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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
LUCY WORSLEY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity,... |
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Breakpoint: Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises
Jeremy B C Jackson · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful look at the American environmental crisis and emerging solutions from the heartland to the coasts in the era of global climate change Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing... |
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Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime.... |
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
Adam Gopnik · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like... |
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Sam Shepard: A Life
JOHN WINTERS · Counterpoint
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 55 plays to his credit, including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, Sam Shepard's impact on American theater ranks with the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. Critics have enthused that he "forged a whole new kind of American play," while... |
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The Great American Songbook - Country: Music and Lyrics for 100 Classic Songs
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation · Hal Leonard
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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This essential compendium of country tunes includes: Abilene * Always on My Mind * Are You Lonesome Tonight? * Blue Bayou * Breathe * Butterfly Kisses * Can the Circle Be Unbroken * Cold, Cold Heart * Desperado * The Devil Went Down to Georgia * Flowers on the Wall * For the Good Times... |
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In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
Andrew Blauner · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers who loved Tune In and Nick Hornby's Songbook, an anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. The Beatles' influence - on their contemporaries, on our cultural consciousness, and on the music industry... |
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The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world
David Eagleman · Catapult
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman teams up with composer Anthony Brandt in this powerful, wide-ranging exploration of human creativity. Together, they incisively explore how individuals, organizations, and educational institutions can benefit from fostering... |
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A Comedy & A Tragedy: A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write
Travis Hugh Culley · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts his difficult journey to literacy. A Comedy & A Tragedy is the story of one young man's effort to teach himself to read. Complex and many-leveled, this book is also a manifesto... |
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Getting a Life with Asperger's: Lessons Learned on the Bumpy Road to Adulthood
Jesse A. Saperstein · Perigee Books
Format: Book
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Hard-won insights on transitioning into adulthood Author, speaker, and autism advocate Jesse A. Saperstein knows a lot about living with Asperger’s. Diagnosed at the age of 14, Jesse has struggled, triumphed, flubbed, soared, educated, and inspired. Along the road to adulthood, he has learned... |
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