1663 results for '"Willem van Schendel'

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water...

A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee dramaIn the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLocus Awards FinalistONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York magazine, Time, Kirkus, Literary Hub, GoodreadsAbsolution...

This lush and suspenseful Good Morning America Book Club pick “will have you glued to every page” (HuffPost) as it follows a woman to Nigeria to uncover what happened to her missing estranged...

"Sullivan has done what every aspiring true crime writer hopes to do: He has crossed the line from titillation into cultural history."--Los Angeles Times The shocking story of Joe Hunt and the...

A good deal of discussion of homosexuality, male and female.--P. Thorslev.

A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as...

This volume collects thirteen papers by one of the leading philosophers of his generation, who died prematurely in 1980. The majority deal with the philosophy of language, informed by a lively sense...

DELUXE EDITION—the hardcover edition of The Red Winter features beautiful red sprayed edges!A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and...

Hundreds of years before the Illum ruled supreme, humanity risked everything to rebuild after a devastating war in this explosive dystopian romance and prequel to Conform.Twenty-three-year-old Sasha...

A New York Times bestseller! An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J...

A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light is the story of Pavel, once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker,...

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award.The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town...

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of...