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Rebel Land

Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

by Christopher de Bellaigue
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010

An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In...
by Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review) A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is...

Prayer

Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

by Timothy Keller
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores the power of prayer. Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer...
by Sheila Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

**ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People** When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine,...
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis...
by Keith Gessen
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

**A New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture "This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times** "Hilarious, heartbreaking...
by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 1977

The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The...
by Pat Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005

For the hundreds of thousands who buy writers’ guides every year, at last there’s one that tells the ugly truth: writers who can’t get published are usually making a lot of mistakes. This honest, often funny,  book shows them how to identify their own missteps, stop listening to bad advice,...

On the Grand Trunk Road

A Journey into South Asia

by Steve Coll
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, a trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars...

The Good Story

Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

by J. M. Coetzee, Arabella Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

**J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with...

Boys and Girls Forever

Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

by Alison Lurie
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002

Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including...

Drawing Down the Moon

Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

by Margot Adler
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006

Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo- Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed...
by Carl Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004

The New York Times has called Carl Dennis’s poetry “wise, original, and deeply moving.” A poet with a growing audience of admirers, Dennis writes in a clear, classically simple language that is both personal and universal. Making use of a rich variety of genres—advice, meditation, elegy, and...
by Maira Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

**Maira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us  ** Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss  Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can. From the dogs lovingly...
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