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April Twilights and Other Poems
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
Written by Willa Cather
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.50
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded... Read more >
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Indian Givers
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $15.00
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack... Read more >
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $15.00
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack... Read more >
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For the Time Being
Written by Annie Dillard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $11.99
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being... Read more >
Written by Annie Dillard
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $11.99
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bento's Sketchbook
Written by John Berger
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $32.50
Written by John Berger
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $32.50
Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.
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Also available as an
eBook.
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The Shakespeare Wars
Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
Written by Ron Rosenbaum
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $13.99
“[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”
–David Remnick
In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood... Read more >
Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
Written by Ron Rosenbaum
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $13.99
“[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”
–David Remnick
In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
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
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Playing In The Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $13.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $13.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
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Letters to a Young Poet
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Foreword by Stephen Mitchell
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Foreword by Stephen Mitchell
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Written by Tom Robbins
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $9.99
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Written by Tom Robbins
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $9.99
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: eBook, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: eBook, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
