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The Lost History of 1914
Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it."
Chronicling...
Beasts
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain-orca whales, big cats, etc.-can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.
In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs),...
The Full Burn
On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In The Full Burn, acclaimed journalist Kevin Conley goes inside one of the coolest - and most dangerous - jobs in the world. With bravura storytelling and full access to many of the legends of the field, Conley gives a behind-the-scenes view of the stuntman's life: the history, the culture, and the...
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
History Play
The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before.
Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe...
1973 Nervous Breakdown
Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis and the Watergate hearings. It was also a year of remarkable creative ferment. From landmark movies such as The Exorcist,...
The Last Hundred Days
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Once the gleaming "Paris of the East," Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a young...
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace
The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." -Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky
Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry...
The Disinherited
A Story of Family, Love, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In the small hours of the morning of June 3, 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. Only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later did the full story emerge. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself...
by Neil Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2008
Neil Jordan's brilliant first book of stories, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, reveals a young writer already confident in the highly visual, tragic, dreamlike idiom that marks his later writing and film.
First published when he was barely twenty-five, these stories introduce us to a...
by Stephen May
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic...
The Man Who Invented Fiction
How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on...
The Sagrada Familia
The Astonishing Story of Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
An illuminating biography of one of the most famous--and most famously unfinished--buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.
The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, dominate the Barcelona skyline and draw in millions of visitors every...
1066
The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror...