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The Dead
Published: 2015-07-17
Paperback: 80 pages
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The Dead is one of the twentieth century’s most beautiful pieces of short literature. Taking his inspiration from a family gathering held every year on the Feast of the Epiphany, Joyce pens a story about a married couple attending a Christmas-season party at the house of the husband’s two elderly...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Published: 2019-01-24
Paperback: 140 pages
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent." The book is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave, and the decisions and choices she made to gain freedom for herself and her children....
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Published: 2017-04-11
Hardcover: 240 pages
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Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through t...
The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
Published: 2016-09-28
Paperback: 272 pages
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Having spent her life trying to patch up the souls of others, psychiatrist Linda Gask came to realize that being an expert in depression didn’t confer any immunity from it—she had to learn take care of herself, too. Artfully crafted and told with warmth and honesty, this is the story o...
After the Peace (Spoils of War)
Published: 2018-11-01
Hardcover: 304 pages
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How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor; and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous, as it turned out. For donor...
Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country
Published: 2018-10-09
Hardcover: 240 pages
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From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies r...
Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing
Published: 2018-10-15
Paperback: 240 pages
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After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell everything she owned and sail across the ocean with him. Sea Over...
This Could Hurt: A Novel
Published: 2018-01-09
Hardcover: 384 pages
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“Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff’s critique of corporate inanity is, it’s tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with each other, ...
Run You Down: A Novel (Rebekah Roberts Novels Book 2)
Published: 2015-06-30
Kindle Edition: 287 pages
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Aviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she w...
Funny Woman (A Midland Book)
Published: 1992-08-22
Paperback: 304 pages
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Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business?burlesque and vaudeville, drama and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld Follies), film and radio. She is most often remembere...
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