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Mother

A Cradle to Hold Me

by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009

Perfect for Mother’s Day, or for any day on which we wish to acknowledge this all-important bond, Mother is an awe-inspiring affirmation of the enduring love that exists in every corner of the globe.   With her signature eloquence and heartfelt appreciation, renowned poet and national treasure...

Celebrations

Rituals of Peace and Prayer

by Maya Angelou
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou...
by Billy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

**WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST NATIONAL BESTSELLER** Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous...

Ballistics

Poems

by Billy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011

In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.
by Charles Bukowski
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2018

Garras del paraíso, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es el reflejo poético de una existencia vivida al límite. Charles Bukowski hunde su lírica en las drogas, el sexo y el realismo sucio de las clases más oprimidas, una desolación que siempre buscó la belleza. Escritor de culto...

Let Me Tell You

New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

by Shirley Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim...
by John Updike
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010

Rabbit, Run is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in...

Los asesinos de la luna

Petróleo, dinero, homicidio y la creación del FBI.

by David Grann
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2019

El autor de Z, la ciudad perdida, David Grann, regresa con un emocionante True Crime que desvela una de las conspiraciones más monstruosas de la historia de Estados Unidos. Best Seller de The New York Times, mejor libro del 2017 según Amazon y Ganador del Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact...
by E.L. Doctorow
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out...

Abide with Me

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In her luminous and long-awaited novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the events of her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett,...

Hausfrau

A Novel

by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS• “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”—Time “A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her...
by Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday Winner of the Whitbread Prize One...

Primary Colors

A Novel of Politics

by Joe Klein, Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009

A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern...
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