Reducere. In these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion--this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether wr...
Reducere. Celebrity and crime pay off big time for an American sociopath in Paris in "one of the great joys in new noir fiction" (Los Angeles Review of Books...
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Reducere. From the late novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, a collection of essays-almost all of them unknown to her countless American admirers-on ...
Reducere. Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human exper...
Reducere. Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary wr...
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Reducere. "This stunning novel is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: ...
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Reducere. Following her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and histori...
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Reducere. In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, -What do women want?- and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know...
Reducere. In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of the Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a re...
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Reducere. An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and ...
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Reducere. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been selected ...
Reducere. Nancy Lord celebrates a great good place-Cook Inlet, Alaska, where she and her partner have made a life together for more than twenty years.. With ...
Reducere. DescriptionThe wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here ...
Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018 A New York Times Editor's Choice A ...
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Reducere. Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth cl...
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Reducere. A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting ...
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Reducere. Dante is one of the towering figures in world literature, and yet many riddles and questions about his life and work persist. In the first full-len...
Reducere. DescriptionNow available in paperback, the most comprehensive--and only author-authorized--Wendell Berry reader. "America's greatest philosopher on...
Reducere. Director Peter Brook reveals the myriad sources driving his lifelong passion for finding the most expressive way to tell a story. Over the years we...
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Reducere. " A] searing debut." --O, The Oprah Magazine In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives v...
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Reducere. A collection of essays explores the impact of indigenous cultures with stable communities on the conservation of biological diversity in natural ha...
Reducere. David Kline has been called a ``twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau`` by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuber...
Reducere. "This upsetting account of a Los Angeles serial killer, written with passion by Christine Pelisek, an investigative crime reporter who spent 10 yea...
Reducere. For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentuc...
Reducere. Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a -pre-ministerial student- at Pigeonville College. There, freedom...
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Reducere. ``If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability...
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Reducere. Description"A riveting portrayal of the joys and mysteries of growing up, and of friendship itself." --People Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who...
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Reducere. A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the...
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Reducere. DescriptionNamed one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction of 2018 "Geni's character-driven environmental thriller--think Silent Spring by way of Celeste Ng--...
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Reducere. Having practiced zazen for more than half a century, Robert Aitken sits today as the senior American Roshi, a teacher of broad reputation and conse...
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Reducere. Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning wit...
Reducere. Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Here in Berlin is one of the most interestin...
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Reducere. In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery. The setting: ...
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Reducere. These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism fro...
Reducere. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Be...
Reducere. With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and al...
Reducere. In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Budd...
Reducere. Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, ...
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Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical." --The Wall Street Journal "Ismail Kadare's rea...
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Reducere. The ``raging frenzy`` of the sex drive, to use Plato's phrase, has always defied control. However, that's not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians...
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Reducere. Award NameAlex AwardsAward categoryAdult/For Young AdultsDescriptionThe life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divid...
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Reducere. Description"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that...
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Reducere. DescriptionNamed a Best Book of 2018 for Aging Well "A smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age." ...
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Reducere. Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman who...
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Reducere. "Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what's called for in the...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . No...