In The Burglar’s Christmas, William, caught mid-burglary, must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Willa Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in... Zobraziť viac
What’s it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts “take out the trash” on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit... Zobraziť viac
The Horse Lover is H. Alan Day’s personal history of the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Zobraziť viac
War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A.... Zobraziť viac
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin-such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel A teenage girl goes missing. When Hal, an intellectually disabled farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight, Alma... Zobraziť viac
This updated edition of a month-long backcountry trip on the John Muir Trail is part memoir, part nature writing, and part travelogue. Zobraziť viac
The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball’s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players. Zobraziť viac
A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and were attacked by Indians who killed most of the... Zobraziť viac
In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media and in popular... Zobraziť viac
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large... Zobraziť viac
Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters. Zobraziť viac
The late 1990s and early aughts were a time of hope―for democracy and free press. The Soviet Union had failed, leaving behind a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad “Wind of Change” became a rallying cry... Zobraziť viac
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy, France. Zobraziť viac
The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain ... Zobraziť viac
Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin—such is the... Zobraziť viac
Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the fantasy and functionality they perceive in geographical mapmaking. This field of "map art" has moved into... Zobraziť viac
The late 1990s and early aughts were a time of hope―for democracy and free press. The Soviet Union had failed, leaving behind a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad “Wind of Change” became a rallying cry... Zobraziť viac
The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women... Zobraziť viac
By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest HotelWritten as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna-its seeming permanence, its... Zobraziť viac
