Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Reading Jesus
A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection....
by Da Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."
In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born...
Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected...
The Solace of Leaving Early
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career...
Perfect Reader
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis Dempsey, a beloved former college president and famous literary critic in the league of Harold Bloom.
At the news of her father’s death, Flora...
Zen
Merging of East and West
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In this companion volume to The Three Pillars of Zen, Kapleau establishes guidelines for Western practitioners of Zen Buddhism, offering appealing, simple answers to the questions Westerners most often ask. Among the topics discussed in this informative, user-friendly book: "Transcendental...
Dogs of God
Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort...
by Patricia Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by:
Meena Alexander
Robin Behn
Louise DeSalvo
Erika Duncan
Maria Flook
Patricia Foster
Bonnie Friedman
Donna Gordon
Lucy Grealy
Joy Harjo
Bell Hooks
Pam Houston
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Lori Hope Norris
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Mona Simpson
Debra Spark
Joan Wickersham
Joy Williams
Troublemaker
A Memoir From the Front Lines of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The political memoir as rousing adventure story—a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era.
April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota. It has been more than five weeks since protesting Sioux Indians seized their historic...
Across the Wire
Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his...
The Washingtons
George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love"
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led
The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very...
In Small Things Forgotten
An Archaeology of Early American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Talesto recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting...
by John Milton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collations of all known manuscripts, chronology and verbal variants recorded. Works in Latin, Greek and Italian are included with new literal translations.