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La Canción de Los Antiguos Amantes / Song of Old LoversLA NUEVA NOVELA DE LAURA RESTREPOUna doble historia de amor en un mundo al borde del colapso, por la ganadora de los premios Alfaguara, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y Grinzane Cavour.«Todo mito que nace renace. Todo mito que encarna reencarna .Obsesionado con...
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for...
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides"No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career--from travel to history to her own transition--she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty." --Stuart Emmrich, Vogue The first ever biography of a world famous author and transgender pioneer....
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My Name Is Gabriela/Me Llamo Gabriela (Bilingual): The Life of Gabriela Mistral/La Vida de Gabriela MistralGabriela Mistral understood the power of words. She worked hard in school and became a teacher and a poet.Author: Monica BrownPublisher: Rising Moon BooksPublished: 09/01/2005Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.60h x 9.30w x 0.50dISBN: 9780873588591Language: Multiple LanguagesAudience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.3Point Value: 0.5Interest...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist ProsePulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." -- Kirkus Reviews In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and...
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Write! Write! Write!Twenty-two poems capture the amazing power of writing and will inspire even the most reluctant writer to begin putting words to paper. Write! Write! Write! is a poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process, from learning the alphabet...
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The Completion of C. S. Lewis (1945-1963): From War to JoyLoss and Love in the Final Years of C. S. Lewis's Life The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy is the final volume in a trilogy on C. S. Lewis's life. In this third book, scholar Harry Lee Poe examines the...
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The Writers: PortraitsIntimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín "We've all seen writers on the dust jackets of their books. These portraits, it seemed to me, generally failed to convey either character or personality. Writers...
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James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian WriterA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult following. One of the most iconoclastic twentieth-century American novelists, James Purdy penned original and sometimes shocking works about...
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John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. TolkienA captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and...
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Who Is J.K. Rowling?Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the...
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Out of AfricaSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the...
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Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place*One of the Best Books of 2013 --The Millions, Flavorwire, Dazed & Confused, The L Magazine, Time Out ChicagoMcClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. McClanahan] aims...
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My Life in Dog YearsGary Paulsen has owned dozens of unforgettable and amazing dogs. In each chapter he tells of one special dog, among them Cookie, the sled dog who saved his life; Snowball, the puppy he owned as a boy in the Philippines; Ike, his mysterious hunting...
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Radiant Black, Volume 2: A Massive-Verse BookThe first wave of cosmic forces have arrived on Earth, desperate to reclaim the Radiant - and as they tear through Chicago, the only thing standing in their way is RADIANT BLACK and some unexpected new allies. In the aftermath, the city of Lockport...
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Home Is the Road: Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit"[Glancy's] long-distance drives take on the monastic qualities of a spiritual pilgrimage rather than serving merely as a means to a destination." --The New York Times Book Review The land carries voices. The land remembers what happened upon it. In traveling the land, I...
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Things My Son Needs to Know about the WorldThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he'll need to make his way in the world. Things My...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on WritingWhen the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America's greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It's hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches,...
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil stico puso ambas en riesgo. Durante su convalecencia, el novelista descubri...
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark TimesA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist...
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