902 results for '"Luna, Francisco Vidal'

One of Pierre Michon’s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude...

The classic children's series with over 2 million copies sold.With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London, New York, and San Francisco, here this famous Czech...

“One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know.”—Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Years of Extermination I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed...

Lost on the TundraTo her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds...

Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times "Funny...odd, original, and nearly...

In Panther's Prey, the latest novel from Shamus Award winner Lachlan Smith, tragedy once again strikes near the heart for lawyer-detective Leo Maxwell. After working to free his father from prison...

““As compelling as Tan’s first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer“[An] absorbing tale of the...

An intimate exploration of an artistic friendship at the heart of the Impressionist movement Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a pioneer of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was the sole...

They were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story. In this electrifying historical novel about coming of age in tumultuous 1960s San Francisco, a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and...

Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My...

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition...

From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy...

The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose “terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged” (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle). In Save the Last Dance, Gerald Stern gives us a stunning...

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics...

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Editors' Choice and a finalist for the International Latino Book Award "Lush and...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction"...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— BuzzfeedOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US...

An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Paris, Kevin Killian in San Francisco, and E. M...

The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco, and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into...

A bewitching memoir about the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing music in the indie rock worldDean Wareham's seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted...