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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: $12.99
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $12.99
“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 End of Your Life Book Club
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.00
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.00
“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,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $37.50
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $37.50
This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her...
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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 >
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eBook.
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Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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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 >
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hardcover.
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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.95
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who... Read more >
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.95
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
The Doorbell Rang
Written by Rex Stout
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $5.99
Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats. Read more >
Written by Rex Stout
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $5.99
Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats. Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >
