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A collection of three medieval English poems translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, containing romance, tragedy, love, sex, and honor, with...

A collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was preparing to deliver at the time of his death, setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in...

A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married...

Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.Author: Ruth KassingerPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: June 09, 2020Number...

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett--an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden...

Absorbing . . . Another great series. --San Jose Mercury News "Clever, immensely likeable." --Wall Street Journal "Excellent . . . Evoking both the St. Mary Mead of Agatha Christie and the theater...

From the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting novel of suspense in which a single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches a chain of menacing encounters...

If you're looking for a page-turner with some bite, this one's for you. --theSkimm "If your summer 2023 calendar is booked with weddings, bridal showers, and bachelorettes, you'll appreciate this...

The universe is not nearly as random as it appears in this fun, pulpy early work from the award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.Author: Philip K. DickPublisher: Mariner...

English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.Author: . SophoclesPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication...

From acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War told through a dozen unforgettable characters: a tale of idealism, suffering, and a tragically doomed...

Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? Speaking American offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular--who says what, and...

Short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for 2015 "A deeply attuned portrait of the human mind . . . An unsettling literary surprise of the best...

The Grammy Award-winning opera star describes her childhood in the segregated South, the community values and role models that shaped her ambitions, her meteoric rise at the Berlin Opera and the...

A powerful way to master every performance in your career and life, from presentations and sales pitches to interviews and tough conversations, drawing on the methods the author applied as a working...

Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy...

Strokes Of Genius: Federer, Nadal, And The Greatest Match Ever PlayedAuthor: L. Jon WertheimPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: Jun 01, 2010Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding And The Meaning Of ThingsAuthor: Randy O. Frost, Gail SteketeePublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: Jan 04, 2011Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and]...

A noted long-distance swimmer with a love for cold water describes her record-breaking English Channel crossing, her 1987 swim across the Bering Strait, and exploits in the Straits of Magellan, Lake...

A repackage of Ann Patchett's novel Taft, about a middle-aged black man who runs a blues club in Memphis.Author: Ann PatchettPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: May 09, 2023Number of Pages: 288...

This book is an indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in the understanding of pregnancy and birth. For decades, Susan Fisher, PhD., and her team at the University of California, San...

A fierce debut collection from NEA and Stegner fellow Edgar Kunz--spare and intimate narrative poems that sprawl between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly as they struggle to...

For anyone who has ever been inspired by a TED talk, this is an insider s guide to creating talks that are unforgettable."Author: Chris AndersonPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: April 04,...

Read this. Right now. --Brandon Taylor "Molly Dektar can write like hell. [The Absolutes] is simply ravishing." --Melissa Febos For fans of Emma Cline and Garth Greenwell, an arresting, seductive...

During the atomic, earth-shaking first 120 days of Harry Truman's unlikely presidency, an unprepared, small-town man had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable...

George Orwell's observations on the appalling living conditions of the unemployed of northern England in 1937, includes evaluations of middle class prejudice and apathy, and a criticism of...

On the economics of abundanceAuthor: John Kenneth GalbraithPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: Aug 11, 2023Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: American Heritage Dictionary, Paul Hellweg, Susannah Lebaron, Joyce LebaronPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: Jul 17, 2018Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

MacLean reckons with his life after amnesia after taking a commonly prescribed malarial medication while in India in 2002.Author: David Stuart MacLeanPublisher: Mariner BooksPublication Date: Mar 10,...