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by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1975
The fifth volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author’s experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
The second volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times).
Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients—as well as...
Incest
From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1993
The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others—including her own father.
Anaïs Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life....
Feeding on Dreams
Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
“A beautifully crafted, searing memoir” about fleeing Chile after the Pinochet coup, and the exile’s yearning for home (Kirkus Reviews).
“A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced view of United States–Latin American politics and relations...
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
A Thousand Days
John F. Kennedy in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2002
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected...
An American Requiem
God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).
James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest,...
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
A “brilliant” examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian (Newsweek).
Over the course of two centuries, the power of the president of the United States has grown exponentially. From George Washington to...
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
An account of how America’s greatest crisis began, by “the Civil War’s master historical detective” (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).
This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?
The...
One Man Great Enough
Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
From the author of The Class of 1846: “A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln’s pre-presidential life.” —The Washington Post Book World
How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become the...
Name-Dropping
From FDR On
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
“[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable” (Newsday).
A New York Times Notable Book
“Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith,” says...
by Richard Selzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1996
A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune).
“Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” raved The New York Times of this extraordinary collection....
Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal).
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind...
Strange Angel
The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist).
The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform...