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Conversations

Johnnetta B Cole

• Paperback | Engels
• Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take an active role, as she is doing, to help make th... Lees meer

Cairo Modern

Naguib Mahfouz

• Paperback | Engels
• In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed... Lees meer

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

James Weldon Johnson

• Paperback | Engels
• First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and dou... Lees meer

Scissors

St Phane Michaka

• Paperback | Engels
• Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, Scissors is a compassionate and convincing portrayal of the creative life. An alcoho... Lees meer

The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing

• Paperback | Engels
• An Anchor Paperback Original An intelligent, sophisticated cross-section of Irish short fiction, ideal for casual readers and classrooms alike, that s... Lees meer

The Last Station

Jay Parini

• Paperback | Engels
• SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A New York Times Notable Book As Leo Tolstoy's life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunni... Lees meer

True North

Jill Ker Conway

• Paperback | Engels
• Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial-... Lees meer

Mount Chicago

Adam Levin

• Paperback | Engels
• From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions , a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. "... Lees meer

Make No Law

Anthony Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize-win... Lees meer

London Under

Peter Ackroyd

• Paperback | Engels
• In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkn... Lees meer

Charlemagne

Derek Wilson

• Paperback | Engels
• An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western hi... Lees meer

John Calvin

John Calvin

• Paperback | Engels
• This selection of the writings of John Calvin (1509--1564) is the first for general readers to appear in many years. It showcases his powerful legacy,... Lees meer

The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

Michael Patrick Hearn

• Paperback | Engels | Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
• From Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme's The Reluctant Dragon and ... Lees meer

Undiscovered Gyrl

Allison Burnett

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Contemporaries
• Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to... Lees meer

For Fidelity

Catherine M Wallace

• Paperback | Engels
• "[Wallace] makes an eloquent case for sexual fidelity" ( The New Yorker ) in this book that presents marriage as an art and a spiritual exercise. Draw... Lees meer

The Strong Horse

Lee Smith

• Paperback | Engels
• In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering adv... Lees meer

The Dark Side

Jane Mayer

• Paperback | Engels
• The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of ter... Lees meer

Strange Beauty

George Johnson

• Paperback | Engels
• With a New Afterword "Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard ... Lees meer

The Glitch

Elisabeth Cohen

• Paperback | Engels
• A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut-- The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED Talk-ing, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who... Lees meer

Joe Gould's Teeth

Jill Lepore

• Paperback | Engels
• From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the missing longest book ever w... Lees meer

Sea Change

Gina Chung

• Paperback | Engels | vintage books originals
• A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An enchanting novel about Ro, a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back t... Lees meer

The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry

Angel Flores

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in 1958, this collection introduced an indispensible corpus of western poetry to countless American college students, francophiles, an... Lees meer

The Vintage Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

• Paperback | Engels
• The author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles , offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrate... Lees meer

Angel Time

Anne Rice

• Paperback | Engels | Songs of the Seraphim
• NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The first book in the divinely thrilling Songs of the Seraphim series about an assassin with the choice to turn from darkness to... Lees meer