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  • P.G. Wodehouse in His Own Words

    by Barry Day, Tony Ring ...
    This unorthodox biography of “the greatest comic writer ever” collects Wodehouse’s witty and revealing commentary on his own life story (Douglas Adams)As creator of memorable comic characters, including the immortal Jeeves and Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse was one of the most beloved and influential authors of the 20th century. This sparkling volume draws on Wodehouse’s autobiographical writings, as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 红楼梦

    by (清）曹雪芹 ...
    社会主义时代的读者，应当把《红楼梦》作为当时社会阶级斗争的历史反映，运用历史唯物主义观点有分析有批判地阅读。当然，这并不是说，《红楼梦》所叙述的就是个别家庭、个别人物的实事记录；我们所说的作为“历史”来阅读，是因为它用典型的艺术形象反映了封建社会的阶级斗争，揭露了贵族统治阶级和封建制度的黑暗、腐朽的各个方面，以及它的不可避免的崩溃的必然趋势。封建阶级的贵族社会，在这部小说里给我们留下了完整而深刻的真实形象。因而，在丰富我们对历史的感性认识的意义上，可以说，读一读《红楼梦》，有助于我们更清楚地了解中国的封建社会。……《红楼梦》第四回“葫芦僧判断葫芦案”的一节文字，可以看作这部小说的总纲。这节文字写了清朝贵族统治的所谓“护官符”：“凡做地方官的都有一个私单，上面写的是本省最有权势极富贵的大乡绅名姓，各省皆然；倘若不知，一时触犯了这样的人家，不但官爵，只怕连性命也难保呢！——所以叫做‘护官符’。 ... Read more

    $23.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creators of Batman

    Bob, Bill & The Dark Knight

    by Rik Worth ...
    In the early days 20th century the emerging medium of comics was beginning to grab the attention of children and adults alike. Then, in the 1930s, superheroes revolutionised the entire industry and culture as we know it. Gotham’s caped crusader, The Batman, swung into this pantheon of demi-gods in 1939 and secured his place as one of the world’s most beloved characters. But do know who created The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gun iedere kabouter zijn eigen muts

    Levenslessen waarvan je niet wist dat je ze nodig had

    by Aaf Brandt Corstius ...
    Geliefd columnist Aaf Brandt Corstius laat zich inspireren door uitspraken die ze in het dagelijks leven tegenkomt en die haar raken of aan het denken zetten – een perfect cadeauboekHaar hele leven hunkert Aaf Brandt Corstius al naar wijze raad, en die doet ze en passant op bij vrienden en vreemden en uit boeken, kranten en afgeluisterde gesprekken. Zo’n wijs advies is vaak één enkel zinnetje waar ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street

    Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73

    Edited by John Saumarez Smith ...
    Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller.Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill’s famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agatha Christie

    An Elusive Woman

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley."Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Catherine Gray ...
    Series series The Unexpected Joy Of
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Not remotely preachy' - The Times'Jaunty, shrewd and convincing' - Sunday Telegraph'Admirably honest, light, bubbly and remarkably rarely annoying.' - Alice O'Keeffe, Guardian'Truthful, modern and real' - Stylist'Brave, witty and brilliantly written' - Marie Claire</strong... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dear Memory

    Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

    by Victoria Chang ...
    A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.For poet Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

    The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Matthew J. Bruccoli ...
    “Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There’s no reason to own another.” —Library JournalThe Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dangerous Liaison

    A Revelatory New Biography of Simon de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Carole Seymour-Jones ...
    The renowned biographer offers a tale of intellectual and romantic rivalry in this “dazzling portrait of Sartre and De Beauvoir’s relationship” (The Guardian).Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the twentieth century’s most prominent authors and philosophers, and the story of their decades-long relationship is one of the most famous literary romances of all time. From the corridors ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.Thomas Hardy hailed her as ‘far and away the best living woman poet’; the formidable Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was the writer of some of the best English poems of the twentieth century.In her private life, to all appearances, Mew was a dutiful daughter living at home with her elderly ... Read more

    $5.49 USD $3.49 USD

  • Memory Manifesto

    A Walking Meditation through Cambodia

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    Memory Manifesto’s 35 short chapters reveal Christopher G. Moore’s personal map of the Cambodia labyrinth. Moore worked as journalist, novelist, and essayist which took him through T-3 prison, Khmer Rouge minefields, border refugee camps in the company of activists, artists, film makers, musicians, writers and unsavory characters.  The overall effect is a powerful vision of one writer’s memory ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • To Name the Bigger Lie

    A Memoir in Two Stories

    by Sarah Viren ...
    Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.Sarah’s story begins as she’s researching what she believes will be a book about her high school ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Paula

    by Isabel Allende ...
    Un autorretrato de insólita emotividad al tiempo que exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.«Aquí está todo lo que debe tener un libro: oído, perspectiva, cabeza, corazón y una humanidad sin límites.»The New York TimesCualquier libro de Isabel Allende es un acontecimiento. Paula lo es especialmente porque se trata del más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Under the Table

    Saucy Tales from Culinary School

    by Katherine Darling ...
    A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipesTo anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a savory dose of reality in this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

    by Charles Dickens ...
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    by Hunter S. Thompson ...
    50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalistThis cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sky of Stone

    by Homer Hickam ...
    Series Book 3 - Coalwood
    Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky, “an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way, Hickam’s follow-up to October Sky, “a heartwarmer ... truly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • James Patterson by James Patterson

    The Stories of My Life

    by James Patterson ...
    How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? This "fizzing, funny, often deeply moving" (Daily Mail) #1 New York Times bestselling memoir is “damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write!” (Ron Howard)On the morning he was born, he nearly died.His dad grew up in the Pogey– the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse.He worked at a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great American Read: The Book of Books

    Explore America's 100 Best-Loved Novels

    by PBS ...
    A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    His Life and Legacy

    by Jeffrey Meyers ...
    This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • My Time to Speak

    Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race

    by Ilia Calderón ...
    An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award–winning journalist Ilia Calderón—the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States—about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity.As a child, Ilia Calderón felt like a typical girl from Colombia. In Chocó, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Harry the K

    The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas

    by Randy Miller ...
    To Philadelphia Phillies fans, he was the soundtrack of summer. To millions of football fans across America, he was the "Voice of the NFL." And as open and giving as Harry Kalas was throughout his professional and personal life, there are countless layers of the man that have remained unknown . . . until now.Author Randy Miller interviewed more than 160 people -- including all of Harry's surviving ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

    by Taylor Brorby ...
    **"Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight." —Jung Yun, New York Times Book ReviewFrom a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”**“I am a child of the American West, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD