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by Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has...
The Zhivago Affair
The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit...
The New New Journalism
Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.
The New New Journalists are first and foremost...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
My Utmost
A Devotional Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A beautifully written and heartfelt memoir by a young woman from Dallas, Texas, exploring the Evangelical Christianity of her childhood and its meaning to her in the present through the classic daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
Raised in an Evangelical household by her beloved grandmother...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures.
Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice,...
Fifty Shades Darker
Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
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Look for E L James’s passionate new love story, The Mister, available now.
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship...
Words Without Borders
The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collectiontransports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature.
In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick,...
Against Everything
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . ....
The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .
—Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth...
by Sarah Boxer
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
“What are you working on?”
“An anthology of blogs.”
“I didn’t know you had a blog.”
“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”
“How do you find good blogs?”
“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
“Is...
by Anne Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron grew up fending off a sister who constantly...
Sleeping on the Wing
An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book...
by P. D. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James...