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Inventing the It Girl

Hilary A Hallett

• Hardcover | Engels
• A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography o... Lees meer

The Arena

Rafi Kohan

• Hardcover | Engels
• The American sports stadium, for all its raucous glory, is an overlooked centerpiece--a veritable temple--of our national culture. A hallowed ground f... Lees meer

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

• Paperback | Engels
• Celebrated as a "literary gateway drug" to Proust's masterpiece (NPR), the New York Times-best-selling graphic adaptation continues with this highly a... Lees meer

The Last Summer of the Camperdowns

Elizabeth Kelly

• Paperback | Engels
• The Last Summer of the Camperdowns , from the best-selling author of Apologize, Apologize! , introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old d... Lees meer

On Aristotle

Alan Ryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Liveright Classics
• In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy , Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape ... Lees meer

The Long Road to Antietam

Richard Slotkin

• Paperback | Engels
• In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy--one that abandoned hope for a com... Lees meer

The Cause

Joseph J Ellis

• Hardcover | Engels
• In one of the most "exciting and engaging" (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. ... Lees meer

When America First Met China

Eric Jay Dolin

• Paperback | Engels
• Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship... Lees meer

When Affirmative Action Was White

Ira Katznelson

• Paperback | Engels
• With this explosive analysis, Ira Katznelson fundamentally recast our understanding of twentieth-century American history, demonstrating that the key ... Lees meer

Here Comes the Sun

Nicole Dennis-Benn

• Hardcover | Engels
• Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the w... Lees meer

The Gift to Be Simple

Robert Peters

• Paperback | Engels
• Through lyric and narrative sequences of great variety, Robert Peters becomes Ann Lee, the Mother Founder of the Shakers. He imaginatively relives her... Lees meer

The Concept of Anxiety

Søren Kierkegaard

• Hardcover | Engels
• Although Soren Kierkegaard's death in the fall of 1855 foreshadowed a lasting split between conservative Christians and young contemporaries who saw h... Lees meer

The Drought

J G Ballard

• Paperback | Engels
• Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by... Lees meer

Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

• Paperback | Engels
• Since 2010, The Stone -- an enormously popular column in the New York Times -- has interpreted and reinterpreted age-old inquires that speak to our co... Lees meer

Floating in the Deep End

Patti Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• " For the decade of my father's illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning ," writes... Lees meer

Black Dahlia, Red Rose

Piu Eatwell

• Paperback | Engels
• The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteri... Lees meer

The Saddest Words

Michael Gorra

• Hardcover | Engels
• William Faulkner, one of America's most iconic writers, is an author who defies easy interpretation. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such ... Lees meer

In a Narrow Grave

Larry McMurtry

• Paperback | Engels
• Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nat... Lees meer

And I Do Not Forgive You

Amber Sparks

• Paperback | Engels
• Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks has built a cultlike following with And I Do Not Forgive You . Fueled by ... Lees meer

Pogrom

Steven J Zipperstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it ... Lees meer

Severed

Frances Larson

• Paperback | Engels
• The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. ... Lees meer

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

• Hardcover | Engels
• Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and Africa... Lees meer

The Selected Papers of Wolfgang Kohler

Wolfgang Kohler

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the pioneers of Gestalt psychology, Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967) broke new ground in numerous areas of human thought. This collection of writing... Lees meer

The Dybbuk

S Ansky

• Paperback | Engels
• The Dybbuk , regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated audiences throughout the world. Based on Jewish fo... Lees meer