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Licks of Love
Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting...
The Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
“This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
by Andrea Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
“A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism.” –The New York Times Book Review
At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for...
Young Radicals
In the War for American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them
“Inspiring and entertaining.”—David Brooks, The New York Times
“It’s not difficult to...
The Iran Wars
Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From the Wall Street Journal reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s...
Playing with Fire
Pakistan at War with Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing...
The Territory of Men
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Born into the turmoil of mid-sixties San Francisco, the daughter of a flower child and a surfer, Joelle Fraser grew up with no bedtime, no boundaries, and no father. But “dads” she had in abundance, as her mother worked her way through boyfriends and husbands, caught between the traditional rules...
Drinks Before Dinner
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent writers.
Drinks Before Dinner, called “witty and provocative” by the New York Times, is E.L. Doctorow’s only play. A tour-de-force of language and ideas concerning the individual’s role in and response to contemporary America, Drinks...
Obliviously On He Sails
The Bush Administration in Rhyme
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing...
The Rise of Athens
The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates...
God
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God.
In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth...
The Prism and the Pendulum
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Is science beautiful? Yes, argues acclaimed philosopher and historian of science Robert P. Crease in this engaging exploration of history’s most beautiful experiments. The result is an engrossing journey through nearly 2,500 years of scientific innovation. Along the way, we encounter glimpses into...
The Cave and the Light
Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light...
The Girl in the Blue Beret
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him...