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Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1961, A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersper...

Reducere. Description"John Verdon writes grown-up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well-developed characters and crimes that...

Reducere. In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed author David James Duncan braids his contemplative, rhapsodic, and activist voices together into...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical." --The Wall Street Journal "Ismail Kadare's rea...

These award-winning stories are full of grit and hope, good sex and bad luck. Bill Roorbach's men are sweet and passionate and usually kind. They m...

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. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Be...

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories hav...

Reducere. Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune after he died. Here, Hilary Spurling shows tha...

Reducere. In these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion--this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether wr...

DescriptionFinalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "In this suspenseful novel . . . Boyd gives a chilling portrait of the white terror...

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 ...

DescriptionMarion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, c...

DescriptionShortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award "Urgent, unnerving and tightly packed short fiction that covers enough ground for a lib...

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...

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...

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...

"With its keen attention to the language and tactics of the church, Hall's memoir is unique among the assortment of Scientology reports and expos s...

Reducere. In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery. The setting: ...

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...

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. "This upsetting account of a Los Angeles serial killer, written with passion by Christine Pelisek, an investigative crime reporter who spent 10 yea...

Reducere. DescriptionNow available in paperback, the most comprehensive--and only author-authorized--Wendell Berry reader. "America's greatest philosopher on...

Description"The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry's corpus." --The Paris Review Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has e...

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. Description"A page turner . . . heart-stopping and enraging . . . focused, justified, and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy...

In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published...

Reducere. This novel is a fictionalized autobiography of the author's boyhood in the the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child.

Reducere. An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and ...

Another brilliant example of Evan Connell's art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his ...

Reducere. Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel "A unique tour de force" --The New York Times Book Review "One of the most remarkable b...

"A writer of exceptional gifts and grace." --Joyce Carol Oates A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps ...

Reducere. Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a -pre-ministerial student- at Pigeonville College. There, freedom...

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...

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. Award NameAlex AwardsAward categoryAdult/For Young AdultsDescriptionThe life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divid...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction of 2018 "Geni's character-driven environmental thriller--think Silent Spring by way of Celeste Ng--...

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...

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: ...

Reducere. Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning wit...

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. 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...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the ...

"This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just...

These profound Zen Buddhism teachings explained in ordinary language from one of the most respected Zen masters of the 20th century are "an essenti...

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. 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...

Reducere. Written over 20 years, these stories are domestic tapestries of the emotional lives and psychologies of lovers, quarrelling married couples, weary ...

"Not simply a narrative history: it raises the larger question of what constitutes the Americanization of Zen."

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...

"M.F.K Fisher's latest excursion into the art or science of gastronomy is more an anthology of the finest writing on the subject than strictly a te...

Reducere. "Straight's portrayal of a black woman's life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of ...

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. 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, ...

Reducere. Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber...

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." ...

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...

Reducere. A collection of essays explores the impact of indigenous cultures with stable communities on the conservation of biological diversity in natural ha...

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. Though perhaps better known for her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud and poet Robert Lowell, Caroline Blackwood remains a woman who...

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...

A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan Mc...

Reducere. An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker ...

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. Following her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and histori...

A companion to Still Lives--a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection--this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art worl...

"Readers will treasure Harrison's rich characterization and sharp turns of phrase." --Publishers Weekly, Starred and Boxed Review It is New York, 1...

The books collected in this volume represent the first time since the mid-nineteenth century that the four seminal masterworks of ancient Chinese t...

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...

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...