Other: 359 books
The Impossible Exile
Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also...
by Gregor Hens
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker's meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction
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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting...
Easternization
Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
****NAMED NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017""**
From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East.**
Easternization...
by That Other Tour
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Anne Rice’s Unauthorized French Quarter Tour is a historical fiction tour which blends old New Orleans with present-day New Orleans. This tour only covers the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches novels.Anne Rice’s notoriety as a writer began when Interview with the Vampire, the first...
The Perfect American
A Novel of Walt Disney
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition...
The Pen and the Brush
How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A scintillating glimpse into the lives of acclaimed writers and artists and their inspiring, often surprising convergences, from the author of Monsieur Proust's Library
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With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Anka Muhlstein’s work, The Pen and the Brush revisits the delights...
Song for My Fathers
A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a
consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging
black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local
obscurity until Preservation Hall launched...
A Guest in my Own Country
A Hungarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed...
Never Anyone But You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.
In the years preceding World War I, two young women...
The Road to Rescue
The Untold Story of Schindler's List
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Don’t thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the face constantly.”—Oskar Schindler in a speech to his released Jewish workers in May 1945.
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List popularized the true story of a German...
My Brother Moochie
Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.
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At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero,...
Villa Triste
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano is one of the most seductive and accessible in his oeuvre: the story of a man’s memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love, and searching for meaning in an uncertain world
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The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless...
The Origin of Species
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction
Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are flaring over the recent codification...
Balzac's Omelette
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread...