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by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, literary criticism (including notable books on Browning, Dickens, and Shaw), and works of theology and...
Churchill Style
The Art of Being Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A look at the towering twentieth-century leader and his lifestyle that goes beyond the political and into the personal.
Countless books have examined the public accomplishments of the man who led Britain in a desperate fight against the Nazis with a ferocity and focus that earned him the nickname...
Second Chances
An Inspiring Collection of Do-Overs That Have Made People's Lives Brighter
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Second Chances is a hopeful and thoughtful compendium of anecdotes from people who have wanted another chance at something—and have taken it. It’s the big stuff like going back to college after the kids have grown up, as well as the little things like getting a judo belt when you thought you could...
Commando
The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Raised in Queens, New York, Johnny Ramone founded one of the most influential rock bands of all time, but he never strayed from his blue-collar roots and attitude. He was truly imbued with the angry-young-man spirit that would characterize his persona both on and off stage. Through it all, Johnny...
The Zapple Diaries
The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This is the first full-length look at Zapple—the Beatles’ label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group’s determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the...
I Like Being Married
Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
From the reflections of famous people and the stories of everyday folk to classic love letters and contemporary "ten best" lists, this delightfully eclectic treasury shines a spotlight on the many joys of marriage.
I Like Being Married is the ultimate celebration of the ties that keep loving...
by Greg Atwan, Evan Lushing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Facebook Book, by Harvard alums and early Booksters Atwan and Lushing, follows in the fine satirical tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook and The Hipster Handbook, full of anecdotes (true and semi-true), tips (useful and useless), and other insights, including chapters on the Ethics and Etiquette...
Decorating a Room of One's Own
Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family’s cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and *Decorating a Room of One’s *Own brings literary backdrops...
Can I Sit on Your Lap While You're Pooping?
Actual Quotes from an Actual Toddler to Her Actual Dad
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
As a single dad, Matthew Carroll didn’t always have someone to share in his frequent laughter and incredulity at the various things his daughter, Morgan, said. Hoping to document some of her best commentary, Carroll took to recording her choicest quotes on his iPhone when she was between the ages...
Worst Laid Plans
When Bad Sex Happens to Good People
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
“When bad sex happens to good people, there is no recourse like full disclosure,” is the motto of Worst Laid Plans, a collection of forty probably-too-intimate, but shockingly funny, true-life tales of lust gone wrong. The stories are divided into themed sections including Foreign Affairs (“When...
Sh*tty Mom
The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Sh*tty Mom is the ultimate parenting guide, written by four moms who have seen it all. As hilarious as it is universal, each chapter presents a common parenting scenario with advice on how to get through it in the easiest and most efficient way possible. With chapters such as “How to Sleep Until...
Wrestling with God
Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The bestselling author of The Holy Longing provides an inspiring message of hope and perseverance for all of us struggling with our faith in tumultuous times
The last few decades have rapidly birthed a modern world that would have been unrecognizable fifty years ago. As long-held beliefs on...
The Way of a Pilgrim
And the Pilgrim Continues His Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...
Papal Sin
Structures of Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
"The truth, we are told, will make us free. It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin. Paler, subtler, less...