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Deliver Us
Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes
Over...
Turtle Recall
The Discworld Companion . . So Far
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For every Pratchett fan, the must-have fully updated guidebook to Discworld!
The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.
It is...
Metaphors Be With You
An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere.
In...
The Final Solution
A Story of Detection
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines...
Bookends
Collected Intros and Outros
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
In Bookends,...
by Shohreh Aghdashloo
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, a dazzling memoir of family, faith, and hope.
When Shohreh Aghdashloo was...
The Lamp with Wings
Love Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
A winner of the 2010 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Ilya Kaminsky (author of Dancing in Odessa, recipient of the 2004 Whiting Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, among other honors, and co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry), Vizsolyi’s work perpetuates NPS’s tradition...
How Did I Get Here?
Making Peace with the Road Not Taken
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended?
Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the Talking Heads classic song "Once in a Lifetime." Based on an essay he wrote...
by Jeff Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” —Maclean’s
Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence,...
by Richard Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent...
My Invented Country
A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit; and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today.
The book circles around two life-changing...
300 Days of Sun
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters’ Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past—where two women, decades apart, are drawn...
by Austin Kleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.”
— Ephermerist
Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout Poetry: Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and...
News from Heaven
The Bakerton Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.
Exploring themes of restlessness,...