Hoffman: 730 books

No-one knows who was the model for Michelangelo's famous statue of David in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence – or even if there was one. In David: the Unofficial Autobiography, Mary Hoffman imagines the life of the man who inspired Michelangelo and whose likeness has stood in stone...

This book brings together a collection of scholars whose work is leading the field of political entertainment studies, and yet it crosses methodological divides to do so, with quantitative and critical/cultural perspectives both represented. Indeed, each author worked as a part of a pair, addressing...

Selected as one of Oprah.com’s 20 Tantalizing Beach Reads Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare responsiveness to the complexities of her art, and its intensities of feeling. At the...

Volume three, issue two of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal. Cover by Cristina Troufa. Fiction by Miles Klee, Dan Mancilla, Jen Michalski, Timmy Reed, Matt Sailor, and Ben Segal. Poetry by Aaron Apps, J. Bradley, Sarah Elizabeth Colona, Rob Cook, Jeremy Griffin, Cynthia Marie...

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities...

A new and smile-producing look at the parables of Jesus will banish the traditional stereotype of a gloomy Jesus. Jesus, the Master Teacher, used subtle humor in the parables to capture and hold the attention of his audience. He poked fun at hypocrisy with hyperbole, and used stories using everyday...

Ace lived his life going from one bottle to another. Until he was able to find the strength to quitting. Yet, quitting and staying quit is not always the same thing. Working in a liquor store provides daily temptation. Working for a jerk helps him keep his head on straight. But someone enters his life who believes Ace can do better.

Pow-Wows By John George Hoffman Written by a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the 1820s, this book is a rambling collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some rural areas...

This is a personal story of my 28 days spent in Myanmar in 2013. It is a story of troubled bus rides, dusty journeys, long boat tours, preschools on stilts, ancient pagodas, tea houses, fresh noodles, and the people I met along the way. It is a story of my travels with my husband of 11 years. It is...

Born With Blood On the Walls is a story of survival. It follows the piglet's confinement, eventual escape from the slaughterhouse, as well as the trials that befall him throughout. Yet even when he has escaped the clutches of the butcher, he doesn’t know if humans in the outside world will treat him with any sort of compassion.

From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a haunting novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that New York magazine calls “a gauzy portrait of youthful longing, sticky romance, and regret.” Running follows the lives...

“Bernard and his newfound friends—revolutionary rats, wise-cracking cats, and coffee-chugging squirrels, to name a few—will delight and inspire readers of all ages!” —Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Medal-winning author of Hello, Universe The drowsy Dormouse from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s...

Sol and Dorothy have raised a family. He built a business. His heart was never completely there, but the importance of family and success drove him. Reaching the twilight years, Sol has to face his past in a way he never expected.

"Growing up as a kid in the 70's was great and the 80's were even better. We didn't have cell phones, Ipod's, Ipad's, or laptop computers, but we did have pay phones on the corner, the Atari 2600, Nintendo with Super Mario and the best music ever". The year is 1986 in small town Arkansas...