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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Edwin Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Washington Post most anticipated fall bookA legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.. "How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death... |
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Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate... |
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The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
Nate DiMeo - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace."One doesn't often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together.... |
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How to Sound Smart at Parties: An Evening of Fun Facts & Curious Conversations
Michael McBride - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Welcome to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended!. Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. You'll have a front row seat at the party, listening in to the early small talk - where light and fun ideas are discussed ("Did you know... |
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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly relates the dramatic last months of the Italian Campaign in a masterful volume that brings new awareness to this vital hinge point of the warAs the new year of 1944 began in Italy, the Allied army's momentum had ground to a halt... |
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
James Chappel - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others. On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until death. As the nation prospered, a new idea was born: the right to a dignified... |
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