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Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented

Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented

In 1935, when she was fourteen years old, Ilse Gross fled Germany. Alone. Seventeen years later, she published her audac......more

Jean Racine: A Critical Biography

Jean Racine: A Critical Biography

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology a......more

Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic Sv1 and the End of Industrial Modernity

Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic Sv1 and the End of Industrial Modernity

Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously l......more

Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres

Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres

Movies and memory intersect in this compelling and unconventional memoir from queer writer, film aficionado, and Jeopard......more

A Light Through the Cracks: One Climber’s Path Through Tragedy, Recovery, and Embracing Imperfection

A Light Through the Cracks: One Climber’s Path Through Tragedy, Recovery, and Embracing Imperfection

Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by......more

A Light Through the Cracks: One Climber’s Path Through Tragedy, Recovery, and Embracing Imperfection

A Light Through the Cracks: One Climber’s Path Through Tragedy, Recovery, and Embracing Imperfection

Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by......more

Airship of Dreams: The Man Who Rode the Titanic of the Skies

Airship of Dreams: The Man Who Rode the Titanic of the Skies

"Airship of Dreams" is a true story that can be read by itself, although it is also Book #1 of the VALIANT HEART trilogy......more

Andy Varipapa: Bowling’s First Superstar

Andy Varipapa: Bowling’s First Superstar

Born in Italy in 1891, Andy Varipapa immigrated to the United States in 1903, uneducated and unable to speak English. Eq......more

The Boomer Guide to Parenting: How the Worst Generation Destroyed the Planet, But First a Child

The Boomer Guide to Parenting: How the Worst Generation Destroyed the Planet, But First a Child

An outrageous, lacerating memoir of being raised by the most selfish generation into a very unproductive member of socie......more

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

In the increasingly dirty world of British politics, one man has stood out for unimpeachable integrity - the former Labo......more

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

Although the children’s story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumors surroun......more

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child ......more

William Marshal’s Wife: Isabel de Clare, Woman of Influence

William Marshal’s Wife: Isabel de Clare, Woman of Influence

The real story of Isabel de Clare, William Marshal’s wife, a powerful woman who was a key figure in the history of Irela......more

Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York

Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York

This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Mar......more

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII’s Sixth Queen

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII’s Sixth Queen

Katheryn Parr is mainly remembered today as being the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the one who ’survived’. Katheryn wa......more

Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships

Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships

Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having pass......more

Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps

Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps

Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly t......more

Death by Boomers: How the Worst Generation Destroyed the Planet, But First a Child

Death by Boomers: How the Worst Generation Destroyed the Planet, But First a Child

An outrageous, lacerating memoir of being raised by the most selfish generation into a very unproductive member of socie......more

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

"Fascinating."--Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."--Rhys Blakely, Times (......more

The Artist Explorers: Painting the New World

The Artist Explorers: Painting the New World

It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the Brit......more

Saul Bellow: I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer

Saul Bellow: I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer

Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of......more

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

An in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United ......more

Khushwantnama

Khushwantnama

Khushwant Singh is one of the most prolific writers India has produced. In Khushwantnama: The Lessons Of My Life, Khushw......more

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood

In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders,......more

Mirrored Minds: Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen

Mirrored Minds: Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen

In her unique dual biography, Kate Ashton delineates the parallel lives of Hans Christian Anderson and Sen Kierkegaard, ......more

Hippos, a Mongoose and Me: Tales of Rescue and Survival in the Wilds of Africa

Hippos, a Mongoose and Me: Tales of Rescue and Survival in the Wilds of Africa

In this sequel to the popular A Hippo Love Story, Karen Paolillo takes us deeper into her courageous but perilous life a......more

Requiem in Raga Janki

Requiem in Raga Janki

In the early years of the twentieth century, in what was then British India, culture thrived in the city of Allahabad. I......more

Babur: The Chessboard King

Babur: The Chessboard King

Babur, the visionary founder of Timurid Empire in Hindustan, had a fair share of early struggle following his father’s t......more

Forgotten Genius - The Life and Games of Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic

Forgotten Genius - The Life and Games of Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic

Dragoljub Velimirovic was a former Yugoslav - Serbian, chess grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by p......more

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An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader....more

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

"A wickedly entertaining" (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search f......more

Voice of Truth: A Mother’s Journey to Help Her Son Heal from Apraxia of Speech

Voice of Truth: A Mother’s Journey to Help Her Son Heal from Apraxia of Speech

Tori Starling’s son, Jake, had always been a quiet, happy baby. But when the silence stretched into his toddler years, T......more

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account of the Westminster Do......more

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time--Barbara Walters--a woman whose personal ......more

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533- c.1600), a Florentine sculptor a......more

Lake Whatcom: A History

Lake Whatcom: A History

Timber mills, coal mines and a carnival. In the late 1800s, Lake Whatcom emerged as both the key to the growth of Bellin......more

True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula

True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula

A magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula mak......more

En Route to Gaby Glückselig - Tracing the Past in the Present

En Route to Gaby Glückselig - Tracing the Past in the Present

Documentation of a personal confrontation with the aftermath of the Holocaust. The occasion is her travels to the regula......more

A Long Season of Ashes

A Long Season of Ashes

In March 1990, sixteen-year-old Siddhartha Gigoo is forced to flee his home in Safa Kadal, Srinagar, Kashmir. The preced......more

Defoe’s Britain

Defoe’s Britain

The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain ......more

Beyond the Crises: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI

Beyond the Crises: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI

"I have felt like Saint Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us so many days of......more

Defoe’s Britain

Defoe’s Britain

The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain ......more

Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People

Something about the Author: Facts and Pictures about Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-19

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated bi......more

Accidental Blooms

Accidental Blooms

Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York C......more

In My Skin: Learning to Love Your Perfectly Imperfect Life

In My Skin: Learning to Love Your Perfectly Imperfect Life

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-18

It’s taken 27 years for Sophie Lee to feel comfortable in her skin. This the real-life story of one woman’s courage in r......more

The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England

The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England

Read all about the royal women who were powerful in their own right, as well as through their husbands, sons, and grands......more

Amanda Knox: Crime, Trial, Release and Controversy

Amanda Knox: Crime, Trial, Release and Controversy

The first major publication about the case since Amanda Knox’s final exoneration. In November 2007 the body of British s......more

Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot

Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot

Eric ’Winkle’ Brown was Britain’s greatest pilot. His extraordinary flying career saw him fight in the Battle of Britain......more

The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3: Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie

The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3: Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-18

This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in det......more

Nine Lives and Counting

Nine Lives and Counting

"You may think you know Dog the Bounty Hunter. Think again. This time, I’m writing my story--my way." Within Nine Lives ......more

Good Taste: A Life of Food and Passion

Good Taste: A Life of Food and Passion

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-16

A memoir and manifesto from the world’s most Michelin starred chef, Alain Ducasse, with introductions by internationally......more

The Longest Climb: Back from the Abyss

The Longest Climb: Back from the Abyss

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-16

An inspiring, moving, and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains. Born in B......more

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off ......more

Your Hand in Mine

Your Hand in Mine

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfillin......more

On a Trail of Southwest Discovery: The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888

On a Trail of Southwest Discovery: The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-16

The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition (1886-1889), directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, was the first priva......more

The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Ch......more

Searching for Solid Ground: A Memoir

Searching for Solid Ground: A Memoir

An inspiring narrative of bridge-building, hope, and resilience from a beloved folk musician. Before renowned musician R......more

Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography

Renegade at Heart: An Autobiography

Meet the real Lorenzo Lamas. Lorenzo Lamas has played many roles over the course of his roller coaster career. Star of t......more

Rough Magic: Life with Borderline Personality Disorder

Rough Magic: Life with Borderline Personality Disorder

A harrowing but ultimately uplifting memoir about living with borderline personality disorder--the most stigmatized diag......more

Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of Inner Fulfillment

Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of Inner Fulfillment

Unhappy Achiever is a ​story of healing, of revolutionary awakening--of what happens when we summon our courage to step ......more

On Comics and Grief

On Comics and Grief

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-16

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief surr......more

Starfish Blues

Starfish Blues

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-04-16

Rasheena Fountain’s sweeping memoir centers on stories of Black migration, exploration, and relationships to nature and ......more

Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers--including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker--this vivid and a......more

Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life

Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An ......more

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rus......more

The Trojan Kings of Britain

The Trojan Kings of Britain

The Trojan Kings of Britain presents a theory that the legend of Brutus, descendant of Aeneas of Troy, migrating to Brit......more

How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became: An Experiment in Autoethnography

How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became: An Experiment in Autoethnography

In his exploration of his development as one of the most prolific and thoughtful writers in the field of writing studies......more

One Step Ahead: A Jewish Fugitive in Hitler’s Europe

One Step Ahead: A Jewish Fugitive in Hitler’s Europe

Through compelling personal accounts and family correspondence, One Step Ahead documents Alfred Feldman’s harrowing flig......more

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

In Third Worlds Within, Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing antiracist mo......more

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

In Third Worlds Within, Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing antiracist mo......more

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he’s died many times. Not just on stage - though he’ll tell you a......more

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*AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW* The memoir from Wrexham’s star player, Paul Mullin - as seen in Welcome to Wrexham, a Disne......more

Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis

Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis

Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis ......more

The Wives: A Memoir

The Wives: A Memoir

A powerful, intimate memoir of marriage and friendship that traces one woman’s experience joining a tightknit community ......more

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