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by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The sixth volume of the diary of “one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of [the twentieth] century” (The New York Times Book Review).
Anaïs Nin continues “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” with this volume covering more than a decade of...
The Hill of Evil Counsel
Three Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
Three stories of “sensuous prose and indelible imagery” that re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate (The New York Times).
Refugees drawn to Jerusalem in search of safety are confronted by activists relentlessly preparing for an uprising, oblivious to the...
Empress Orchid
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
“A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle).
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps...
The Last Empress
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
“Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation” (Rocky Mountain News).
During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person:...
Mule
A Novel of Moving Weight
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A young family man caught in the Great Recession turns to running marijuana cross-country to make ends meet in this “timely, witty, and fast-paced” novel (Booklist).
James and Kate are golden children of the late twentieth century, flush with opportunity. But an economic downturn and an unexpected...
Fire
From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1995
The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest.
Drawing from the author’s original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin’s journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with...
The Airmen and the Headhunters
A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly).
November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast,...
by Patricia Hampl
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a “beautiful bouquet of a book” (Entertainment Weekly).
They say “a daughter is a daughter all her life,” and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and...
Trieste
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In Italy, an elderly mother awaits a reunion with the son stolen from her by the Nazis—“A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book” (The Jewish Daily Forward).
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
From a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the twentieth-century drama that was called “the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (The New York Times).
This modern verse play by the author of The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and other modern masterpieces...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
An unassuming scientist takes an unbelievable adventure in the Middle East in this “extraordinary” novel—the inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor (The Guardian).
Dr. Alfred Jones lives a quiet, predictable life. He works as a civil servant for the National Centre...
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Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
An “informative and vividly reported book” that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive (San Francisco Chronicle).
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, and Vanity...
Crazy Woman Creek
Women Rewrite the American West
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
A “blessedly unromantic” portrait of real women’s lives in the contemporary American West (Kathleen Norris).
This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska...
A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.
Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new...