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Tis_ A Memoir - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redempti... -
Tip It!_ The World According to - Maggie Griffin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. My daughter Kathy put out * her* memoir last year, which was real nice except for the con... -
Thomas Paine Reader - Thomas Paine
Product DescriptionThis major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737'1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passion... -
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
SUMMARY:THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these s... -
The metamorphosis and other sto - Franz Kafka; Jason Baker; Donna
SUMMARY: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and t... -
The essential writings of Machi - Niccolo Machiavelli; Peter Cons
FromThe synonym for political cynicism, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote much more than The Prince, for which he is (in)famous. It leads off this anthology, which both spans his range of.... -
The demolished man - Alfred Bester
SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen... -
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in ... -
The Winter House - Nicci Gerrard
When Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back into a past from which she has f... -
The Torso - Helene Tursten
EDITORIAL REVIEW: “The scenes in which Huss tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in *The Cutting Ro...