107 results for '"GARDNER"'

“A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics…Great reading for the intellectually curious,” (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid—a dazzling new book that turns...

Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER! "Grounded and relatable." --Whitney Gardner, creator of Fake Blood "Frank and honest portrayal of divorce, losing friends, and growing up" --Rex Ogle, co-creator of Four Eyes...

"Fink's a better guide than Dante had through our hells and heavens." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and Lit In a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink...

"So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and...

“Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa GardnerFour women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for...

"In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She...

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. “Sandford fans...

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” —Charles Finch, The New York Times Book ReviewFor decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for The New...

“Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He’s a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. ...

The story of photographer Edward Steichen's deep connections to the natural world, from how it influenced his artistic practice to his award-winning garden In a 1937 article titled "Millions of...

How online learning could help control the exploding cost of higher educationTwo of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of...

Praise for Aracelis Girmay: "[Girmay's] every loss--she calls them estrangements--is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." --O, The Oprah...

An instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily,...

"Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!" Scientific American Many people take math in...

Edgar Award Nominee for Best First NovelNamed a New York Times Best Thriller of 2021"I devoured this riveting book through a day of travel...My desire to rush to the end clashed with my desire to...

Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A legal thriller that’s comparable to classics such as Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent . . . tragic and shocking.”—Associated PressNOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED ORIGINAL...

Finalist for the Man Booker Award Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction. One of theNew York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017;...

An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and...