Wilson: 5374 books
Victoria
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
“[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.” —The Guardian (London)
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen...
by A. N. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
**"In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading."—**The New York Times Book Review
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Author of Dante in Love
A sweeping panorama of the Elizabethan age, a time of remarkable, strange personages and great political...
Barnum
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, a vivid account of the forefather of American entertainment.
P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the man who made worldwide sensations of Jumbo the Elephant,...
by Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Richard Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Here is a selection of 18 jaunts through time, many of them rare tales from the pulps that we know you haven’t read before. Even if you're jaded with time-travel (Dinosaurs? Again?) you'll find something new in these pages. Included are:
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, by Raymond F. Jones
SIDETRACK...
The Triumph of Improvisation
Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation,...
by Jason Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”
These words, inseparably...
Armadillo World Headquarters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I’d thought not so much lost as forgotten....
The Cabin
A Search for Personal Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes,...
Love Game
A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with...
Honor's Voice
The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln's transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that was more than once seriously derailed....
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
Why We Can't Look Away
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Why can't we look away?
Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass...
Literary Seductions
Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...
Against Happiness
In Praise of Melancholy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling...
True Identity
A Spiritual Poetry Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Go to amazon.com and type in True Identity by India Wilson and you can preview my book! True Identity presents a collection of narrative poetry that shares a spiritual enlightenment and an awakening of heritage through personal stories, original verse, art, Bible verses, and images. The story begins...