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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In this uplifting memoir, the acclaimed singer reflects “on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring” (Booklist).
Jessye Norman is one of the world’s most admired and beloved singers—and her life story is as moving and dramatic as the great operatic roles she has performed on...
by Eudora Welty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1979
This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor).
From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and...
The Lion Seeker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
National Jewish Book Award Winner: A family saga set in WWII-era South Africa offering both “page-turning thrills [and] a painful meditation on destiny” (NPR, All Things Considered).
Called “a latter-day Exodus” by Kirkus Reviews, The Lion Seeker is an epic historical novel centered on...
The N Word
Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari...
Live Through This
A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
An “achingly beautiful” memoir about a mother’s mission to rescue her two teenage daughters from the streets and bring them back home (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job...
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading.
Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor...
Hello, Gorgeous
Becoming Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“Masterful . . . Many books have been written about Streisand but few, if any, put readers as close to the subject as Mann does” (Miami Herald).
A legendary singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker with multiple Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and even two Peabody awards to her name, Barbara...
Anything Can Happen
Notes on My Inadequate Life and Yours
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
A look at the human comedy from a prize-winning writer who is “bright, funny and tells it like it is” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
In this insightful collection, an accomplished essayist and humorist offers a class in “Tyranny for Beginners;” warns about the snares of dinner parties; explains...
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's...
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The “moving” true story of a woman fighting to give a group of chimpanzees a second chance at life (People).
In 1997, Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like...
Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.
This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,”...
For Today I Am a Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A son of Chinese immigrants discovers his true self in a “sharply written debut . . . a coming-of-age tale for our time” (Seattle Times).
Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Winner
2015 PEN/ Hemingway Award, Finalist
Lambda Literary Award, Finalist
Longlisted...
Cinderella Man
James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: This true Depression-era story of a down-and-out fighter’s dramatic comeback is “a delight” (David Halberstam).
James J. Braddock was a once promising light heavyweight. But a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the...
In the Loyal Mountains
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1995
“Bass’s fiction takes us to the borders of civilization, where we glimpse an untamed world of myth and mystery” (Entertainment Weekly).
In this “moving and self-assured collection” of short fiction, enormous pigs charge through the streets and root under houses; a woman runs up and down...