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Ralph Ellison
2,209円
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigma...
2,209円
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigma...
Who We Are
2,368円
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular an...
2,368円
This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond.
E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular an...
Good God, Lousy World, and Me
2,052円
“In this extraordinary memoir of grace, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God on one of the most unlikely, irreverent, and utterly beautiful pilgrimages through life as it actually is.”
ーGary A. Haugen,...
2,052円
“In this extraordinary memoir of grace, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God on one of the most unlikely, irreverent, and utterly beautiful pilgrimages through life as it actually is.”
ーGary A. Haugen,...
Under the Red Blanket
1,143円
Under The Red Blanket is a memoir of a Swedish-American family living in a remote area of North East India among the Naga headhunting tribes. The book opens with the father of Bea, Bengt Anderson, immigrating to the United States from Sweden on the advice of his aunt Hedda, who worked as a cook f...
1,143円
Under The Red Blanket is a memoir of a Swedish-American family living in a remote area of North East India among the Naga headhunting tribes. The book opens with the father of Bea, Bengt Anderson, immigrating to the United States from Sweden on the advice of his aunt Hedda, who worked as a cook f...
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
788円
John Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But "John Reid" didn't write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America's bestselling financial guru, author of The Only Investme...
788円
John Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But "John Reid" didn't write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America's bestselling financial guru, author of The Only Investme...
Dear Chips
457円
‘A little advice from Papa will not come amiss’
So writes ‘the Old Boy’, working in the Colonial Service in Ethiopia to his son ‘Chips’, leaving Scotland for a life in the Rhodesian police (BSAP) in March 1963.
It was certainly a life-shaping letter, extolling variously on God, moral values, mann...
457円
‘A little advice from Papa will not come amiss’
So writes ‘the Old Boy’, working in the Colonial Service in Ethiopia to his son ‘Chips’, leaving Scotland for a life in the Rhodesian police (BSAP) in March 1963.
It was certainly a life-shaping letter, extolling variously on God, moral values, mann...
Don't Worry, It Gets Worse
946円
Alida Nugent graduated college with a degree in one hand and a drink in the other, eager to trade in parties and all-nighters for “the real world.” But post-grad wasn’t the glam life she imagined. Soon buried under a pile of bills, laundry, and three-dollar bottles of wine, it quickly became clea...
946円
Alida Nugent graduated college with a degree in one hand and a drink in the other, eager to trade in parties and all-nighters for “the real world.” But post-grad wasn’t the glam life she imagined. Soon buried under a pile of bills, laundry, and three-dollar bottles of wine, it quickly became clea...
To a Young Jazz Musician
1,103円
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prizeーwinning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained f...
1,103円
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prizeーwinning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained f...
Honor in the Dust
1,420円
“Fascinating.”ーNew York Times Book Review • “Well-written.”ーThe Boston Globe • “Extraordinary.”ーThe Christian Science Monitor • “A compelling page-turner.”ーAdam Hochschild
On the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the U.S. into a major world power. ...
1,420円
“Fascinating.”ーNew York Times Book Review • “Well-written.”ーThe Boston Globe • “Extraordinary.”ーThe Christian Science Monitor • “A compelling page-turner.”ーAdam Hochschild
On the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the U.S. into a major world power. ...
All Teachers Bright and Beautiful (Book 3)
2,422円
More lessons and life from the Yorkshire Dales...
All Teachers Bright and Beautiful is the concluding volume in Andy Seed's trilogy. As always, the book is peppered with the hilarious and heart-warming incidents that a life living and working with children inevitably contains. Andy Seed is sure t...
2,422円
More lessons and life from the Yorkshire Dales...
All Teachers Bright and Beautiful is the concluding volume in Andy Seed's trilogy. As always, the book is peppered with the hilarious and heart-warming incidents that a life living and working with children inevitably contains. Andy Seed is sure t...
Love In A Torn Land
1,502円
Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.
One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They w...
1,502円
Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.
One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They w...
Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
2,960円
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame
Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just how cl...
2,960円
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame
Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just how cl...