Paul Dry Books: 62 books
A Parkinson's Primer
An Indispensable Guide to Parkinson's Disease for Patients and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“John Vine says he wrote this book for people who have been newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Well, I was diagnosed 24 years ago, and I still learned something new on every page.”—Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair columnist and author of Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide
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Homeric Moments
Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Fifty years of reading Homer—both alone and with students—prepared Eva Brann to bring theOdyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. InHomeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high...
Farewell to Salonica
City at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Zift
A Noir Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"A compelling thriller."—Los Angeles Times
"Zift is like a flaming shot of rotgut smuggled in from the old country…Vladislav Todorov adroitly uses the American genre of noir to excoriate the political villains of his homeland's past…Ziftis gritty and brisk."—Matt...
A Russian Schoolboy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"The happiness of childhood is the Golden Age, and the recollection of it has power to move the old man's heart with pleasure and with pain. Happy the man who once possessed it and is able to recall the memory of it in later years!"
Thus Sergei Aksakov recalls the "magic world"...
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist
A Book for Writers, Teachers, Publishers, and Anyone Else Devoted to Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Lucid, thoughtful…writers and teachers will learn much from it…Belongs wherever Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style finds frequent use."—Booklist
"Writers will actually learn things here."—Los Angeles Times
"Perfect for teachers, critics...
by Katharine Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A brilliantly crafted novel, brimming with heart.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
“Rich...
by Jesse Edward Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Wise-cracking underachiever Lester Smith, class of '97, muddles through his senior year in this funny, moving debut novel. It's 1996, senior year of high school has just begun, and Lester is at a total loss. He should be studying and making plans for life after graduation. (His best friend, Freesia,...
by Paula Marantz Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
"Incredibly charming…Suzanne Davis Gets a Life has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom."—Philadelphia Inquirer
Paula Marantz Cohen "portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyant combination of humor, pathos, and gumption."—Booklist...
Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide
How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“Dr. Andiman was at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, so he knows as well as anyone the disrupting power of new viruses and their impact on human societies.”—Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
“To reproduce...
Hotel Kid
A Times Square Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful…This is a very fine book—about a person, and a city, growing up."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries."—Library Journal (starred review)
"The...
by W. Stanley Moss
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Afterword by Alan Ogden
"One of the finest memoirs of behind-the-lines work during the Second World War. Honest, powerful, and authentic."—Dr. Roderick Bailey, SOE author and historian
A War of Shadows is W. Stanley Moss’s sequel to his classic Ill Met by Moonlight....
by Eva Brann
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker staring downward and inward, seated apart from the other philosophers. According to Eva Brann, Heraclitus looks within:...
In Pursuit of the Good
Intellect and Action in Aristotle's Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
"Where does happiness lie?" "What is the best life?" Aristotle ponders these abiding questions in his Nicomachean Ethics—a work which has profoundly influenced Western thinking on ethical matters. A book of apparent obviousness, the Ethics possesses a depth and complexity that...