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Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Ju

A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document.Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and il

A tale of love, loss, identity, and belonging, No Place to Call Home tells the story of a family who fled to the United Kingdom from their native Congo to escape the political violence under the dicta

Winner of every major literary award in Taiwan, an elegiac and deceptively quiet novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts--and music A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei's red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness? Long hailed in Taiwan as a "writer's writer," Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful, compact novel in The Piano Tuner. It's a book of sounds: both of music and of the heart, from Rachmaninoff to Schubert, from Glenn Gould to Sviatoslav Richter, from untapped potential to unrequited love. With a cadence and precision that bring to mind Thomas Mann'

Going extinct isn't for everyone. Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can't seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in t

This Eyewitness Account of the Impeachment Process against Richard Nixon Holds Lessons for Our Own Time.James Reston, Jr., took leave from teaching during the summer of 1973 to witness the Senate Wate

The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in

A sharply intelligent, explosively honest, and laugh-out-loud funny look at the state of masculinity and how to be a man, for fans of Jon Ronson and Matt Haig.If ever there was an urgent need for a fr

An Account of one Woman's Courage, Caring, and Generosity in the Face of the Inhumane Brigitte Bardot—a global icon of French cinema—has used her fame to give a voice to those who cann

From a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour.Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would wri

An artist's extraordinary challenge to himself reveals the genius of Michelangelo in the making.Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of "divine" genius, but the

Why is finding a friend to play with so hard? That’s what Someone wants to know! All the other kids in his class have playmates, but not Someone. Without a friend, all Someone can do is watch the fun

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity— by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery.The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today,

When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails her: the Dunbar ranch i

From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the Allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg’s novels, terrible things happen—suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings. But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel, adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that, to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming.In this poignant story of the trauma and redemption that families face in the midst of terror, Natalia Ginzburg writes with the elegance that has assured her rightful place among history’s acclaimed authors.

The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in

Named on Booklist's Top Ten Religion and Spirituality Books of 2016, Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America. It is also the luminous story of m

Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors b

A tongue-in-cheek guide on how to be a dictator based on the outrageous, scandalous, and excessive behavior of dictators past and present.

More than a decade after accidentally setting a deadly fire as a child, Elena Alvarez is living a shadow of a life, unwilling to act, expecting her choices to have unbearable consequences on those aro

When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on him. He has come home to investigate two deaths that happened decades

By the first woman to row across the North Atlantic and to row across two oceans, an account of seeking adventure and fulfillment on the high seas in a twenty-five-foot rowboat, of her Guinness Book o

A fascinating, fast-moving narrative history of the search for medicines since earliest times, from Neolithic hunter gatherers to the professional drug hunters of today.

Anna Broinowski is a provocative, award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Australia who, on a pretext, managed to get invited to North Korea to interview the film industry there and learn about t

The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European hi

In the thrilling follow-up to Genesis Code, Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian turns up a secret program to tap the legendary fountain of youth through genetic engineering.

Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China. With its one-child policy, it’s a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the seco

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years laterafter a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journ

"Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the public-and especially the news media and political

Here is a treat for devoted fans of John Irving. First published twenty years ago,Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author, beginning with three memoirs. The longest of th

French cuisine is revered all around the world, and now French Country Cooking offers the unique opportunity to enter a France that very few tourists ever get to experience. In this richly illustrated

When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty y

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vaca

When the catastrophic 2010 earthquake hit, Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the United States, assumed tremendous responsibility. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run

Young American artist Julian Klein's search for artistic freedom in 1930s Paris leads him to Berlin, where in the face of Nazi attempts to destroy the avant-garde, he must decide how far he will go to

Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the public?and especially the news media and political

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its histor

Junky-on-the-run Nile Nightengale sees a chance for redemption when he nurses a human victim of poachers back to health and joins forces with her to take down an illegal ring of animal-parts sellers.

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later?after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance jour

Li Xuelian, married to Qin Yuhe, is pregnant with their second child. Happy news? Not in China, with its one-child policy. It is a crime. What is she to do? Her only option is divorcing before the sec