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Bibliostyle
How We Live at Home with Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world.
Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Staying Stylish: Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude by Candace Cameron Bure | Conversation Starters
Staying Stylish: Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude, Candace Cameron Bure’s newest book goes over how the TV star has grown into her personal style over the years....
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 Martin P. Scanali
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
What Every Author Should Know On Getting A Book Published, Approaching Book Publishers, Questions to Ask Publishers Before Accepting an Offer, Other Alternatives to Print Publishing, Easiest books To Publish, Common Scams to Avoid, Mistakes You Want to Avoid and Resource That May Be Helpful.
Rereadings
Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (FSG, 1998) will find this...
Discontent and its Civilizations
Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the bestselling author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, coming in March 2017, “a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect." (NPR)
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made...
A Solemn Pleasure
To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Essays in this collection have been recently and prominently published: “Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave,” first published in Wilson Quarterly (2013), was a Byliner exclusive, recognized by The Atlantic as one of the year’s “Fantastic Pieces of Journalism,” and nominated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity Fair
What did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan...
The Great Detective
The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A rollicking look at popular culture’s most beloved sleuth: “For even the casual fan, the history of this deathless character is fascinating” (The Boston Globe).
Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and...
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye
One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?,...
John Gardner on Writing
On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from “one of the greatest creative writing teachers we’ve ever had” (Frederick Busch).
In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops,...
An Informal History of the Hugos
A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.
The Hugo Awards, named...
Patience and Fortitude
Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
**A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the story
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In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost...
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung | Conversation Starters
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss is Dr. Jason’s Fung’s view on what really causes obesity, how it came to be such a prominent issue in society today, and what can be done to prevent it. Major topics within...