1706 results for '"Amy Mullin'

Walter Benjamin (1896-1940) has been called by Hannah Arendt the "greatest critic of the century." While an increasing number of Anglo-American literary critics draw upon Benjamin's writings in their...

Umami, sick of cold fish, travels the world trying different and delicious food to bring back home for the other penguins to try.Umami is tired of eating cold fish.But fish is what the penguins eat...

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates...

A celebration of diverse families plus a clever 1-10 counting element in this unabridged board book edition of One Family.Just how many things can "one" be?One box of crayons.One batch of cookies.One...

"David Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed . . . His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in...

"A masterfully woven tale of mystery, reconciliation, and familial love." –Abby Jimenez, New York Times Bestselling AuthorReaders of Olga Dies Dreaming and fans of Julia Alvarez will be captivated by...

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Samir Amin has undertaken an ambitious task: nothing less than an analysis of the process of capital accumulation on a global level. Drawing on a wide range of empirical material from Africa and the...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.  Track...

"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." —The New York Times Book ReviewLook out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp...

Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenges orthodoxies about the evolution of English family forms, and offers a bold interpretation of the...

This collection of short fiction includes The street, in which Pakistani workers in Barcelona pursue a taboo affair, and Two somen, in which a taciturn Irish set designer confronts repressed emotions...

Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel,...

An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives. We are all storytellers—we create stories to make sense of our lives. A moving collection of short,...

A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fictionAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical,...

A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017 “For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can’t get better than this book.” —R. J. Palacio, author of #1 New York Timesbestseller Wonder “Amina’s...

Praise for Amish Grace "A story our polarized country needs to hear: It is still grace that saves." BILL MOYERS, Public Affairs Television "In a world where repaying evil with evil is almost second...