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Calamities
Renee Gladman · Wave Books
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic... |
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Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner
Mark Ford · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 305
Format: Print book
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Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent... |
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Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
Garret Keizer · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocationPerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously... |
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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
Alex Wagner · One World
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people? Alex Wagner has always been fascinated by stories of exile and migration. Her father's... |
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Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home
JESSICA BERGER GROSS · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity.To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood - growing up in a "nice"... |
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Susan Swain · PublicAffairs
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians for C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived... |
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Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Harvey Kubernik · Backbeat Books
Format: Hardcover
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No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and intellectual brilliance, as Leonard Cohen. His smoke-black vocal style navigates the most sophisticated and arresting of melodies in songs infused with romance, innuendo,... |
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Karen Swallow Prior · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britains upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every... |
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The Words and Music of James Taylor
James E Perone · Praeger
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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A valuable resource for James Taylor fans and a fascinating read for anyone interested in autobiographical popular music of the past 50 years.* Pairs critical analysis of every significant composition and recording by James Taylor with historical perspective on the events of his 50-year... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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R. B. Kitaj: Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter. Autobiography
R B Kitaj · Schirmer Mosel
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is one of the most intriguing 20th century artists. Born into a Russo-Jewish family near Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year old Kitaj spent 5 years at sea aboard a Norwegian freighter. He went on to study art in New York and Vienna. A Royal College of Art stipend made him move... |
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