An American Marriage

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the bestselling author of An American Marriage

From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarka...

Reducere. A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American Marriage. A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 accordin...

Reducere. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the b...

Reducere. DescriptionNewsworthy wrestles with living in a culture infected by white supremacy where current media is distrusted, cursory, and impossible to e...

A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew--only to find something far more complicated than she ever expected--...

A Notable Memoir by the New York TimesWith echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an ...

Reducere. Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

Polygyny the practice of having multiple wives has existed since ancient times and is still practiced in many countries throughout the world. In th...

Reducere. Lakshmi, a bright student who grew up in poverty, marries and immigrates to the United States from India to provide a better life for herself and h...

Reducere. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compil...

Reducere. For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns, "a rich, haunting, immersive story of cultures at the crossroads" (Jamie Ford, bestselling author of Hotel on...

Trade paperback. Following the recent discovery of an inherited script in which showbusiness correspondent Douglas Brown interviews Gwendoline 'Gwy...

Reducere. We first meet Brooke Roper, a beautiful American woman, as she gazes from her apartment balcony at the Italian sky above and the bustling street of...

Reducere. Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US.In...

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

Reducere. DescriptionSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold M...

Reducere. Daddy Long Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, 1876-1916)...

Reducere. INTIMATE brilliantly redefines "memoir" by assembling its narratives from divergent sources: the mixed-race marriage of Paisley Rekdal's parents, t...

Reducere. DescriptionA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recol...

Reducere. A wise and loving portrait of a marriage. . . . Susanna Daniel writes beautifully of matters of the heart. -- Jennifer Haigh, author of The Conditi...

Reducere. Has Your Life Been Conscripted by an Economic Religion?Learn How to Free Yourself and Your Life Through the Power of Fastlane EntrepreneurshipBy al...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Tara, an immigrant woman in the American South, is trapped in a loveless, abusive arranged marriage, until she discovers self-love-a powerful force...

Reducere. Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American consciousness. Marcus Jackson's poetry examines the heritage of the ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to thi...

Reducere. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new...

Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.By the family reunion, that e...

An American heiress and a crown prince thought their secret marriage was annulled years ago--but now they must come face to face with their past. T...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

Winner1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to r...

Reducere. It's 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II an...

Reducere. She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war ...

Reducere. Born into a poor immigrant family, Charles works diligently to rise out of poverty. Because of this determination, he graduates from a university. ...

The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose p...

Reducere. Well-known New Mexico author, John Nichols, recounts the four-year marriage of his French mother and American father during World War II. Married i...

Reducere. Once I leave my husband's house, am I still a wife? What happens when the fairy tale marriage falls apart?Ranjani flies out of Mumbai as a young, s...

Reducere. "A collection like a circus of daredevils. . . . A bravura debut." --Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical NovelA compelling d...

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a book not to miss by USA Today * Chicago Sun-Times * New York PostDeeply involving....Rings so true. -- E...

Reducere. In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer id...

Reducere. A triumphant novel about an African-American woman who, against all odds, almost single-handedly faces down the most blatant kind of workplace disc...

Reducere. DescriptionTonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a jou...

This vivid memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life is "so raw and true you'll gasp" (O, ...

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Bo...

Reducere. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American e...

Reducere. This memoir offers an American woman's uniquely privileged view into the pastoral Scotland of today. By turns funny, heartwarming, and occasionally...

Reducere. From National Book Award-nominated writer Andrea Lee comes a gorgeously evocative epic about love, clashing cultures, and identity, set in the trop...

Reducere. Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to ...

Reducere. DescriptionToday's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite ...

Reducere. Embracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in...

Reducere. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American sociologist, author, poet, and lecturer whose influential work and unorthodox lifestyle made h...

Reducere. Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American soci...

Reducere. Two soulmates embark on an around-the-world journey, leaving the security of their well-ordered lives in search of larger truths. Forty-seven years...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jasmin DarznikWe were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl. That's when she began...

Reducere. "Thirty years. Thirty years of my life have been gifted to this man. How do I prevent making the rest of my life a testament to his infidelity? If ...

Reducere. When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the social register as a me...

Reducere. Readers familiar with David Means' electrifying work in the Los Angeles Times Book Prize -- winning Assorted Fire Eventswill recognize his extraord...

Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across A...

"Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous -- a joy to read. Molly Peacock'...

Reducere. Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is ...

DescriptionFrom royal expert Katie Nicholl, author of the bestselling William and Harry and Kate comes the most intimate and informative portrait y...

Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her arti...

DescriptionA sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples,...

Reducere. In an era where Americans are desperately seeking heroes and mentors, here is the story of how a saucy young lady from Denver, Mamie Doud Eisenhowe...

Reducere. DescriptionA compelling and haunting exploration of the secrets and shadows that can be hidden within a marriage from the New York Times bestsellin...

Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

Reducere. The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary...