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David Sedaris Diaries
A Visual Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experience the diaries David Sedaris has kept for nearly 40 years in the elaborate, three-dimensional,...
The Violinist's Thumb
And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.
In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the wonders of...
Do-Over!
In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could...
by Rick Moody
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
**A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, National Post
BEST BOOKS FOR GIFTING 2015: Vanity Fair
"This is Moody's best novel in many years...a book of irony and wit and heartbreak." --Dwight Garner, New York Times
From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes...
by Ian MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**A New York Times Editors' Pick
"Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."--Garth Greenwell**
Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo--a...
Born with Teeth
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences...
The Book of Lost and Found
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From London to Corsica to Paris--as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl.
Kate Darling's enigmatic mother--a once-famous ballerina--has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait...
by John Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter.
John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields...
Back to Blood
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with our hero, officer Nestor Camacho, on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running headlong into the only city in the world where people from a...
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Discover a dangerous world of manipulation, obsession, and murder in James Patterson's scary, sexy standalone thriller.
Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful...
The Rival Queens
Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.
Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two...
by Ian Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
Rebus investigates a cold case that just turned red hot.
As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up his favorite vices. There's just one habit he can't shake: he can't let go of an unsolved case. It's the only pastime he has left...
Writing Tools
55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.
Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of...
The Beatles Lyrics
The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America.
For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began as...