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Listening for Madeleine
A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Writer. Matriarch. Mentor. Friend. Icon.
Madeleine L'Engle is perhaps best recognized as the author of A Wrinkle in Time, the enduring milestone work of fantasy fiction that won the 1963 John Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature and has enthralled millions of readers for the past...
The Long Recessional
The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched that of the British Empire from its zenith to its final decades. Kipling was in his early twenties when his first...
Living in Hope and History
Notes from Our Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid...
by Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable...
Once Upon a Country
A Palestinian Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice
A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through...
Native Country of the Heart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
"This memoir's beauty is in its fierce intimacy." --Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019
From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s...
Convictions
A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the nation's most dangerous criminals. John Kroger...
Ultimate Punishment
A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
America's leading writer about the law takes a close, incisive look at one of society's most vexing legal issues
Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected...
Carrying the Fire
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder...
Intern
A Doctor's Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours...
This Close to Happy
A Reckoning with Depression
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016
“Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what...
Adventures in the Orgasmatron
How the Sexual Revolution Came to America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age—about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become...
My Bright Abyss
Meditation of a Modern Believer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable...