Pearl: 495 books

Book cover of The Book of Why

The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...
Book cover of The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck, Nick Bertozzi
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017

Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi. Although more than eighty years have passed since Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth...
Book cover of Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do
by Pearl Cleage
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009

With the unique blend of truth and humor that made her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . ., a huge bestseller, Pearl Cleage returns with an extraordinary novel that is rich in character, steeped in sisterhood, and bursting with unexpected love . . . and maybe just a little...
Book cover of Just Wanna Testify
by Pearl Cleage
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed author Pearl Cleage.   Atlanta’s West End district has always been a haven and home to a coterie of unique characters—artists and thinkers, dreamers and doers. Folks here know one another’s names,...
Book cover of Till You Hear from Me
by Pearl Cleage
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Pearl Cleage's Just Wanna Testify and a Till You Hear from Me discussion guide. From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast...
Book cover of The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Pearl S. Buck’s timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer’s journey through China in the 1920s The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes...
Book cover of Sons
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

The second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of...
Book cover of The Hidden Flower
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

This New York Times–bestselling novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth is an affecting portrait of interracial love in postwar Japan. Pearl S. Buck’s The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in postwar...
Book cover of Imperial Woman

Imperial Woman

The Story of the Last Empress of China

by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

**From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: the New York Times–bestselling biography of Tzu Hsi, the concubine who became China’s last empress.   In Imperial Woman, Pearl S. Buck brings to life the amazing story of Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine status to become the...
Book cover of East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western cultures Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl—taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a flower submits to sun and rain alike.” Her marriage...
Book cover of We Speak Your Names

We Speak Your Names

A Celebration

by Pearl Cleage
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009

For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took the inspired generosity of Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many gifts of sisterhood. For three amazing days–from May 13 to 15, 2005–a distinguished group...
Book cover of The Poe Shadow

The Poe Shadow

A Novel

by Matthew Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006

“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.” Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful...
Book cover of Things I Learned From Knitting

Things I Learned From Knitting

...whether I wanted to or not

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

With a knitter’s perspective, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee describes the astonishing wisdom and hard-to-swallow truths that are embedded in everyday clichés. You’ll laugh with Pearl-McPhee as she realizes that “babies grow” after spending nights knitting a now-too-small sweater. “Beginning is...
Book cover of A Bridge for Passing

A Bridge for Passing

A Meditation on Love, Loss, and Faith

by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

The Nobel Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author’s memoir of making a movie in 1960s Japan, while mourning the loss of her husband.   Pearl S. Buck’s children’s story, The Big Wave, about two young friends whose lives are transformed when a volcano erupts and a tidal...
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