Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group: 7208 books
by Editors and Authors at Knopf Doubleday
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The eBook Insider is the ultimate readers’ resource for choosing great books. The perfect first stop to make along the way as you fill your e-reader with the books that you’ll want to have in your library and recommend to friends. It’s the place to find out what some of your favorite authors...
The Reading Group Insider
Book Club "Buzz Books," Resources, and Ideas for Great Reading and Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Reading Group Insider is a valuable resource for everything you need to know about reading groups.
If you are looking for ideas to enhance your current group's experiences, interested in joining a reading group, or starting one of your own, the suggestions within The Reading Group Insider...
Poems After Midnight
A Knopf Poem-a-Day Selection
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Most poets are or have been at one time or another members of what Mark Strand here calls “The Midnight Club”: they are insomniacs, or feel most productive in the middle of the night, or, if nothing else, are people whose work requires an openness to the dreams, visions, and scraps of inspired...
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography).The Alberses told him their...
by Sidney L. Landau
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
A reference book that belongs on every desk--one of the handiest, best-organized, and most reliable thesauruses available, newly updated to reflect the American language of today.
by William H. Gass
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from...
Decca
The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless...
Running to the Edge
A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**"Gripping . . . the narrative is smooth and immediate, almost effortless in its detail, if occasionally breathless, like a good fast run . . ." --The New York Times Book Review
Visionary American running coach Bob Larsen assembled a mismatched team of elite California runners ....
A Good Forest for Dying
The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost immediately turned farcically tragic. A. E. Ammons,...
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports...
The K Street Gang
The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
“You’ve got to understand, we are ideologues,” Tom DeLay once told a journalist. “We have an agenda. We have a philosophy. I want to repeal the Clean Air Act. No one came to me and said, ‘Please repeal the Clean Air Act.’ We say to the lobbyists, ‘Help us.’ We know what we want to...
The Mourning Sexton
A Novel of Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
In this deft, multilayered thriller, a disgraced lawyer trying to revive his tattered career stumbles across a hidden case of cold-blooded murder and discovers that he must pursue justice even though doing so might just cost him what little he has left—possibly even his life.
Attorney David...
by James D. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way...
Nothing Is Lost
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and well-known artists, designers, and actors of our time.
For...