Lawrence: 4086 books

The astounding third offering in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, a richly detailed and extraordinary expansion of the events of Justine and Balthazar David Mountolive is a British diplomat who views love as just another everyday transaction. But as romance turns to betrayal and secret alliances...

After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times).   Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are...

A moving account of friendship and discovery on the island of Sicily from the acclaimed travel writer and bestselling author of The Alexandria Quartet. Despite decades spent writing poetic evocations of the timeless pleasures of life in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell had never set foot...

Strange, wondrous, and moving tales of unbelievable truth from a contemporary master of narrative nonfiction. Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, former New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler’s articles have throughout his long career intrigued readers with his...

With Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America’s new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight partnership...

I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; By the Dawn's Early...

The ultimate guide for every Buffy fan, the unauthorized (but highly professional and sexy) Dusted details and reviews all 144 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in exhaustive detail-with story summaries, quotes, notes on magic, character development, a rolling Slayer Kill-Count and more. Jointly...

A former member of Great Britain’s diplomatic corps, the celebrated author of the Alexandria Quartet offers eleven sketches of life in service of the crown.   After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons...

This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role...

Darwin'den bugüne yazılmış en önemli bilimsel kitap. Türlerin Kökeni'nin doğaüstücülüğe indirdiği ölümcül darbeyi, Hiç Yoktan Bir Evren kozmoloji alanında yapıyor. -Richard Dawkins- Fizik sevip de anlamayanlara fiziğin geldiği son noktayı anlatan nefis bir kitap. -Ayça...

◆雷諾瓦、高更、達利、梵谷、葛飾北齋等大家的名畫x ◆傑佛瑞．迪佛、李查德、麥可．康納利和勞倫斯．卜洛克等全球十七位天王級作家的妙筆 ◆讓全世界讀者驚呼連連的短篇佳作 去年，《光與暗的故事》的巧思奇想，出版界一片叫好，其中，推理大師勞倫斯．卜洛克貢獻的短篇新作，更為他贏得當年度的愛倫坡大獎。 今年，Pegasus重磅加碼，除了邀集夢幻名單中的傑佛瑞．迪佛、李查德和麥可．康納利等天王之外，還邀約了大衛．莫瑞爾(David...

In this major contribution to theater history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait of Lord Strange’s Men, a daring company of players that dominated the London stage for a brief period in the late Elizabethan era. During their short theatrical...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...

The Happy Minimalist is an easy read that is both timely and timeless. Written by someone who actually lives the life he advocates and consequently enjoys the many benefits of it. The author walked away from a well paying job well before the normal retirement age. He does not depend on any drugs — prescribed or otherwise. These and many more are the benefits of being a minimalist.