Carol: 4546 books
A Widow's Story
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics...
Parents Who Kill
Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the author of Children Who Kill and Women Who Kill, an exploration of why parents do the unthinkable
Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, "Baby P"—every time a child dies violently, the public reels at the suggestion that a parent may have been involved. Carol Anne...
Romantic Catholics
France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include,...
by Carol McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A beautifully woven tale of an exiled princess's quest for happiness. Compelling and convincing, the medieval world is brought vividly to life. Charlotte Betts What happened to the family of King Harold after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings? Carol McGrath has delved into one of history's...
by Carol McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The Swan Daughter is a true 11th C tale of elopement and a love triangle by best-selling author of The Handfasted Wife, Carol McGrath. A marriage made in Heaven or Hell. 1075 and Dowager Queen Edith has died. Gunnhild longs to leave Wilton Abbey but is her suitor Breton knight Count Alain of Richmond...
Gemini
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“Gemini is an unforgettable novel—a morality tale, a mystery, and a love story that will leave readers breathless” (Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette).
As should be the case with any memorable love story, the first time Raney Remington saw...
The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition
Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the “rights” and “wrongs” of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared off, it was often the reader who lost....
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and...
The Cat's Tale of Rescue
As Told By The Cat
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This is the tale of initial rescue then abandonment of a cat as told by the cat. The cat struggles to survive and wants to know what a home is and have a name. The underlying story alludes to the consequences to cats and people when cats are not spayed or neutered but the fun is the spunky telling...
by Carol Fenner
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2002
Fifth grader Yolonda determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius in this Newberry Honor Book from Carol Fenner.
Yolanda is smart, tough, and big for her age. Back in Chicago where they used to live, everyone knew better than to mess with her...
High Lonesome
New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of...
by Carol Mithers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Caring for aging parents may be today’s defining midlife experience—and Carol Mithers went through it in multiples. Four aging relatives needed her at once, while she was working and raising her own family, sweeping her into a place she calls elderworld. The experience changed her forever. This...
by Carol Ardman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Carol Ardman traveled to Tangier in 1970 to tend her broken heart and—she hoped—find Jane Bowles, whose writing had literally saved her. Instead she found Paul Bowles at a time when he was as lonely and searching as she was. The two began an unconventional love affair that roiled Tangier’s incestuous...
Unless
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness."
The...