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Belfast Diary
War as a Way of Life
Written by John Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1995
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0217-9 (0-8070-0217-8)
Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.
“For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view.” -New York Times Book Review
“Mr. Conroy’s account is... Read more >
War as a Way of Life
Written by John Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1995
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0217-9 (0-8070-0217-8)
Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.
“For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view.” -New York Times Book Review
“Mr. Conroy’s account is... Read more >
My Reading Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-53357-7 (0-385-53357-8)
Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a voracious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, just from a love of language. But reading for him is not simply a pleasure to be enjoyed in off-hours or a source of inspiration for... Read more >
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-53357-7 (0-385-53357-8)
Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a voracious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, just from a love of language. But reading for him is not simply a pleasure to be enjoyed in off-hours or a source of inspiration for... Read more >
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True North
A Memoir
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 15, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74461-0 (0-679-74461-4)
Conway continues the story that began in her acclaimed memoir The Road from Coorain. True North starts with her arrival in the United States from Australia in 1960 and carries us through her acceptance in 1975 of the presidency of Smith College. It is a memoir of intellectual discovery, as Conway... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 15, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74461-0 (0-679-74461-4)
Conway continues the story that began in her acclaimed memoir The Road from Coorain. True North starts with her arrival in the United States from Australia in 1960 and carries us through her acceptance in 1975 of the presidency of Smith College. It is a memoir of intellectual discovery, as Conway... Read more >
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When Memory Speaks
Exploring the Art of Autobiography
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76645-2 (0-679-76645-6)
Jill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers-- author of The Road from Coorain and True North --looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.
In a... Read more >
Exploring the Art of Autobiography
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76645-2 (0-679-76645-6)
Jill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers-- author of The Road from Coorain and True North --looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.
In a... Read more >
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A Woman's Education
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74462-7 (0-679-74462-2)
The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College—a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life.
Conway took... Read more >
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74462-7 (0-679-74462-2)
The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College—a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life.
Conway took... Read more >
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Family Sentence
The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
Written by Jeanine Cornillot
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0617-7 (0-8070-0617-3)
Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out... Read more >
The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
Written by Jeanine Cornillot
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0617-7 (0-8070-0617-3)
Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out... Read more >
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70903-6 (0-375-70903-7)
As book reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. Now Corrigan has added a volume of her own to the shelf of classics, by reading her life of reading with all the attention to complexity, wit, and intelligence that any good book–or life–deserves.
In this delightful memoir... Read more >
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70903-6 (0-375-70903-7)
As book reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. Now Corrigan has added a volume of her own to the shelf of classics, by reading her life of reading with all the attention to complexity, wit, and intelligence that any good book–or life–deserves.
In this delightful memoir... Read more >
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Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53637-0 (0-385-53637-2)
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53637-0 (0-385-53637-2)
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
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Grayson
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26454-1 (0-307-26454-8)
In Grayson Lynne Cox tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26454-1 (0-307-26454-8)
In Grayson Lynne Cox tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55-degree water as... Read more >
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Swimming to Antarctica
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41507-4 (0-375-41507-6)
“Like all those who have followed Lynne Cox’s adventures, I have looked forward to her own account for a long time. Swimming to Antarctica is her literally chilling chronicle of a series of remarkable and courageous journeys on the world's high wild seas.” —Caroline Alexander
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles... Read more >
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41507-4 (0-375-41507-6)
“Like all those who have followed Lynne Cox’s adventures, I have looked forward to her own account for a long time. Swimming to Antarctica is her literally chilling chronicle of a series of remarkable and courageous journeys on the world's high wild seas.” —Caroline Alexander
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles... Read more >
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Where Is the Mango Princess?
A Journey Back From Brain Injury
Written by Cathy Crimmins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70442-0 (0-375-70442-6)
Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family.
When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver... Read more >
A Journey Back From Brain Injury
Written by Cathy Crimmins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70442-0 (0-375-70442-6)
Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family.
When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver... Read more >
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Chinaberry Sidewalks
Written by Rodney Crowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74097-7 (0-307-74097-8)
In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst... Read more >
Written by Rodney Crowell
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74097-7 (0-307-74097-8)
In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst... Read more >
Chinaberry Sidewalks
Written by Rodney Crowell
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59420-4 (0-307-59420-3)
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when... Read more >
Written by Rodney Crowell
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59420-4 (0-307-59420-3)
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when... Read more >
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Altared
Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
Edited by Colleen Curran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27763-3 (0-307-27763-1)
Original essays by Top Women Writers
Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _ Elizabeth Crane
Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _ Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _... Read more >
Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
Edited by Colleen Curran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27763-3 (0-307-27763-1)
Original essays by Top Women Writers
Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _ Elizabeth Crane
Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _ Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _... Read more >
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Brother, I'm Dying
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3430-7 (1-4000-3430-2)
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest... Read more >
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3430-7 (1-4000-3430-2)
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest... Read more >
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94643-0 (0-307-94643-6)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94643-0 (0-307-94643-6)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
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I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88786-3 (0-307-88786-3)
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88786-3 (0-307-88786-3)
I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >
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The Complete Game
Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching
Written by Ron Darling
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39058-5 (0-307-39058-6)
World Series champion, former All-Star, and award-winning television analyst Ron Darling gives readers a inside look at one of the most demanding and strategic positions in all of sports: the pitcher. Drawing on vivid situations from his playing days for the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics, and from moments... Read more >
Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching
Written by Ron Darling
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39058-5 (0-307-39058-6)
World Series champion, former All-Star, and award-winning television analyst Ron Darling gives readers a inside look at one of the most demanding and strategic positions in all of sports: the pitcher. Drawing on vivid situations from his playing days for the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics, and from moments... Read more >
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Almost a Family
Written by John Darnton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27880-7 (0-307-27880-8)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.
John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for The New York Times—was killed in World War II. John's mother, a well-known reporter and editor, perpetuated a myth... Read more >
Written by John Darnton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27880-7 (0-307-27880-8)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.
John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for The New York Times—was killed in World War II. John's mother, a well-known reporter and editor, perpetuated a myth... Read more >
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Steve Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75680-1 (0-375-75680-9)
The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master... Read more >
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Steve Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75680-1 (0-375-75680-9)
The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master... Read more >
God Grew Tired of Us
A Memoir
Written by John Bul Dau and Michael S. Sweeney
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0212-4 (1-4262-0212-1)
This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting war and ruthless violence, yet illuminated by faith, generosity, and steadfast... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by John Bul Dau and Michael S. Sweeney
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0212-4 (1-4262-0212-1)
This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle—indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it's set in a Sudan shadowed by unrelenting war and ruthless violence, yet illuminated by faith, generosity, and steadfast... Read more >
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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Written by Meghan Daum
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45484-3 (0-307-45484-3)
From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.
After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to... Read more >
Written by Meghan Daum
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45484-3 (0-307-45484-3)
From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate—the true story of one woman’s “imperfect life lived among imperfect houses” and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.
After an itinerant suburban childhood and countless moves as a grown-up—from New York City to... Read more >
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Bobby's Book
Written by Emily Davidson
As told by Bob Powers
Photographed by Bruce Davidson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-1-60980-448-0 (1-60980-448-1)
In 1998, at the very moment that a publisher had approached Bruce Davidson about a book of his 1959 Brooklyn Gang photographs, former gang leader Bobby Powers unexpectedly telephoned the Davidsons. Over the next decade, Emily Davidson maintained an ongoing conversation with Powers in order to bring to light his struggle to overcome his... Read more >
Written by Emily Davidson
As told by Bob Powers
Photographed by Bruce Davidson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-1-60980-448-0 (1-60980-448-1)
In 1998, at the very moment that a publisher had approached Bruce Davidson about a book of his 1959 Brooklyn Gang photographs, former gang leader Bobby Powers unexpectedly telephoned the Davidsons. Over the next decade, Emily Davidson maintained an ongoing conversation with Powers in order to bring to light his struggle to overcome his... Read more >
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
Written by W.H. Davies
Preface by George Bernard Shaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-022-8 (1-61219-022-7)
An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. H. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written.
After a delinquent childhood, Davies renounced home and apprenticeship and at twenty-two sailed... Read more >
Written by W.H. Davies
Preface by George Bernard Shaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-022-8 (1-61219-022-7)
An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. H. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written.
After a delinquent childhood, Davies renounced home and apprenticeship and at twenty-two sailed... Read more >
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The Crowd Sounds Happy
A Story of Love and Madness in an American Family
Written by Nicholas Dawidoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70007-1 (0-375-70007-2)
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the... Read more >
A Story of Love and Madness in an American Family
Written by Nicholas Dawidoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70007-1 (0-375-70007-2)
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the... Read more >
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