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by Yiyun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.
“A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead
“What a long way it...
Reading Chekhov
A Critical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St....
Northwest Corner
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
“Nuanced and moving . . . [a] story about the indestructible bonds of family.”—The New York Times
From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the...
Sicily
An Island at the Crossroads of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.
“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone...
Hearts Grown Brutal
Sagas of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen...
A World on Fire
Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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In...
Into the Fire
A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military...
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour
Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already...
Wake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
London, 1920....
Castles of Steel
Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power...
The Eloquent President
A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
The fact that Abraham Lincoln is now universally recognized as America’s greatest political orator would have surprised many of the citizens who voted him into office. Ungainly in stature and awkward in manner, the newly elected Lincoln was considered a Western stump speaker and debater devoid of...
Perdita
The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.”
One...
A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing...