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Honeymoon in Tehran
Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains a Honeymoon in Tehran discussion guide.
Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and...
Five-Finger Discount
A Crooked Family History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People)
With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes....
Pagan Holiday
On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying...
Time After Time
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
**A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond. “Readers who enjoyed The Time Traveler’s Wife will be enchanted.”—Publishers Weekly
“I utterly loved this clever, charming,...
by Thomas Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
BONUS: This edition contains a The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers discussion guide.
In award-winning author Thomas Mullen’s evocative and spirited novel, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson—bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an adoring public...
by Anne Rice
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand...
by Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds. . . .
As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the...
by William Styron
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, and he was nervous about whether his “strain and toil” would amount to anything. “When...
by Julia Pierpont
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A perfect holiday gift, this beautifully illustrated collection honoring one hundred exceptional “feminist saints” throughout history is sure to inspire women and men alike.
“A new set of role models and heroes—‘matron saints’—for the feminist future.”—The New York Times...
More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs...
Dreaming
Hard Luck and Good Times in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
“Without sensationalism, totally outside the chic-trash mode, Carolyn See writes from way down inside the pain, the depression, and the lies that encumber most American lives. She knows what ‘family values’ really are, and tells her story with a hard-earned sweetness that transforms the unbearable...
Handing One Another Along
Literature and Social Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this...
George, Being George
George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative ...
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York’s East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address, would ask, “Isn’t...
It's the Little Things . . .
An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called “The Final Word.” In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life—clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs—and looked back on his childhood in the country with fondness and an infectious...