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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to CaliforniaA young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer--the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother--leased 10 acres of land in Gold...
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Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and OccupationOperation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths--and, yet, it was only the latest in a long...
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The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. BowerB. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first author to make a living writing popular westerns, creating more than sixty novels and hundreds of short stories that were read by millions of Americans. Bower's were among the first westerns adapted to film, and the...
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely LifeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of essays. Featuring his most important life lessons, strongest advice, and plenty of heartwarming tales, Richard Paul Evans tackles a variety of...
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Gertrude and AliceGertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became...
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Walden & Civil Disobedience (Masterpiece Library Edition)Read Thoreau's most influential works in one stunning volume! With reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living, Thoreau's writings ask readers to question the status quo and live in accordance with their principles.Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Peter Pauper PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 319Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781441341501
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Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis and the Chronicles of NarniaNOT A TAME LION offers a clear view of the character of C.S. Lewis.Author: Terry W. GlaspeyPublisher: Cumberland House PublishingPublished: 10/01/2005Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.06h x 5.08w x 0.76dISBN: 9781581824834This title is not returnable
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Kafka: A Very Short IntroductionFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his...
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Stepping Into Mark Twain's WorldTake a riverboat ride back to 1800s America and learn how Mark Twain's world influenced his writing. This nonfiction text breathes life into the pages of history, and gives students a sense of what life was like in Mark Twain's time. Developed by Timothy...
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Joseph Addison: An Intellectual BiographyThe name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison's writings "contributed more to the improvement...
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Joseph Addison: An Intellectual BiographyThe name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison's writings "contributed more to the improvement...
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ScatterlingsAuthor: Resoketswe Martha ManenzhePublisher: HarperviaPublished: 12/19/2023Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780063264120
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Wandering Through Life: A MemoirIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to...
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Shimmering Details, Volume II: A MemoirThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents' lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His TimeJack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his...
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Shimmering Details, Volume I: A MemoirThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. "Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others," Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his illuminating memoir,...
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the WestNominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging...
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Furniture MusicIn Furniture Music, Montreal luminary Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark's Poetry Project and...
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Clarice Lispector - EncontrosClarice Lispector, Ukrainian naturalized Brazilian, is today rated as one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. Although she was discreet about her personal life, Clarice gave great interviews interviews, where she exposed her ideas on literature and existential and existential concerns. This...
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The Mystery WriterThere's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be trueWhen Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few...
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