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The Gospel According to the Son
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his...
Cathedral of the Wild
An African Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star
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Blind Descent
The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
“Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first.”—Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDivers
In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the...
by Gregory Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Patagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where the violent weather spawned over the southern Pacific charges through the Andes with gale-force winds, roaring clouds, and stinging snow. Squarely athwart the latitudes known to sailors as the roaring...
The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought...
Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition,...
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew...
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Some Thoughts on Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.
Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website...
A Widow for One Year
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1999
“A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.”—USA Today
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth...
by Phillip Whitten
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
**The all-purpose guide to swimming, for beginners and experts alike, that will help make you fitter, faster, more efficient, and more knowledgeable about this wonderful sport. **
The Complete Book of Swimming is written for those folks who want to become physically fit and stay physically...
Terrorist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
The terrorist of John Updike’s title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur’an as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened...
A Natural
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
From dreams of soccer glory to the realities of the minor leagues, the high-stakes world of English football comes to life in this vivid coming-of-age novel for fans of Nick Hornby and The Art of Fielding.
After his unceremonious release from a Premier League academy at nineteen, Tom feels...
Golf Dreams
Writings on Golf
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six. Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game....
Black Wave
A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
“I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so. I looked over the scene of our wrecked life and I smiled–a crazy smile for sure–and I looked through the...