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The End of Your Life Book Club
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
An Entertainment Weekly and BookPage Best Book of the Year
During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at...
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $11.99
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $11.99
“What are you reading?”
That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Metamorphosis
Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his... Read more >
Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his... Read more >
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How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $25.00
A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare’s death in... Read more >
Written by Ken Ludwig
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $25.00
A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare’s death in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Walden
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2004
Price: $10.95
First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and... Read more >
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2004
Price: $10.95
First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and... Read more >
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $17.00
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume... Read more >
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2004
Price: $17.00
When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $24.95
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer
In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $40.00
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $40.00
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Art of the Personal Essay
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1997
Price: $21.00
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals... Read more >
An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1997
Price: $21.00
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals... Read more >
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.00
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
