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Precious Cargo

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is

Double Life of Paul de Man

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) A landmark biography that reveals the secret past of one of the most influential academics of

The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog

Haunted by endless tiny humiliations, struggling to resurrect the corpse of his literary career and ensnared in a loving yet bamboozling marriage, A man at

Varina

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold

My Brother, Muhammad Ali

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman.

Feel Good 101

THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE But it might just help you change it yourself Only you can take the steps you need to help

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so

Love, Africa

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against on...

Untitled Holt Nonfiction Winter 2021

A young reader’s adaptation of whistleblower and bestselling author Edward Snowden's memoir—featuring a brand-new afterword that includes resources to learn about the bas...

VETERANS

Published to coincide with Armistice Day, this book is based upon the memories of World War 1 veterans. They provide us with accounts of stark

In Their Own Write

Legends are not born. They are made. And some write their way into the league of extraordinary people. This notebook is an ode to the

Partnership

Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most

Idris Elba: So, Now What?

From starring as the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord Stringer Bell in the iconic HBO series The Wire, to playing Madiba himself in the long-awaited biopic

The Harding Affair

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano--the single most important literary voice to come out of Latin America in the last decades.

A sawdust heart

In the early twentieth century, before radio and motion pictures became widespread, rural Americans had few options for entertainment. While vaudeville theaters were pro...

Hunting LeRoux

With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolut...

Strictly Me

Cricket.

To the Bridge

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children? On May 23,

The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

În această nouă biografie definitivă, Carol Ann Lee oferă răspunsul la una dintre cele mai sfâșietoare întrebări ale timpurilor moderne: cine a trădat-o pe Anne

The Brontës in Brussells

The Brontës' time in Belgium, five years before they became best-selling authors, is the least-known episode of their lives, but is a fascinating and important

You're on an Airplane

From the 'Queen of the Indies' and star of Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, Woody Allen's Cafe Society and Irrational Man

Neglected

Micul Jamey, în vârstă de 21/2 ani, este plasat la asistenta maternală cu experiență, Cathy Glass, în regim de urgență. Poliția și serviciile sociale nu

The 10 Worst Serial Killers

A gripping analysis of the world's ten worst serial killers. They have been selected not simply because of their high 'body counts': these killers are

Ready, Steady, Go!

Shawn Levy, author of Rat Pack Confidential brings alive London in the Swinging Sixties with a groovy story of those who created the scene that

Known and unknown

With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administra...

Penguins Stopped Play

Comedy writer and TV producer Harry Thompson (1960-2005) started his Captain Scott Invitation XI while at Oxford in the 1970s, and early members included Hugh

Manderley Forever : The Life of Daphne du Maurier

Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A

The Life of Beccafumi

Contemporary of Vasari’s hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic

A Wild Life

The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks

My adventures with your money

'Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he

The Moment

An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike, a tweet . . . sometimes all it takes is

A Lifetime Burning

Inspired by lines from T.S. Eliot's poem 'East Coker,' Richard Quinney contemplates in this memoir his family's artifacts and their final disposal when their generations-...

My Father's Glass Eye

A definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unravelling after his death. My Father's Glass Eye

Chuck Close

Spune povestea vieții și operelor artistului american Chuck Close, descriind diferitele sale abordări ale portretului și hotărârea sa de a depăși aproape paralizia de la...

Ben Jonson

Soldat, satiric, duelist, scriitor de masca principal la curtea timpurie Stuart, tutore al fiului lui Sir Walter Ralegh și cel mai mare contemporan al lui

Close to My Heart

Aceasta este autobiografia unei femei liniștite a cărei conștiință și acțiuni sociale excepționale sunt un exemplu al influenței pe care o persoană o poate avea

The rise of Abraham Cahan

Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New York City in 1897. Over the

No Art Without Craft

Theodore Low De Vinne was a seminal figure in the history of American printing. De Vinne was born in upstate New York, the son of

Songs Only You Know

A Brief Life Of The Queen

A short illustrated life of Elizabeth II by her leading biographer for her Diamond Jubilee. 'A brief life of the Queen' applies the classic formula

Street Kid

Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in his backyard, Judy suffered in a Manchester orphanage run by nuns before being

Leo Tolstoy And The Alibi Of Narrative

Elaborating this theory of authorship while revisiting Tolstoy's most famous works of fiction, Weir offers new interpretations of the Childhood trilogy, The Cossacks, Wa...

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

O nouă biografie majoră a lui Duke Ellington de la aclamatul autor al cărții Pops: O viață a lui Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington

Living in a Mindful Universe

In 2008, Dr Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he lapsed into a weeklong coma. It was

Hemingway and His Conspirators

Explores how Ernest Hemingway seized upon an emerging mass culture to become the premier author of the time

Henry James

The first volume in a magisterial biography of Henry James sheds light on the life and times of the distinguished author of Portrait of a

Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story

In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of humble origins, the youngest son in a poor family named after the planter who had

Women on the Renaissance Stage

Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Sta...

Climbing the Bookshelves

The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want

Hebrews Between Cultures

The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg’s last book, established a new level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, he shifts his focu...

Aesthetics

Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips

Judas: How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal

Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the

Say What You Mean

The n+1 Anthology is a selection from the best of n+1, a Brooklyn-based print magazine of politics, literature and culture, founded in 2004 and published

Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse

„Trapped” a fost primul Sunday Times bestseller și prima autobiografie a asistentului social Rosie Lewis. Phoebe, un copil de nouă ani cu autism este luată

Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth's ideas and explores the substa...

Sultan of Zanzibar

'A generation knew him as the man behind behind the infamous 1910 Dreadnougth hoax, when the Royal Navy was fooled into honouring a troupe of

Raif Badawi : the Voice of Freedom

The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black eyes. He is in the process of becoming an icon, a

Hardy

A concise biography of a man who during his lifetime (1840-1928) published 14 novels, nearly 50 short stories, a 3-volume epic, and close to 1000

Don't Let My Past Be Your Future

'Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society' Jeremy Corbyn THIS A CALL TO

Broken Blue Line

Ali's book offers an insight into the real world of modern policing: the demands and challenges faced by frontline officers throughout the UK. Ali's hope

Timeless

'Words by the millions have been printed about you, but none have revealed your real life, your secret life--which is that you belong to me.'

Victor Hugo's Conversations With the Spirit World

'First English translation of Victor Hugo's writings on his experiments in spiritualism'--Provided by publisher.

Daily Telegraph Book Of Imperial And Commonwealth Obituaries

Illustrating the spread of Imperial British culture around the world, this collection of obituaries sheds light on the most interesting, exotic and eccentric individuals ...

Harry's games

Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer? Master tactician or practical joker? How is it that even when he was facing court proceedings

Dreams from My Father

'Dreams from My Father: O poveste despre rasă și moștenire' este o memoriu scrisă de Barack Obama, al 44-lea președinte al Statelor Unite. În această

Serving The Servant

From 1990 to 1994 top music manager Danny Goldberg worked with Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle, and

Go Big or Go Home

Told in his authentic, down-to-earth voice, Scotty McCreery shares behind-the-scenes stories from his life, both on and off the stage. Go Big or Go Home

Churchill's Bestiary: Winston Churchill and the Animal Kingdom

Following the pattern of medieval bestiaries, Brendons book illuminates the life and work of Winston Churchill through animals, from the Albatross he invoked in an

Sphinx

Născută la Paris din părinți americani în 1881, Gladys a ieșit dintr-o copilărie traumatizantă - tatăl ei împușcându-l pe iubitul mamei sale când Gladys avea

Eternal Wonder

Chris Hamilton developed his love of nature while living by the River Lea in Wheathampstead from the age of 15, canoeing up and down the

The Saboteur

'A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest

Autobiography of a Face

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she

Serial Killers

Lust, power, madness and money drive us all in our daily lives, yet we know the difference between right and wrong, and most of us

Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on

Wrestling with My Thoughts

Unique voice of a medical doctor who has experienced severe and enduring mental illness and is passionate about helping others.

John Keats

John Keats a murit tânăr, lăsând în urmă unele dintre cele mai cunoscute poeme în limba engleză, cum ar fi „Ode to a Nightingale”, „Ode

Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children.

Touched By God

In June 1986 Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, proudly hoisted the '86 Mexico World Championship Cup in

Sand In My Shoes Coming of Age in the Second World War

A moving and personal account of a young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice.

Our Story Spl

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful

By Any Means

Bikes have always been Charley's first love, but he also enjoys a challenge. So when the chance comes to travel across three continents 'by any

Apollinaire and the Great War, 1914-18

This title draws heavily on Apollinaire's writings to tell the story of his war years, within the wider context of the French experience of the

The Wallace: Selections (Teams Middle English Texts), Anne McKim

The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of