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An Angel at My Table
The Complete Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer
New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent...
White Fever
A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the first day) for company. But Jacek Hugo-Bader is no ordinary traveler. As a fiftieth birthday present to himself, he sets out to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok,...
I Just Hitched in from the Coast
The Ed McClanahan Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“It’s a little Hunter S. Thompson cut with the mellowing influence of a peaceful flower child that makes for one hell of a fun ride.” —The Paris Review
This rollicking collection—personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)—gathers the best...
by Sergei Dovlatov, James Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A dissolute writer fights redemption in “a black comedy of eyes-wide-open excess . . . and a fine rumination on being Russian, besides” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Praised by Kurt Vonnegut for his “truly deep and universal” fiction,...
The Zone
A Prison Camp Guard's Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From the exiled Russian author of The Suitcase. “Reading Dovlatov is a joyous, thrilling, usually hilarious experience” (The New Yorker).
Written in Sergei Dovlatov’s unique voice and unmatched style, The Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the...
Aaronsohn's Maps
The Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's...
Lost Son
Hermann Broch's Letters to His Son, 1925-1928
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
By any measure, Hermann Broch was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Author of The Sleepwalkers and The Spell, he stands, together with James Joyce and Marcel Proust, at the pinnacle of literary Modernism. Born in 1886, he saw the First World War destroy the culture and consciousness...
Searching for Mercy Street
My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press).
This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one...
by David Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Like all of his translations, Hinton's translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting...
1616
The World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of maritime globalism...
Handmaking America
A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
America has survived an economic near-disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post-consumerist society,...
Savage Grace
A Journey in Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equally at home among the sea gypsy” Bajo people who live off the coast of Thailand and forage their food from the ocean floor, drinking the psychedelic...
Field Notes from a Hidden City
An Urban Nature Diary
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements-geographic, atmospheric and environmental-which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the...
Legacy of Secrecy
The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
From the authors of Ultimate Sacrifice—”Explosive new material, based mainly on government documents from the National Archives” (Vanity Fair).
John F. Kennedy’s assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson,...