In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears....

She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature....

Available for the first time in audio, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the story of seven men...

At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue....

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August. The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie... Less

The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the “Henry Ford of Natural History,” by 1917 Craxton has become America’s preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world—filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles— wanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton’s newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, and part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, The Manikin is compulsively readable and beautifully written.

A collection of poetry nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award includes works for departed family and friends, love poems, history and social poems, and a series of shorter poems that the author calls "symbols." Reprint.

ISBN13: 9781556592713. ISBN10: 155659271X. by Stone. Published by Perseus Distribution. Edition: 08

'This book offers the most sweeping portrait of working-class life yet to emerge from the new labor history. It is a subtle, complex, often brilliant study, which demonstrates how far labor scholarship has moved in a generation.' --Alan Brinkley, New Republic

Free Worldwide Delivery : God: A Biography : Paperback : Vintage Books : 9780679743682 : 0679743685 : 01 Apr 1996 : What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of learning and knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to illuminate Go

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin s finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.

A foremost historian examines Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II, giving readers the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted. 75 illustrations. From the Publisher Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower s brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called America s foremost historian of the Second World War in... Less

Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in The Lives of a Cell, the acclaimed scientist examines disease and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics with his trademark wonder and wit. Reprint.

Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first transatlantic history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behavior of the ordinary Irish emigrants, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs as well as in their songs, poems and folklore. Miller shows that the exile mentality was deeply rooted in Irish history, culture and personality, and it profoundly affected both the traumatic course of modern Irish history and the Irish experience in America.

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Prize : Paperback : SIMON & SCHUSTER : 9781439110126 : 1439110123 : 29 Apr 2009 : Hailed by "The New York Times" as "a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history," Yergin's bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winner was made into an exciting eight-part miniseries that aired on PBS. 32 pages of photos.

An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation s history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton s deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison s secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton s financial plan; Franklin s... Less

This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker s Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field .--from Walker s new preface.

The winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is at once an elegant portrait of New York s elite in the 1870s and a devastatingly ironic commentary on their attitudes and customs.

Gilead is, in every sense, a sacred story and a revelation. Robinson has written one of the most skillful, tightly constructed, deeply felt novels in many years, as much a classic as Georges Bernanos' fictional Diary. Her writing warms up when she has characters to love,---Christian Century. 256 pages, softcover. Picador.

Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in The Lives of a Cell, the acclaimed scientist examines disease and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics with his trademark wonder and wit. Reprint.

Free Worldwide Delivery : A Confederacy of Dunces : Paperback : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press : 9780802130204 : 0802130208 : 21 Jan 1994 : This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter", it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

ISBN13: 9780375706417. ISBN10: 0375706410. by Ha Jin. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: 99

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Optimist's Daughter : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679728832 : 067972883X : 31 Aug 1990 : A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.

ISBN13: 9780312427733. ISBN10: 0312427735. by Jeffrey Eugenides. Published by MacMillan Higher Education. Edition: 02

ISBN13: 9780312424404. ISBN10: 031242440X. by Marilynne Robinson. Published by MacMillan Higher Education. Edition: 04

The poems in this volume were selected by the poet in 1978 from his first three books A Run of Jacks, Death of the Kapowsin Tavern, and Good Luck in Cracked Italian and from his three more recent books, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, and 31 Letters and 13 Dreams.

Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1959, The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the lively story of a 13-year-old boy s adventures on a journey across America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Beloved : Paperback : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group : 9781400033416 : 1400033411 : 01 Jan 2008 : Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader's comprehension.