Listen to the Echoes
The Ray Bradbury Interviews
Written by Ray Bradbury and Sam Weller
Foreword by Black Francis

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $18.95

A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future.

Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the... Read more >

Dropped Threads 2
More of What We Aren't Told
Written by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2010
Price: $11.99

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or... Read more >

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Written by Selina Hastings

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $20.99

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark... Read more >

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Written by Selina Hastings

Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $35.00

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark... Read more >

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Her Life
Written by Susan Hertog

Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $13.99

An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea is a perennial favorite. But the... Read more >

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
1903-1942
Written by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt
Translated by Euan Cameron

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $20.99

The first major biography of the author of Suite Française

The posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic and moving than her most powerful fiction.

With her family, she escaped Russia... Read more >

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
1903-1942
Written by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt
Translated by Euan Cameron

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $35.00

The first major biography of the author of Suite Française

The posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic and moving than her most powerful fiction.

With her family, she escaped Russia... Read more >

Ancestors
A Family History
Written by William Maxwell

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99

The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how... Read more >

Somerset Maugham
A Life
Written by Jeffrey Meyers

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $13.99

An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge -- which sold over 40 million copies in his lifetime.

Born in Paris to sophisticated parents... Read more >

Trading Twelves
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Written by Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Preface by Albert Murray
Edited by John Callahan
Introduction by John Callahan

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99

This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion.

The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man... Read more >

Shakespeare
The Biography
Written by Peter Ackroyd

Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $14.99

Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape–the industry, the animals, even... Read more >

The Amateur
An Independent Life of Letters
Written by Wendy Lesser

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2010
Price: $14.99

In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, her experiences, and... Read more >

Lives of the Poets

Written by Michael Schmidt

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 14, 2010
Price: $16.99

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a... Read more >

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Written by David Lipsky
Read by Mike Chamberlain and Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $17.50

"If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.  To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a... Read more >

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Written by David Lipsky

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $13.99

"If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.  To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a... Read more >

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Written by David Lipsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $16.99

"If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.  To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a... Read more >

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Gift of Wings
Written by Mary Henley Rubio

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $21.95

Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased – are only part... Read more >

The First Poets
Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Written by Michael Schmidt

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2010
Price: $14.99

A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination.

Starting with the legendary... Read more >

Mark Twain's Other Woman

Written by Laura Skandera Trombley

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $13.99

Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, reveals the never-before-read letters and daily journals of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain’s last personal secretary.
 
For six years, Isabel Lyon was responsible for running the aging Man in White’s chaotic household, nursing him through several illnesses and serving as his adoring...

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Cheever
A Life
Written by Blake Bailey

Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $16.95

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s... Read more >

Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
Written by Kathleen Dean Moore

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.95

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in... Read more >

In the Absence of Sun
A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family
Written by Helie Lee

Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2010
Price: $14.99

A breathtaking true story of a rescue mission undertaken by a young woman and her family in one of the most repressive countries in the world.

Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the family’s daring escape from North... Read more >

Living a Year of Kaddish
A Memoir
Written by Ari Goldman

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2010
Price: $9.99

Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of... Read more >

Yehuda Halevi

Written by Hillel Halkin

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.00

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry.
 
Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Poet, philosopher... Read more >

Yehuda Halevi

Written by Hillel Halkin

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $14.99

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry.
 
Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Poet, philosopher... Read more >