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Not Our Kind
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.
One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II,...
by Thornton Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
“Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."—New York Times
Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.
Horace...
Our Town
A Play in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning...
by Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.
One of the Beat Generation’s most renowned poets and...
Strange Stones
Dispatches from East and West
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his...
A Teacher's Guide to Our Town
Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This...
Extraordinary Theory of Objects
A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July—with a touch of Joan Didion—in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social awkwardness...
by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.
Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone...
Insurrections of the Mind
100 Years of Politics and Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine.
Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted...
Devil Sent the Rain
Music and Writing in Desperate America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
“WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic." —Douglas Brinkley
Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American...
by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title
"For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline," (Madeleine Albright) in this collection of essays and letters from E.B. White.
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in...
by Francine Prose
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens...
Don't Call Me Princess
Essays on Girls, Women, Sex and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in...
Botanical Shakespeare
An Illustrated Compendium of all the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame...