"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed." So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor,...
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Auteur:Febos, MelissaSommaire:National Bestseller Named a Most Anticipated Book by: The New York Times * Buzzfeed * Time.com * OprahMag.com * The Millions * The Rumpus * LitHub * Paperback Paris * The Lily (Washington Post) * Ms. * LAMBDA Literary. A gripping set of...
- Auteur:Baker, CarlosSommaire:
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's logging business, but when she meets Dr. Christopher Clayton, Deborah realizes she has a greater interest in medicine and science than the bookkeeping she was trained in.
- Auteur:Abbey, EdwardSommaire:
When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary...
- Auteur:Henderson, DeeSommaire:
Sara's terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with a famous man, former pro football player Adam Black. Sara is hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible...
- Auteur:Thomas, R. EricSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of "funny and compulsively readable" ( Vogue ), "hilarious and incisive" ( Time ) essays about what happens after happily ever after...
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Auteur:Darcleight, DannerSommaire:Darcleight brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day-to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living inside the world's largest prison complex.
- Auteur:Land, StephanieSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends...
- Auteur:Leamer, LaurenceSommaire:
For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered PrayersEsquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see. The blowback...
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Auteur:Danticat, EdwidgeSommaire:When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with...
- Auteur:Ellis, HelenSommaire:
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women.
- Auteur:Febos, MelissaSommaire:
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the...
- Auteur:Wilson, AndrewSommaire:
During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Patricia Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal...
- Auteur:Davis, KathrynSommaire:
This memoir is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. Kathryn Davis centers the book on the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its...
- Auteur:MacDonald, Betty BardSommaire:
Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how “the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family” brightened their weathering of The Great Depression.
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Auteur:Crozier, Lorna, Lane, PatrickSommaire:With new material from Susan Cheever, Molly Jong-Fast, and Rick Whitaker. What is this craving that overpowers all else? What is it like to be addicted, and what does it take to get straight or sober? In this new and expanded edition of...
- Auteur:Vonnegut, KurtSommaire:
One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature. Now this iconic figure shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics, and life in...
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