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The Bone Clocks
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas• Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize •Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine• A New York Times Notable Book • An American Library Association Notable Book • Winner...
A Daughter's Tale
The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life—and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
Now approaching her ninetieth birthday, Mary Soames...
Seeking Rapture
Scenes from a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman’s life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to...
by Ian Buruma
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’s behind it.”
–John Schlesinger
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema’s most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations with John Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger’s...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die. First published in the early days of the...
Something in the Air
Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youth
When television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star–and radio, period. But radio...
Prime Time (with Bonus Content)
Love, health, sex, fitness, friendship, spirit; Making the most of all of your life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
BONUS: This eBook includes the full text of the book plus 50 photographs not found in the print version.
In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second...
A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture?...
Game Face
What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer to the question at the heart of Game Face:...
by Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and...
Identical Strangers
A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
As seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers • “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.”—Reader’s Digest (Editors’ Choice)
WINNER OF A BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD
Elyse...
The Rivalry
Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA’S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERA
In the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup...
Price of Fame
The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die,” Clare Boothe Luce told her biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris. Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce’s progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career as a diplomat,...
by Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews
From Salman...