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After two decades spent living in England, popular humorist Bill Bryson returned to the United States, his English wife and four children in tow. Much has ...

In This Instant New York Times Bestselling Account Of Violence And Espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter Ronan Farrow Exposes Serial Abus...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

Now in a third edition—the bestselling guide to writing better proposals and landing more clients.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

Step inside Michael Bell's antiquarian bookshop, stocked with rare and fine collectibles of infinite variety, from Book of Blank Maps, With Instructions, to...

After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslav...

What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the ...

twenty Years Ago Natalie Goldberg's Classic, writing Down The Bones, Broke New Ground In Its Approach To Writing As A Practice. Now, old Friend From Far Aw...

It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's ac...

The extraordinary and enduring memoir of Axel Munthe, a travel bestseller since first published in 1929, captures the spirit and feel of an eraCategories: T...

A true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Publishers Weekly When the author, an American journalist and software executive wo...

How To Travel As A Political Act -- Lessons From The Former Yugoslavia: War And Peace In Modern Times -- Europe Unites: Successes And Struggles -- Resurrect...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

(Book). Here's the most contemporary music dictionary on the market! Conveniently divided into three main sections: The Dictionary of Music Terms defines ov...

Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy with Whiskey Words & a Shovel III. His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of lov...

"An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." --Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on...

RANDOM HOUSE JAPANESE-ENGLISH ENGLISH-JAPANESE DICTIONARY RELIABLE, DETAILED, AND UP-TO-DATE * More than 50,000 entries, including the most common meaning...

Oscar-winner Peter Lamont has a global reputation as one of the film industry's leading designers. For a large part of his career he worked on 18 of the Jam...

Best of the Best. In this follow-up to her bestselling account of her love affair with Tuscany, Mayes carries forward the concerns and people of Under the ...

The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventure...

We All Know The Basics Of Punctuation. Or Do We? A Look At Most Neighborhood Signage Tells A Different Story. Through Sloppy Usage And Low Standards On The ...

It's 3 A.m. And Elizabeth Gilbert Is Sobbing On The Bathroom Floor. She's In Her Thirties, She Has A Husband, A House, They're Trying For A Baby - And She D...

From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays borne of a lifeti...

Whether chugging up the Congo on a paddle-wheel steamboat, rubbing elbows with pygmy chiefs (or wealthy colonial neighbors), being pursued through the dark...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

“[A] smartly entertaining reimagining of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… Swanson cunningly plays with readers’ heads as we hope ...

Will Storr has done some seriously bizarre and otherworldly things over the course of his career as a journalist. But even spending an entire day with Ozzy...

Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil Summer's Last Will And Testament The Terrors Of The Night, Or, A Discourse Of Apparitions The Unfortunate Tra...

From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, t...

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted ...

The author describes his year spent in Delhi, India, reflecting on the city's history and culture, including religious practices, industry, the arts, festiv...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner—in short, an exquisite rom...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collecti...

Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Un...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...

Authoritative As It Is Amusing, This Book Distills Everything Benjamin Dreyer Has Learned From The Hundreds Of Books He Has Copyedited, Including Works By E...

There's Nothing Quite Like The Special Bond That Someone Has With Their Unicorn - It's Full Of Magic And Adventure. This Book Invites Unicorn Lovers To Reco...

Students And Researchers All Write Under Pressure, And Those Pressures--most Lamentably, The Desire To Impress Your Audience Rather Than To Communicate With...

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary Travel Amazon Best Book of November (2016...

Short Autobiography About Author's Processes Of Researching, Interviewing, And Writing His Books--Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

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When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Re...

"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Alexa Junge, writer/producer, ...

From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff ...

The latest in the highly successful Journeys of a Lifetime series and the sequel to the original bestseller, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime offers in-depth s...

Dillard Describes The Working Life Of A Writer. She Probes And Exposes, Examines And Analyzes, As She Recounts What The Actual Process Of Writing Feels Like...

This inspirational book showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places–and guides modern-day travelers who wish to visit them. With elo...