Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, Paperback - Charles Baxter

Reducere. Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Rosem...

Reducere. Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the...

Reducere. In what the San Francisco Chronicle called "an epic work of investigative journalism that lays bare our nation's brutal and counterproductive juven...

Reducere. DescriptionDebra Spark's Curious Attractions remains a hugely popular fiction writing guide thirteen years after its publication. Now, she tackles ...

The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical acclaim and heaps of contempt for its reimagining of Shirley Jackson's horror novel. This col...

Reducere. Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writ...

A tense and claustrophobic psychological thriller, from the author of The Lost Village and The Ghost Hunters

Reducere. Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, ...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Savala NolanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 213 x 19Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Reducere. Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out i...

Reducere. Charles Carter (1887-1968) wrote this book in London during World War II. It was his first book in more than a dozen years. In this book, Carter tu...

Reducere. The secrets of lives not shared, not taken, not known, all can be found in the eclectic fiction of author Charles Payseur. A sentient star deals wi...

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

Publisher: Random HouseAuthor(s): Jonathan KellermanPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 160 x 233 x 27Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectu...

Reducere. A high-profile lawsuit erupts into chaos, revealing its place in a larger spree of violence in this scandalous tale of lust, lies, and vengeance. A...

Reducere. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our unders...

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn ...

Reducere. In a new world isolated by a rising, toxic sea, a single bridge connects Askala to the Outlands. Those who remain will need to pass a Proving to de...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green. The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, i...

DescriptionIn the tradition of John Jeremiah Sullivan and David Foster Wallace, Cheston Knapp's Up Up, Down Down "is an always smart, often hilario...

Reducere. "In this remarkable first novel Mr. Baxter does a great deal more than show promise; if there is any justice in the world he has arrived." - "Times...

Reducere. DescriptionA mountain falls down and an alpine village is frozen in its summer state. When a ghostly figure appears beyond the last house, the vill...

Reducere. An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thrill...

Reducere. Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek. A farmer goes missing after a blue in the pub. A teenage couple fail to show up for w...

The Atom To Be Split collects new and selected essays by Robert Zaller on the work and career of Robinson Jeffers, whose prophetic verse, more than...

Reducere. Your next trip to Five Island Cove...this time to face a fresh future and leave all the secrets and fears in the past.Kelli is ready to make memori...

Reducere. Mark's Gospel is fast-paced and action-packed. In this volume, Chuck unpacks both Jesus' story and how Mark wants his readers to see themselves in ...

Reducere. In this vivid and deeply felt collection of essays, Ron Hansen talks about his novels, childhood, family, and mentors such as John Gardner. He expl...

Reducere. Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the...

DescriptionWhen the early Christian author Tertullian asked what Jerusalem has to do with Athens, he could not have anticipated the intellectual, c...

Publisher: Cinder HousePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de...

Contributor(s): Author: Rosemary PardoeIntroduction by: David SuttonTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M. R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is...

Reducere. CARL is destined for success if he can withstand the many downfalls that plague his generation in the cold, unforgiving city of Chicago, Illinois. ...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose ...

Reducere. "Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALHe has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for ...

Down to the Potter's House is a 1921-1942 historic novel that takes the tenacious Gracie Maxwell from the quicksand of mediocrity to higher ground ...

Suitable for 3-5 year olds, this title lets them join Rosa and Tom as they travel to the frozen North... and into a whole heap of trouble. It intro...

Reducere. Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently...

What is it about lighthouses that stirs the heart and sparks the imagination? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless always vulner...

Reducere. ``In Nature, Love, Medicine, nearly two dozen writers, poets, scientists, and healers reflect on what loving and needing nature really means to the...

Reducere. Nicole Walker writes with dazzling liquidity. --ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of Zoologies Nicole Walker made cheese and grew tomatoes as a means...

Reducere. Pocket Workshop collects twenty-eight essays by instructors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop - essays that illuminate their authors' experience...