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by Roz Chast
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents,...
Chief Engineer
Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"A welcome tribute to the persistence, precision and humanity of Washington Roebling and a love-song for the mighty New York bridge he built." -The Wall Street Journal
Chief Engineer is the first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story-Washington Roebling, builder...
Group f.64
Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Group f.64 is perhaps the most famous movement in the history of photography, counting among its members Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. Revolutionary in their day, Group f.64 was one of the first modern art movements equally defined by women. From...
Videocracy
How YouTube Is Changing the World . . . with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can’t Stop Watching
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world.
Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, “Gangnam Style,” the “Bed Intruder” song, an ASAPscience explainer, Rebecca...
The Age of Comfort
When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age...
How Paris Became Paris
The Invention of the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities,...
I Was Vermeer
The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim...
by Kate Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
For fans of Alexander McCall Smith and James Runcie's Grantchester Mysteries, the first novel in a clever new crime series about Victorian London and an indomitable female detective.
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in London with her confidante and...
Bad Cop
New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In 2001, Paul Bacon was a typical young guy in New York: overeducated, liberal, hip, a little aimless. But when 9/11 came, he was galvanized into action. Feeling that he had to do something to help his fellow man, he raced to Ground Zero, where he stood around for several days before finally realizing...
The Searchers
The Making of an American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
New York Times Bestseller
Named one of the best books of the year by:
Parade
The Guardian
Kirkus
Library Journal
The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John...
by Karen Novak
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Nestled in a hidden valley, Lágrimas is the last stop for a host of eccentric and questionable souls. When Joyce arrives looking for her son on a tip from a hitchhiker who claims to have seen him there, she settles in a bit too quickly for the locals' comfort. Much to her crushing disappointment,...
Vow
A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Monogamy is one of the most important vows we make in our marriages. Yet it is a rare spouse who does not face some level of temptation through the allure of other people. Sometimes the issues are resolved before anyone is hurt. But sometimes, as with Wendy Plump's marriage, the fallout is confronted...
by Tom Standage
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
New York Times Bestseller
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history.
Written with authority and charm by journalist Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens...
Taste
The Story of Britain through Its Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
Written with a storyteller's flair and packed with astonishing facts, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food, the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly, mixing tales of culinary stars with...