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White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public.
As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure... Read more >
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public.
As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure... Read more >
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Preface by John Stilgoe
Edited by Damion Searls
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $22.95
Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing... Read more >
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Preface by John Stilgoe
Edited by Damion Searls
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $22.95
Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing... Read more >
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The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life... Read more >
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Page Fright
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Written by Harry Bruce
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $25.95
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All... Read more >
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Written by Harry Bruce
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $25.95
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Page Fright
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Written by Harry Bruce
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $25.95
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All... Read more >
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Written by Harry Bruce
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $25.95
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $16.95
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $16.95
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
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The Road to San Giovanni
Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. "Storytelling at its best."--Chicago Tribune.
From the Trade Paperback edition.... Read more >
Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. "Storytelling at its best."--Chicago Tribune.
From the Trade Paperback edition.... Read more >
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The Story of a Life
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $13.00
In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us–for the first time–the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.
Aharon Appelfeld’s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz in 1941, penned the Jews into a ghetto, and, a few months later... Read more >
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $13.00
In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us–for the first time–the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth.
Aharon Appelfeld’s childhood ended when he was seven years old. The Nazis occupied Czernowitz in 1941, penned the Jews into a ghetto, and, a few months later... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Pat Conroy Cookbook
Recipes and Stories of My Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep South and the... Read more >
Recipes and Stories of My Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep South and the... Read more >
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The Pat Conroy Cookbook
Recipes and Stories of My Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep South and the... Read more >
Recipes and Stories of My Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conroy mixes them together with mouthwatering recipes from the Deep South and the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.
While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions... Read more >
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.
While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions... Read more >
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Robertson Davies
A Portrait in Mosaic
Written by Val Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $19.95
National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book
A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.
From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was... Read more >
A Portrait in Mosaic
Written by Val Ross
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $19.95
National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book
A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.
From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Wilkomirski Affair
A Study in Biographical Truth
Written by Stefan Maechler
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.
In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was
published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne... Read more >
A Study in Biographical Truth
Written by Stefan Maechler
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.
In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was
published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Letters from the Editor
The New Yorker's Harold Ross
Edited by Thomas Kunkel
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $23.00
These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to... Read more >
The New Yorker's Harold Ross
Edited by Thomas Kunkel
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $23.00
These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Weeds in Bloom
Autobiography of an Ordinary Man
Written by Robert Newton Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $6.50
With over 65 books published, including the breathtaking (and somewhat autobiographical) A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck has enjoyed an illustrious writing career. Now, in an autobiography as unique as he is, Peck tells his story through the people in his life. From his roots as a poor... Read more >
Autobiography of an Ordinary Man
Written by Robert Newton Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $6.50
With over 65 books published, including the breathtaking (and somewhat autobiographical) A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck has enjoyed an illustrious writing career. Now, in an autobiography as unique as he is, Peck tells his story through the people in his life. From his roots as a poor... Read more >
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The Fatal Englishman
Three Short Lives
Written by Sebastian Faulks
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.
Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was... Read more >
Three Short Lives
Written by Sebastian Faulks
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $14.00
In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.
Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Epileptic
Written by David B.
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes... Read more >
Written by David B.
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Shoot the Widow
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Written by Meryle Secrest
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a “life” is... Read more >
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Written by Meryle Secrest
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a “life” is... Read more >
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Gabriel García Márquez
A Life
Written by Gerald Martin
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $37.50
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in... Read more >
A Life
Written by Gerald Martin
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $37.50
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in... Read more >
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eBook.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Written by Gerald Martin
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $19.95
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in... Read more >
Written by Gerald Martin
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $19.95
The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.
Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent many hours in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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A Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life.
Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on—Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert... Read more >
Ways of Looking and Feeling
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life.
Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on—Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert... Read more >
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A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Rediscovering India
Written by M.G. Vassanji
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Life of Kingsley Amis
Written by Zachary Leader
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $39.95
Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion: Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation–having first achieved prominence with the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954... Read more >
Written by Zachary Leader
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $39.95
Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion: Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation–having first achieved prominence with the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
