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Scott Fitzgerald
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment.
This book, by the acclaimed...
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.
In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin “leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard...
Neruda
The Biography of a Poet
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history
Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In...
by Dr. Alexander Hamilton.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Alexander Hamilton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland; graduated in 1737 from medical school and immigrated to Maryland in 1739. During this time colonial America was an evolving society. The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is a primary source from which we gain insight to the societies and towns...
The Road to Monticello
The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of...
The Ministry of Truth
The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, *The Atlantic *
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War,...
The Brothers Vonnegut
Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House...
The Death of Ben Linder
The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In...
Alligators in B-Flat
Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during...
Lighting Out for the Territory
How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn can’t stand it—he’s been there before.
It’s...
by E. B White
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.
These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White’s life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life....
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance...
by Steven G Carley
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
“Motivation Theories, Theorists, and Emotion” profiles theories of motivation and goes into detail pertaining to personal constructs and incentives. Sources of motivation can be both internal or external as the relationship among motivation and behavior is explained by the sequence of motivation. Enjoy a brief description of both theories of emotion and motivation.
Literary Philadelphia
A History of Poetry & Prose in the City of Brotherly Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
“Peppered with many . . . unexpected literary treasures . . . A wonderful introduction to/overview of [Philadelphia’s] abundant literary heritage” (Philly.com).
Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for...