Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Listen
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Listen is a memoir of voices, the voices of parents that linger in the ears of children until the day when those children are able to sound their own note. A domineering father and a professor of languages and literature in the 1950s and '60s, Victor has four women trapped in his orbit-his long-suffering...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first...
Sophia
Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the...
Daphne
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession; of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures; of love lost, and love found; of the way into imaginary worlds, and the way out again. The book is written in three entwined parts, which follow Daphne du Maurier herself, the beautiful,...
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
The Best of Howard Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts,...
by Ms. Salina Yoon
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
From Geisel Honor-winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon comes a lush, heartwarming audio eBook about unbreakable friendship and celebrating what makes you unique.
Dennis is an ordinary boy who expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Some children do show-and-tell. Dennis mimes his. Some children...
Authorisms
Words Wrought by Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
An entertaining, illuminating lexicography of words coined by authors throughout the ages, published on the "sesquiquadricentennial†? (450th anniversary) of Shakespeare's birth.
William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or...
Gardens of Awe and Folly
A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Nine masterpiece gardens.
Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy.
From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is always something to learn about being human
from a great garden.
Paradise in Chains
The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.
The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48...
The Art of Losing
Poems of Grief and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.†? -Billy Collins
The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems...
Disordered World
Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Born into a Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, acclaimed writer Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book, The Crusades through Arab Eyes, was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after 20 years. In Disordered World, Maalouf...
by Adam Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Adam Feinstein's book is the first English-language biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Relating Neruda's remarkable life story and delving into the literary legacy of the man Gabriel Garcia Marquez called "the greatest poet of the twentiehth-century-in any language,"...
Havana
A Subtropical Delirium
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city...
Yankee Come Home
On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor.
In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost-and now...