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by Joanne Drayton
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography. While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings...
Lit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
The...
Making Toast
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
“A painfully beautiful memoir….Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”
—E. L. Doctorow
A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt...
Dispatches from the Edge
A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
From one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
Dispatches from the Edge of the World is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what...
The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book • Now a Major Motion Picture
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.
The making of...
Lincoln
The Biography of a Writer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln’s ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers and listeners.” — James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books
“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our...
Vindication
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless strongly influenced political philosophy in Europe...
I Love Yous Are for White People
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father's head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed...
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest...
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Deluxe Modern Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Due to copyright restrictions, this eBook may not contain all of the images available in the print edition.
"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style,...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today**)**
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s...
Bad Blood
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain—and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily—in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread...
Sleeping with Cats
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events...
A Broom of One's Own
Essays on Housecleaning and the Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"—was more than a shock. It was an inspiration.
In A Broom of One's Own, Nancy Peacock, whose first novel...