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The First Heroes
The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Vict ory
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off...
The Purity of Desire
100 Poems of Rumi
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The first full-length volume of Rumi’s cherished verse, from bestselling poet and translator Daniel Ladinsky
Renowned for his poignant renderings of mystical texts, here Daniel Ladinsky captures the beauty, intimacy, and musicality of one of Islam’s most beloved poets and spiritual thinkers....
Jack's Book
An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way
First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of...
by William Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
William Hazlitt's tough, combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination, boxing matches to the monarchy, established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have inspired journalists and political satirists ever since.
by Gordon S. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life...
by Wallace Stegner
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2002
Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces...
by Lawrence Raab
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Lawrence Raab's richest work to date-his saddest, funniest, most personal, and most searching book
Of Lawrence Raab 's 1972 debut, Mark Strand wrote:
"This is a first book with more authority and wisdom in it than most poets are able to manage in their entire careers. I am amazed...
Adam's Navel
A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible parts of the body. In this fascinating brew of science...
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with...
Alone Time
Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times
A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo**
In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of...
by Tryfon Tolides
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that...
by Garrison Keillor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And...
The Forsaken
An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends
In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers,...
The Hue and Cry at Our House
A Year Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.
**Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's...