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Best American travel writing: 2013 (Best American series)
Par Elizabeth Gilbert, Jason Wilson. 2013
Author of Eat, Pray, Love (DB 61789) edits nineteen previously published travel essays infused with a sense of marvel and…
wonder. In "The Way I've Come" author Judy Copeland describes backpacking along the border of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. 2013Eldercare expert relates ways to forge new paths and expectations for the second stage of adulthood that begins after age…
fifty. Discusses creating goals, increasing activity level, staying healthy, having the right health insurance, transitioning from full-time work, making money last a lifetime, choosing living arrangements, and maintaining relationships. 2013My heart is boundless: writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother
Par Abba May Alcott. 2012
LaPlante compiles the letters and diaries of Abigail May Alcott (1800-1877), the mother of Louisa, the inspiration for Marmee in…
Little Women (BR 11778), and LaPlante's great aunt. Abigail's writings, organized by topic and chronology, detail her thoughts on everything from marriage and motherhood to slavery and suffrage. 2012Poems: Edited By Peter Washington
Par George Gordon Byron Byron. 1994
Selections from lyric and narrative verse composed by British romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824). Includes poems from Hebrew Melodies, Hours…
of Idleness, and Don Juan, as well as occasional pieces and The Vision of Judgment. 1994The Best American poetry, 2012: Series Editor David Lehman (The Best American Poetry series)
Par David Lehman, Mark Doty. 2012
Seventy-five poems selected by 2008 National Book Award winner Mark Doty. Features the works of Sherman Alexie, Terrance Hayes, 2012-2013…
U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, and others. In "Improvisation on Yiddish" Robert Pinsky, editor of Poems to Read (DB 55374), reflects on his family's native language. 2012Why we write: 20 acclaimed authors on how and why they do what they do
Par Meredith Maran. 2013
Twenty essays by popular authors on the reasons behind their pursuit of writing. Sue Grafton, author of A is for…
Alibi (DB 35069), ruminates on the source of "writer's block" and David Baldacci discusses his compulsion for writing. Also includes Isabel Allende, Jodi Picoult, and others. 2013Here and now: letters (2008-2011)
Par Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee. 2013
Collection of letters exchanged between J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for literature, and Paul Auster, author of Winter Journal (DB…
75501), begun in July 2008, shortly after they met. Coetzee and Auster discuss the nature of friendship, cultural taboos, and books they have read, among other topics. 2013The writer who stayed
Par William Zinsser. 2012
Collection of fifty-eight of journalist Zinsser's essays previously published on the American Scholar website. Topics include culture and arts, the…
craft of writing, the tech age, and language. In "Hats Off" Zinsser ruminates on the state of men's hats and where to store them. 2013L'étreinte fugitive
Par Daniel Adam Mendelsohn. 2009
« Dans Les Disparus, Daniel Mendelsohn partait en quête de l'histoire de sa famille ; avec L'Étreinte fugitive, il s'est…
livré à une quête infiniment plus intime. De l'écriture rhapsodique et classique qui est la sienne, il fait revivre son enfance entre sa mère, « l'institutrice », la toute-belle, et son père, « le mathématicien », celui qui répare, construit et se collette aux choses ; une enfance peuplée d'êtres, frères et soeurs, parents juifs âgés, avec, au centre, son grand-père, ce dandy mystérieux et raconteur d'histoires. C'est pendant ses années d'étudiant dans l'exotique Sud américain que le jeune homme se découvre une passion jumelée pour les langues anciennes et les beaux garçons. Dès lors, la recherche de la « grammaire de son identité », de ce que veut dire être un homme, suivra des méandres surprenants, bouleversants. Car, lorsqu'une amie lui propose d'incarner une « figure paternelle » auprès de l'enfant qu'elle porte, il accepte et se prend à s'attacher si fort à lui qu'il va, petit à petit, partager sa vie entre Chelsea, le quartier où vivent les « garçons » de New York, et la banlieue où habitent son amie et leur petit garçon. » -- 4e de couvTill I end my song: a gathering of last poems
Par Harold Bloom. 2010
Literary critic Harold Bloom compiles the final poems of one hundred poets and supplies commentary for each. His anthology proceeds…
in chronological order, beginning with Edmund Spenser, and includes Andrew Marvell, William Blake, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, and Agha Shahid Ali. 2010The Sleeper wakes: Harlem renaissance stories by women
Par Marcy Knopf-Newman. 1993
Twenty-eight stories written in the 1920s and 1930s by fourteen African American women. Most were originally published in magazines and…
chronicle the struggles of race, gender, and poverty. In the title piece, a woman passes for white until her husband's bigotry breaks her silence. Violence and strong language. 1993Le goût de la Turquie (Le petit Mercure. Le goût de--)
Par Jean-Claude Perrier. 2010
" Issue d'un Empire ottoman flamboyant et puissant, la Turquie moderne, fondée sous l'impulsion de Mustafa Kemal - surnommé Atatürk…
( Père des Turcs ) - en 1923, fascine toujours les voyageurs et questionne les politiques. Istanbul en est la ville emblématique, qui s'étend sur les deux rives du Bosphore, à cheval sur l'Europe et l'Asie. Mais il faut aussi évoquer Ankara, sa capitale, Izmir ou Brousse, visiter les temples d'Éphèse, s'arrêter à Smyrne (devenue Izmir), dans les stations balnéaires du Sud, visiter l'aride Cappadoce... La Turquie, ce pays d'antique civilisation , selon l'expression d'André Malraux, offre en effet des visages multiples. Voyage au pays des sultans, des soufis, des derviches tourneurs, des bazars, des narghilés, des pâtisseries et des mosquées, en compagnie d'Homère, Virgile, Soliman le Magnifique, Jean Racine... " -- 4e de couvA million blessings
Par Angela Benson, Marilynn Griffith, Tia McCollors. 2010
Three novellas featuring protagonists whose financial windfalls test their faith. In Showers of Blessing Andrew Gooden, a pastor and compulsive…
gambler in suburban Atlanta, wins the lottery. But Andrew continues his vice, putting his family in jeopardy--until only a miracle can save him. 2010Somewhere towards the end: A Memoir
Par Diana Athill. 2009
Diana Athill, noted eighty-nine-year-old British book editor and author of Stet (BR 13794), discusses growing old or "falling away." Describes…
past love affairs, including one that evolved into a platonic friendship as roommates. Childless and unmarried, Athill admits she has few regrets and no lessons to pass on. 2008Baby, it's cold outside: Blame It On The Blizzard Deep Freeze Melting Point
Par Jennifer Greene. 2010
Three short romances. In Jennifer Greene's "Blame It on the Blizzard," Emilie Bartlett retreats to her family's remote Alaskan lodge…
and finds love with a handsome recluse seeking shelter from the winter storm. Includes works by authors Merline Lovelace and Cindi Myers. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010Lire, c'est la vie (Collection Papiers collés)
Par Jacques Godbout. 2010
" [...] Sorte d'autobiographie d'un lecteur passionné, mais une autobiographie tournée vers le monde plutôt que vers le moi, ce…
livre raconte l'aventure d'un esprit en éveil. Livre de lecteur, donc, ce livre est aussi celui d'un écrivain ; écrit dans une prose alerte et précise, il nous fait entrer pour ainsi dire dans l'atelier d'un romancier, mais d'un romancier comme l'est l'auteur de Salut Galarneau ! et de La Concierge du Panthéon, c'est-à-dire un artiste de l'imagination pour qui la littérature, loin de naître dans la solitude et le mépris, se nourrit avant tout des bruits et des mouvements de son époque, des angoisses et des illusions qui la hantent, de ses laideurs comme de ses beautés, auxquelles il lui faut par conséquent demeurer constamment, éperdument attentif. " -- 4e de couvThe conviction of Richard Nixon: the untold story of the Frost/Nixon interviews
Par James Reston. 2008
Historian describes serving as adviser to British journalist David Frost for the 1977 televised interviews with former president Richard Nixon.…
Discusses using House Impeachment Committee evidence in Frost's interrogation guide for the Watergate portion of the broadcast, watched by forty-five million Americans. 2007Making rounds with Oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat
Par David Dosa. 2010
Geriatrician describes Oscar, a prickly cat living at a Rhode Island nursing home who senses when residents are dying and…
stays with them, providing comfort during their final hours. Details Dosa's and Oscar's interactions with the patients, many of whom have dementia, and their families, and discusses end-of-life care. Bestseller. 2010Stories, essays, and poems selected from literary magazines, journals, and small presses. In Brock Clarke's "Our Pointy Boots," Iraq war…
veterans return to the United States and honor their dead buddy. Includes works by Richard Powers and Joyce Carol Oates. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2010Words are my matter: writings about life and books, 2000-2016 with a journal of a writer's week
Par Ursula K. Le Guin. 2016
A collection of talks, essays, introductions, and book reviews from the well-known award-winning science fiction author. These pieces focus on…
investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction to explore the world through the lens of deep consideration. 2016