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by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West III
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.
American Subversive
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Aidan Cole and his friends are a band of savvy—if cynical—New York journalists and bloggers, thriving at the intersection of media and celebrity. They meet at loft parties and dive bars, talking of scoops and page views, sexual adventures and new restaurants. And then, without warning, a bomb...
Reporting Always
Writings from The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).
A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine’s founding editor,...
Precious Objects
A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner...
Maphead
Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” (The Atlantic).
Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library...
Three Stories Involving Pants
Essays from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about clothes.
The Boston Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
New York Times bestseller!
An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent.
Anita Diamant’s “vivid,...
The Wolves of Winter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A post-apocalyptic debut novel in a tradition that includes The Hunger Games and Station Eleven, this vision of a possible future shows humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, the forging of vital bonds when everything is lost, and, most centrally, a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape...
Relentless
From Good to Great to Unstoppable
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of relentless competitors in sports, business, and every walk of life—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to achieve total...
Prisoners of Geography
Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
Maps have a mysterious hold...
New World Coming
The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
**"To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble our own era, at the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses....Much of what we consider contemporary actually began in the Twenties."
-- from the Introduction**
The images of the 1920s...
Watch Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Academy Award-winning actress Huston’s “tireless fascination with the world is thrilling…” (Elle), and Watch Me is an “elegant and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) account of her seventeen-year love affair with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, and her mastery of the craft of acting.
Picking...
A Story Lately Told
Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Anjelica Huston’s “gorgeously written” (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir is “an elegant, funny, and frequently haunting reminiscence of the first two decades of her life…A classic” (Vanity Fair).
In her first, dazzling memoir, Anjelica Huston shares the story of her deeply unconventional...
On Her Own Ground
The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer
On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale, definitive biography of Madam C. J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles.
The daughter of slaves, Madam...