Abrams: 1969 books
A.D. 381
Heretics, Pagans, and the Christian State
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the...
Mistresses
A History of the Other Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Why do women become mistresses, and is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? In Mistresses, Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of the most infamous and fascinating women in history and literature....
Jiggle Shots
75 Recipes to Get the Party Started
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Nothing gets the party started quite like a tray full of jiggle shots. They’re bright, colorful, and slightly deviant. A longtime Friday night staple for the college crowd, gelatin shots have established themselves as legitimate cocktails and have become a trendy treat based on one of the most popular...
Coco Chanel
Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent...
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World
A Story of Love, Work, Marriage, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, has been much overlooked. In this compelling new biography, Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable...
by Andrew Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
One beautiful autumn day, Art sets out with his mother and grandfather for a fishing trip. Fishing days are Art’s favorite. He loves learning the ropes from Grandpa—the different kinds of flies and tackle and the trout that frequent their favorite river. Art especially appreciates Grandpa’s...
The Greek War of Independence
The Struggle for Freedom and the Birth of Modern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work—the first comprehensive study in thirty years—of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any people has ever waged. This was the revolution of the Romantic Age, inspiring painters, poets, and patriots the world over, fired...
Dylan Thomas
A New Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The renowned literary biographer offers a “thoroughly well-written” chronicle of the legendary Welsh poet’s life that is “rich in anecdote” (The New Yorker).
Dylan Thomas is as legendary for his raucous life as for his literary genius. The author of the immortal poems Death Shall...
Into the Woods
A Five-Act Journey Into Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological journey to the heart...
by Walt Whitman, Karen Karbiener
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled “Live Oak, With Moss.” The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman’s most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex...
by Roderick Kiracofe
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 19502000 is a stunning collection of approximately 150 eccentric and extraordinary quilts made predominantly by anonymous quilters in the US during the second half of the 20th century. Collected by renowned quilt authority and collector...
The White Rock
An Exploration of the Inca Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson’s intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland, is a thrilling mix of information and adventure. The author, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and explorer, expertly weaves accounts of his own...
Did She Kill Him?
A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James...
by Mikhail Lermontov
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable...