Books imprint: 120884 books
by Elspeth Davie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Introduced by Giles Gordon. Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the...
Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage
Stories of Our Most Admired President
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
How Lincoln's Faith Shaped His Leadership
Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together. But for all that's been written, little has focused on his faith and how this quality shaped...
Summary and Analysis of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Based on the Book by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Irena’s Children tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Tilar J. Mazzeo’s book.
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
Longlisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Kirkus Reviews**’s Best Fiction of 2017**
Kirkus Reviews**’s Best Debut Novels of 2017**
Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels: 2017
The New York Times Book Review’s Editors’...
by Lewis Nordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1996
Introduction by Richard Howorth and foreword by the author. The incomparable Lewis Nordan's first two collections of short fiction--WELCOME TO THE ARROW-CATCHER FAIR and THE ALL-GIRL FOOTBALL TEAM--originally published in 1983 and 1986, have long been out of print in all editions. Collectors' items,...
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault...
Summary and Analysis of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Based on the Book by Jane Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Dark Money tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jane Mayer’s book.
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Summary and Analysis of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Based on the Book by Sebastian Junger
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Sebastian Junger’s book.
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Summary and Analysis of Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Based on the Book by David Oshinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Bellevue tells you what you need to know—before or after you read David Oshinsky’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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Gettysburg
Three Days That Saved the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Regarded as the turning point of the American Civil War, Gettysburg commemorates a three-day battle that took place in an unimportant” Pennsylvania town over one hundred and fifty years ago. From the first shots fired at 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1863 in a field west of Gettysburg, along the Chambersburg...
Code Name: Lise
The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
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by Lt.-Col. Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
In October 1942, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force in the North African desert. Over the next year ‘Popski’s Private Army’ carried out a series of daring raids behind the German lines that were truly spectacular—freeing prisoners, destroying installations,...
Falling Through Space
The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Ellen Gilchrist, famed Southern storyteller, author of more than a dozen books and winner of the National Book Award, has long been a subject of fascination among readers.
Now, with this collection of essays, readers can explore the legend throughout her career. From the Mississippi plantation...
by Lowie Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1922. This fascinating book contains detailed descriptions of fifty six Waterloo Cups and their winners from 1867 to 1921. The illustrated contents also include: The Sport and Its Intricacies – Evolution of the Waterloo Cup – Bab at the Bowster – Pupping – Remarkable...