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Henry and June
From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1990
This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
Vol. 1 (1931-1934)
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1969
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
When We Were the Kennedys
A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
“Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form…With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!”—Andre Dubus III, author of House of...
I Can't Complain
(All Too) Personal Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
From the beloved and acclaimed novelist, a collection of witty, moving essays.In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they’re old friends. Now she shares an even more intimate world with us—her own—in...
Algernon, Charlie, and I
A Writer's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. With admirable...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world,...
The Pattern in the Carpet
A Personal History with Jigsaws
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her...
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home
Life on the Page
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
“In her keen-eyed and hilariously funny new book . . . novelist and memoirist Lynn Freed tells how writers deal with life’s large and little tribulations” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
These eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a...
Among the Janeites
A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
For anyone who has ever loved a Jane Austen novel, a warm and witty look at the passionate, thriving world of Austen fandom
They walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Austen’s legion of devoted...
Sugarhouse
Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage
When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a...
A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...
An Ocean of Air
Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories...
The Monk in the Garden
The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by...
Einstein's Greatest Mistake
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well” (Popular Science).
In this “fascinating” biography, the acclaimed author of E=mc2 reveals that in spite of his indisputable brilliance, Albert...