"On Permission: A Manifesto for Writers, Artists, and Dreamers is for anyone with a creative impulse, a resource to be reached for during times both fertile and not. The creative process often unfolds, al…
"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty…
A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textil…
"The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty…
This is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their recommendations about how to think and …
"This is a collection of story-essays diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm whe…
An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without war.
Has there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be …
From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the search for treasure in a childhood Eden.
"For as long as I can remember," the author writes, "I heard the sea." At…
"A beloved English classic that celebrates a bygone world and the innocence and wonder of childhood-more than six million copies sold worldwide. Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Gloucestershire, then a remo…
An amnesic searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Guy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost…
A mind-bending mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User's Manual.
A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of tra…
"One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."--Boston Globe
Structured around a …
Cultural upheavals have brought enormous change to the world of art. This sweeping history, covering more than 200 years, puts recent changes in a revealing new context. Here's the how and the why of chan…
"An intimate history of America's first publicly funded artists' housing project, the artists who lived there, and the transformation of New York's West Village across five decades. Westbeth Artists Housi…
The Charterhouse of Padma is a novel told in two parts: in each half, a South Asian woman, "P," living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is writing an essay about her favorite color: chartreuse. The first P is a…
"In every sense a true and thrilling novel."--New York Times Book Review
>An international bestseller when first published in 1933, and the first novel in modern times to capture genocide by a state, Fra…
"A profound and provocative journey through the human body from a surgeon and award-winning writer. What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the ana…
"Attorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. Sometimes, Providence i…
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