U & I. A True Story, Paperback - Nicholson Baker

Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.Publisher:...

Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex – sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic clas...

An electrifying and hilarious novel about the mundanity of office life, reissued for Granta Editions.

A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.Publisher: Gra...

A memoir of two lives shared in love and happiness over sixty-one years. Recounting everyday life with anecdotes from adventures during extensive t...

DescriptionThe author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae o...

This gritty but inspiring true story of the award-winning author Alex Wheatle is written for emerging readers, particularly those who are offenders...

Reducere. "You can't say enough about Bill Gainer's poetry. He is a keen observer armed for gentle combat with words and how they shine the light on our sens...

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his v...

Flipping through a bag of old photographs, Lynn Hellers relives her traumatic childhood growing up in the low-income row houses of Kingston, Ontari...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholson BakerBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Level 1: Starting to Read - Simple stories - Increased vocabulary - Longer sentences Norman is a dog who cannot see. One day, he is at the beach. H...

Reducere. The poor dog is lost in the woods. How long has he been there? Where is his family? He thinks these things as he finds shelter under the nearest tr...

Reducere. The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.True, she had stopped coming dow...

Reducere. From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that...

Reducere. In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the ...

Reducere. BESA recounts my life, beginning as a young boy of a large, happy three-generation family living together in southern Albania. The Bylykbashi's wer...

Reducere. This true story will keep you captivated from beginning to end. It's about my relationship with my older brother who I idolized and the influence h...

Reducere. "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." --NatureA magnificent (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious ...

DescriptionWINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graha...

Reducere. Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the ma...

Reducere. West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlin...

Reducere. Have you experienced the deepest point of your life where you have nothing but your unwavering faith in God? For twenty-three-year-old Jagada Chamb...

Reducere. DescriptionOne cold night in November 1971, 13-year-old Kathy Lynn Gloddy went missing. Her beaten, bruised body was found on the cold ground the n...

DescriptionIt is 1938 when the Kolbers, affluent Viennese Jews, flee their country for Shanghai after its annexation by the Nazis. Eva and her daug...

Reducere. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was purchased at auction for a staggering $450 million. The exchange rippled beyond the art world into ...

It's hard to know when you're having a breakdown in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are almo...

Reducere. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It s been two years since he...

Reducere. On a great river lined with chalk rock faces and shedding cottonwoods, amidst a sea of tall grass seeded with feathered tops, there was a small tow...

Reducere. In the final book of the Shepherd Children of Fatima series, children will be inspired to follow the example of Blessed Jacinta Marto, the youngest...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Justine CowanNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 203 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

Reducere. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children ...

Reducere. HERE IF YOU NEED ME is the story Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness - as she holds her family together in the wak...

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into t...

Reducere. A vivid portrayal of Heaven and HellJust over one hundred fifty years ago, in Berlin, New York, twenty-five-year-old Marietta Davis suddenly fell i...

Reducere. When I started out the door, she made a running hit on me, tackling me like a football player. She hit me between the shoulders with all her weight...

Reducere. In 1997, Maggie Redmon was divorcing her disbarred husband, Scott, so she wasn't at the hospital when his girlfriend Brandi-a defrocked nurse he'd ...

Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendshi...

Reducere. Description"A harrowing read, and it should be . . . enlightening . . . A disturbing and illuminating tale."--KIRKUS REVIEWSThe 1960s have come to ...