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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Valhalla and its pantheon of gods and heroes have always fascinated readers, whether it is how these tales illuminate the Viking world or influence cultural touchstones like J.R.R. Tolkien, whose Middle Earth is heavily indebted to Germanic and Norse mythology, as well as Hollywood and comic-culture. In Tales of Valhalla, the Whittocks have dramatically retold these rich stories and sets them in context within the wider Viking world. Including both...
34582) Giovanni's room
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 159 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
34583) Man-made object
Author
Series
Publisher
Braziller
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
230 p. : ill.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxv, 245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Kent Nerburn received a letter from a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of welcome and encouragement to all artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts. From struggles...
34587) A history of loneliness
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An honorable Irish priest ... finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to 'the good.' Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the...
34588) Western Lane
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo. But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 419 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page--a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat...
34593) In the café of lost youth
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who was Louki? Did anyone really know? She made her mark on all of us in different ways. We all remember her, some of us more than others, but did any of us truly know her? Can anyone honestly say they know another person? In the Cafe of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, which includes vignettes...
34594) Chicken soup for the soul: Christmas magic : 101 holiday tales of inspiration, love, and wonder
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than 100 holiday stories spread the special joy, wonder and blessings of the season with its tales of finding the perfect Christmas tree, being with family, seeing the awe in a child's eyes and enjoying the magic of the season.
34595) Around the world in 80 books
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
432 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them"--
Publisher
Delcorte Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xii, 204 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of seventeen short stories, essays, cartoons, and poems about the different kinds of reckless behavior people exhibit, usually without regard for the consequences of their actions.
34598) Spark: how creativity works
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Harper pbk.
Physical Desc
xvii, 249 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? How is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits--movies, novels, paintings, songs--but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, journalist Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first...
34599) Doctorow: collected stories
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"E. L. Doctorow selected some of his finest stories to create this pinnacle collection, his final project before his death. There are 15 stories total, including "The Water Works," "Jolene," "All the Time in the World," and Doctorow's own revision of "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate.""--
34600) A country road, a tree
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the hardships yet stubborn vibrancy at the heart of Europe during...
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