J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings, you'll get a never-before-seen look at the man, the artist, and the believer behind some of the world's most beloved stories.
Join bestselling author Mar……続きを見る
In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murderers, the ……続きを見る
Part memoir, part biography, infused with imaginative story-telling, The Road to Keringet is a compelling tale of a mother’s life and a tender exploration of a mother-daughter relationship.
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In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the ……続きを見る
著者:Deborah Davis
出版社: Turner Publishing Co.
発売日: 2010年06月04日
In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a……続きを見る
Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Winner, CNFC Readers' Choice Award for "Threshold"
In this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the ……続きを見る
Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his ge……続きを見る
著者:Seth Stevenson
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年04月06日
An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.
In this age of globalism and high-speed travel, Seth Stevenson, the……続きを見る
He was one of the most brilliant men in the world. His books inspired millions of lives. But who was he really? This book, just for kids, will look at his childhood, education, marriage and work to ……続きを見る
In 1990, with a bestselling book behind him, and spurred on by a marriage to the writer Aileen Armitage, Deric Longden took one of the most momentous decisions of his life and moved to a foreign cou……続きを見る
著者:Barbara Belford
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年09月21日
In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life……続きを見る
著者:Geoffrey Wolff
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年03月06日
With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as ……続きを見る
Taken from the first published biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this text takes a fascinating look at the life and works of the eminent English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.
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After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues……続きを見る
著者:Benita Eisler
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年01月26日
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been aff……続きを見る
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens a……続きを見る
著者:Jack Nelson
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年11月09日
From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Time……続きを見る
著者:Margot Peters
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年05月04日
The first biography of May Sarton: a brilliant revelation of the life and work of a literary figure who influenced her thousands of readers not only by her novels and poetry, but by her life and her……続きを見る
The author of the bestselling Joshua series and other popular inspirational books chronicles his own spiritual journey and describes with stunning honesty the difficult decisions he made along the w……続きを見る
著者:Tina Traster
出版社: Hen House Press, LLC
発売日: 2013年07月15日
Burb Appeal Too is a humorous collection of essays based on Tina Traster's newspaper columns about moving from the city to the suburbs. In these brief stories, Traster uses keen detail, humor and pa……続きを見る
著者:Gertrude Stein
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年11月01日
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' o……続きを見る
著者:Timothy Strode
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月05日
The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and d……続きを見る
W H Davies, born in Newport in 1871, is famous for his poem Leisure, which opens -
What is this life if, full of care
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And star……続きを見る
Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.
Originally published in the London Review of Bo……続きを見る
著者:Mary Gordon
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年10月14日
**Bringing her exceptional talent for detail, character, and scene to bear on the life of her hard-working single mother, a bestselling author gives us a deeply felt and powerfully moving book about……続きを見る
著者:Stuart Kelly
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book r……続きを見る
Poetic expression of heart felt emotions during a time of tragedy, crisis, heartbreak, and rebirth. LaFreddie B lays it all on the line as he shares his real emotions during a very dark period of hi……続きを見る
Jack Woodford, born Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, is considered by modern professional authors as the leading literary teacher of all time. His non-fiction, how-to-write books were bibles for a generation……続きを見る
著者:Matt Cohen
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2011年01月28日
Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilli……続きを見る
著者:Vasily Grossman
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War de……続きを見る