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Mothers and Daughters
How to Stay Close and Stay Sane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A warm, witty and wise gift for mothers and daughters.
Joan Sauers, bestselling author of Ageing Disgracefully and mother of a teenage daughter, gives us her warm, witty and wise take on the whole mother-daughter bond. With more than 300 indispensable tips, gentle advice, pithy observations...
by Julia Pierpont
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A perfect holiday gift, this beautifully illustrated collection honoring one hundred exceptional “feminist saints” throughout history is sure to inspire women and men alike.
“A new set of role models and heroes—‘matron saints’—for the feminist future.”—The New York Times...
More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs...
Dreaming
Hard Luck and Good Times in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
“Without sensationalism, totally outside the chic-trash mode, Carolyn See writes from way down inside the pain, the depression, and the lies that encumber most American lives. She knows what ‘family values’ really are, and tells her story with a hard-earned sweetness that transforms the unbearable...
Handing One Another Along
Literature and Social Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this...
George, Being George
George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative ...
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York’s East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address, would ask, “Isn’t...
Ray
Stories Of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The bestselling autobiography of one of Australia's most loved personalities is now in paperback.
Ray Martin tells the story of his less than stellar introduction to the glamorous world of television. Before Ray had even got to high school, he had lived in thirteen different places, in three...
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
My Encounters with Extraordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2001
The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back — and she's brought some friends — in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people — from the well known (Bill Blass and...
by Ilene Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Tim has a big problem. A big, tall problem named Jon. Jon always teases Tim. Then Tim gets the idea to start the Annoying Team. With the help of other kids who hate being picked on, Tim can bug Jon back. But will being annoying ever get . . . annoying?
It's the Little Things . . .
An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called “The Final Word.” In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life—clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs—and looked back on his childhood in the country with fondness and an infectious...
by Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart—mercy—which has long been the cornerstone of his faith...
The Greatest Generation Speaks
Letters and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartwarming gift for the holidays—a powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and...
S.
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego...
by Beth Yahp
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth.
In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before,...