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The Dressmaker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving
After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian...
The Forgotten Village
Life in a Mexican Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration,...
by Willie Perdomo
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**A suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch
A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry**
Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo’s third collection...
Can I Go Now?
The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
**“To call Sue Mengers a ‘character’ is an understatement, unless the word is written in all-caps, followed by an exclamation point and modified by an expletive. And based on Brian Kellow’s assessment in his thoroughly researched Can I Go Now? even that description may be playing down her...
Your Band Sucks
What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
**• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 *•*A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father’s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 •
A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent...
We Are Still Married
Stories and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
“Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World
“Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal...
In the Know
The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
There are still a few things money can’t buy. Love is one, cool is another. But while love can be left to fate, cool doesn’t need to be. Though it may seem like something you’re born with, cool is actually a code, and you’re holding the key to the code in your hands. It’s all a matter of...
by Scott Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The third beautiful book from the creator of the original street style blog
In The Sartorialist: X, Scott Schuman pays homage to the unique style found on sidewalks and streets, as well as off the beaten path. From its start ten years ago as a New York street-style blog, The Sartorialist has become...
by Stewart O'Nan
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A “rich, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood, from the acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself
In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with...
Atop an Underwood
Early Stories and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two,...
Civilization
The West and the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western...
Plutocrats
The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize
There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent...
This Is Where You Belong
Finding Home Wherever You Are
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live
The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move...
Escape from Camp 14
One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
**With a New Foreword
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.**
North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi...