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by Bich Minh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than...
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
A delicious new memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
A family history peppered with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a humorous and flavorful tale spanning three generations as Kathleen Flinn returns to the mix of food...
by Laurence G. Boldt
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Technological advances and the global marketplace are changing the way we live and work. Doing the work you love is the critical factor to personal fulfillment and economic success. No one understands this more than Laurence G. Boldt, whose Zen and the Art of Making a Living helped many carve out...
by Garrison Keillor
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times.
Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant...
When the Astors Owned New York
Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.
Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New...
Charles Dickens
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens;...
Strangers Drowning
Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their...
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it
In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace...
The Two-State Delusion
Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
**Padraig O'Malley is the subject of the new acclaimed documentary The Peacemaker
“A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful, and enormously useful.”
—Kirkus, starred review**
Disputes over settlements, the right of...
by John Phillip Santos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
**Finalist for the National Book Award!**In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people....
by Carrie Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey
Set in southern New Mexico, where her family's multicultural history is deeply rooted, the poems in Carrie Fountain's first collection explore issues of progress, history, violence, sexuality, and the self. Burn Lake weaves...
Shock Value
How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven ted Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre.
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin...
The Future Won't Be Long
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
**“A brilliant re-creation of a disappeared New York of cheap rents, club kids and Bret Easton Ellis. . . . You can’t stop time’s passage, this absorbing novel reminds us. You can only find someone to love to help you survive it.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
“Have you been...
The Meaning of Sunglasses
And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
With subscriptions nearing 1.2 million, Vogue magazine proves that if there's anything a fashionista enjoys as much as shopping, it's reading about fashion. With both an insider's relish and a layman's exasperation, The Meaning of Sunglasses offers an encyclopedia of style that celebrates the joys,...