234 results for '"Gruen, Lori'

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the...

A New York Times BestsellerTo some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri dish, producing trends that end...

Get ready to hit the court in this heartfelt, sporty, graphic novel, the first in Mike Dawson's middle-grade duology about a girl who deals with her insecurities through her love of basketball.Lori...

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between...

An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin TowersBuildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into...

Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas PrizeThe...

Weigl and Hummer have assembled here the most representative writings on Dickey and his work. The essays assess Dickey's achievement, pinpoint his failures and successes, illuminate Dickey's...

A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that...

Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a...

The story of the battle that saved New Orleans, made Andrew Jackson a hero for the ages, and shaped the American public memory of the war.Whether or not the United States “won” the war of 1812, two...

A guide to balancing faith with secular commitments offers a lifetime of personal and professional reflections on the theme of faith in the age of credulity, arguing that faith requires a constant...

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  "The themes we associate with Nabokov —...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZEONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ILLUSTRATOR A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. Floriography is...

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic...

"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times "A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist The New...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • This “deeply immersive novel” (The Washington Post) from the author of the award–winning Preparation for the Next Life is an “epic coming-of-age tale...

The epic saga behind the Disney-produced Hulu Original Series The Lions of SicilyBased on the true history of the uncrowned kings of Sicily: the story of a family, restless and ambitious, shrewd and...

"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the...