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Time Pieces
A Dublin Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived,...
L.E.L.
The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë...
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s...
Shoot the Widow
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine...
My Prizes
An Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles.
Written in 1980 but published here for the first time, these texts tell the story of the various farces that developed around the literary prizes Thomas Bernhard...
Autumn in Venice
Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich,...
Saint-exupery
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring...
Murder by the Book
The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
**"Enthralling . . . A page-turner that can hold its own with any one of the many murder-minded podcasts out there."
—Jezebel
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William...
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be...
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades...
by Ramachandra Guha
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival...
Charles Darwin
The Power of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still...
Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind
Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: cases in which personal contact between an individual or individuals is initiated by the “occupants” of the spacecraft. Such contact may involve the transportation of the individual from his or her terrestrial surroundings into the spacecraft, where the individual...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with...