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Jane's Fame
How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation...
by Caroline Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War...
Mockingbird
A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman
*To Kill a Mockingbird—*the twentieth century's most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still...
And So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking...
Left Bank
Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris
In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately...
Charmed Circle
Gertrude Stein and Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Avant-garde Paris comes to life in this "meticulous and loving reconstruction of the period" (The New York Times Book Review)
On almost every Saturday of the first half of the twentieth century, Gertrude Stein would open her door to the likes of Picasso and Matisse, Hemingway and...
The World Broke in Two
Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World...
By the Book
Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By...
Rawhide Down
The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011
A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into...
Coretta
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
The Washington Post**’s Books to Read in 2017**
USA Today**, “New and Noteworthy”**
Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017
A Parade Magazine Pick
"This book is distinctly Coretta's story . ....
A Perfect Union
Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An extraordinary American comes to life in this vivid, groundbreaking portrait of the early days of the republic—and the birth of modern politics
When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's...
Churchill's Empire
The World That Made Him and the World He Made
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded.
A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring...
The Most Wanted Man in China
My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The long-awaited memoir by Fang Lizhi, the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspire the Tiananmen Square protests
Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later...
The Right Answer
How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The first declared candidate for president in 2020 delivers a passionate call for bipartisan action, entrepreneurial innovation, and a renewed commitment to the American idea
The son of a union electrician and grandson of an immigrant, John K. Delaney grew up believing that anything was possible...