bold and outrageous talent--the PEN/Hemingway Award--winning author of The Ice At The Bottom Of The World.
The Heavenly Table
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land...
Ethical Wisdom
The Search for a Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil. Mark Matousek arrives at the answer in Ethical Wisdom.
Contrary to what we've been taught in our reason-obsessed culture, emotions are the bedrock of ethical life; without them, human...