From National Book Critics Circle Award winner Paul Hendrickson, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived
and understood.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinna[...]

"A witty and lively novel set somewhere between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh." --William Dalyrymple, "The Guardian"
Reminiscent of early Roddy Doyle, "Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma" begins with our singular heroine's less than idyllic birth and quic[...]

Following her critically acclaimed debut, "Don't Look Back," Karin Fossum's next mystery finds Inspect Sejer at the scene of a brutal murder in a stark, strange town. Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief susp[...]

There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's movements on even a month-by-month basis, or ab[...]

"...carefully researched and clearly written...Goodwin makes a major step in redefining the enterprise of studying language use in context and acress contexts." --American Ethnologist[...]

The follow-up to the author's highly successful The Things He Carried, this book takes the post-resurrection sayings of Jesus as starting-points and uses the same reflection format. The meaning and significance of the resurrection how it was first communicated and how it is communicated to us today,[...]

This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a comprehensive historical review of Chinese ceramics covering newly excavated discoveries from the Paleolithic era thousands of years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Throughout China's history there has been an ongoing practice of invention and inn[...]

A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down.Alice HoffmanIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has[...]

If Only He Knew is a how-to book for men that seeks to clarify distinctions between the sexes with a view toward building a stronger marital relationship with this understanding.[...]

What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along fo[...]