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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is one of those books that doesn’t leave you, and probably never will.”
—Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs novels
The onrush of World War I irrevocably intertwines the lives of two young couples in Louisa Young’s...
Winning: The Answers
Confirming 75 of the Toughest Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Winning, their 2005 international bestseller, Jack and Suzy Welch created a rare document, both a philosophical treatise on fundamental business practices and a gritty how-to manual, all of it delivered with Jack's trademark candor and can-do optimism. It seemed as if "no other management...
Rocketeers
Visionaries and Daredevils of the New Sp
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit.” —David Gelles, FORBES
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space...
Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion
Living Well With Wine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Choosing a bottle of wine should be fun, not frightening. After all, one of the most important elements of enjoying wine is not so much the vintage or the vineyard but the occasion on which it is enjoyed.
In their new book, Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion, Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher,...
by James Ellroy, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by...
The Tim Dorsey
Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, and The Stingray Shuffle
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida — where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned! Get five Dorsey novels full of murder and mayhem all set in the wacky world of Florida in one e-book, including: Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, and The Stingray Shuffle....
Carnal Knowledge
Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on,...
America's Medicis
The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
From literary polymath Suzanne Loebl (the author of ten books, most recently the acclaimed America’s Art Museums) comes the captivating, first-of-its kind exploration into the philanthropic and cultural legacy of one of America’s wealthiest and most influential families: The Rockefellers. Fueled...
Fire to Fire
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our time.
School of the Arts
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. The world constantly renews itself, and the new brings both possibility and erasure. Given the limits of our own bodies, how are we to live within the...
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychadelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas...
Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States
His Own Words, Selected and Arranged by Daniel Ruddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“A splendid piece of work.”
— Edmund Morris
In a unique project, author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt’s most relevant and telling comments—from letters, books, speeches, and other sources—and organized them to form a fairly full, always colorful, and highly...
Freedom Just Around the Corner
A New American History: 1585-1828
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement...
by Joseph Telushkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
When, if ever, should lying be permitted?
If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?
Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?
if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command...