A superb new, very readable verse translation of the classic text that has been called ?a choice contender for both college and general reading audiences” by the premier Dante scholar, Richard Lansing
Eight years apart in age, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the leader?charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet al
From an award-winning author, a moving story of acceptance, adaptation, and unconditional love in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.You just can’t plan for this kind of thing.Diane Tate certainly hasn’t
A smart, fun, brief biography situating Barney Rosset and Grove Press in the colorful literary, cultural, and political history of the sixties, with juicy anecdotes about the feisty, zany, First Amend
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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
This is a journalist's intimate snapshot of the millennial generation and the New China, told through the stories of six individuals, from childhood to the present, capturing their beliefs and aspirat
In this sequel to The Rataban Betrayal, Colonel Afridi and his sidekick, agent Annapurna Anna” Tagore, pursue an elusive warlord known as Guldaar,” who, with the support of the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI,
For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales.Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as origi
A Hilarious Comedy on the High SeasCommodore Robert S. Dickey, the pompous second-in-command at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, desperately wants the top job, presently occupied by the skir
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
The finest filmmaker of my lifetime . . . Bergman was a born spinner of tales.” Woody AllenIn this new paperback edition, Ingmar Bergman presents an intimate view of his own unique body of work in fil
A clear-eyed investigation into what is probably the biggest, longest cover-up in American history.As a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Richard Nixon led the investigations that
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.
The Organ Broker is the story of Jack Traynerknown as New York Jackan underground black market organ dealer. After years of selling life,” Jack’s conscience begins to overcome his resolve for this gha
An eye-opening look by a renowned expert at one of the most important institutions in American democracy.To many Americans, the United States Supreme Court continues to loom large as an unimpeachable
Like The Spy Who Came in from the Cold for the Great Game playing out South Asia today, the tautly written, richly textured, gripping tale of a double agent in Pakistan’s notorious ISI intelligence se
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villainsilluminating and upsetting in equal measure.”The first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome i
Now in paperback, a new translation of the Sufi mystic’s verse, hailed as authentic” and exquisite.”Championed by icons of American pop culture such as Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi ha
?Crucial in understanding the evolution of the American art scene.”?Library JournalUntil Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio?which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later?on
Including 150 photographs, an incisive biography of a classic film star tells not only about Cary Grant's seventy-two movies, but also reveals his behind-the-scenes life, especially focusing on his ma
An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos o
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
An inside look at the rise of the Special Forces by the man President JFK tasked with its creation, Navy Captain William H. Hamilton Jr., and the veteran military history writer and bestselling author
Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, i
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating exploration of his coming of age as an artist and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitiv
The award-winning More, by one of Turkey’s leading underground writers, is the world’s first novel about the refugee crisis.The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred mil
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Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio, on the poorest road in the poorest county in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with
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.
The exclusive in-house perfumer for Hermès guides readers through an explanation of how the sense of smell works and reveals his methods and recipes for making some of the world's best-selling perfume
"A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the wo
In Driving the Future, Margo T. Oge portrays a future where clean, intelligent vehicles with lighter frames and alternative power trains will produce zero emissions and run at 100+ mpg. With elect
It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was
In Haunted Traveller, his most personal and ambitious work, Barry Yourgrau takes the reader on a postmodern literary journey like no other. Here are forty-four fantastic episodes that together paint a
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"Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature. Better known in Europe than in his native America for most of this career, he achieved international success and c
When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child, Lucas, they are living the dream. They’re happily married, they’ve just bought a house, and the company they built together is starting to blo
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder'sLittle House books have t
