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Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price.
In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture...
Under the Sun
The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."
-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)
The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment...
Brother One Cell
An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Cullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What he got was a three-and-a- half-year drug-crime...
Family Romance
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction
It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he...
Chaucer's Tale
1386 and the Road to Canterbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury Tales
In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that...
by Claire Tomalin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.
The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer...
Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon,...
Steinbeck
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1989
"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book Review
For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked...
by Gervase Phinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
Head Over Heels in the Dales is the third volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales Series
'Could you tell me how to spell "sex" please?'
Gervase Phinn thinks he's heard just about everything in his two years as a school inspector, but a surprising enquiry from an angelic...
by Joe Queenan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books
Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an...
by John Stuart Mill, John Robson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works...
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2
The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).
The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War...
Runaway Girl
Escaping Life on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“Riveting . . . A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief.” (Kirkus Reviews)
A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens
A Joan F. Kaywell Award Finalist from the Florida Council of Teachers of English
Carissa...