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by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown | Conversation Starters
In Braving the Wilderness, three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brene Brown redefines the meaning of belonging in these critical times when peoples and nations are polarized by politics and ideologies. We now live in societies...
Obscene in the Extreme
The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. But in Kern County, California-the Joads' newfound home-the book was burned publicly...
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
I’m Fine…And Other Lies by Whitney Cummings | Conversation Starters
In “I’m Fine…And Other Lies”, readers are introduced to the author’s personal experience with mental health issues and embarrassing situations. The novel draws on the author’s trademark staples of humor and...
Mind of an Outlaw
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer | Conversation Starters
College freshman Greer Kadetsky is sexually assaulted when she attends a party inside campus. Along with other women victims, she attempts to have her assailant punished by school authorities but the school takes the offense...
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the...
The Bestseller Code
Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so."—Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author
Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of...
A Dangerous Profession
A Book About the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other...
The Real Rule of Four
The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason’s The Rule of Four is already a bookselling phenomenon. The Ivy League super-achievers drew upon an authentic 1499 Renaissance text to create their thriller about two Princeton undergraduates who try to unravel the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (pronounced...
Modernist Lives
Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding modernist literary work and culture. Modernist Lives draws on archival material from the Hogarth Press...
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: by Rachel Joyce | Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters...
Golems, Vampires and Wanderers:
Essays in Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Welcome to a world of insanity, wicked monks, sublime landscapes, romantic heroines, golems, vampires, and wanderers.... Essays on the relationship between fantasy fiction and the Gothic, including the Gothic clazzics Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, Ann...
by S.S. Prawer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature—poems, novels, plays—infused and shaped Marx’s writings, from his unpublished correspondence,...
The Good Story
Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with...