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Good Book : The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of The Bible by David Plotz
Category: Religion | Series: P. S. Ser.
Good Book is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through a book most people have never read: the Bible. Like many Jews and Christians, David Plotz had always assumed he knew what was in the Bible. He read parts of it as a child in Hebrew school, and as a teenager while attending a Christian high schoo ...Show more
Green Girl: A Novel by Kate Zambreno
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between ...Show more
Haweswater by Sarah Hall
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old northern county of Westmorland. For centuries the rural community has remained the same, the Lightburn family has been immersed in the harsh hill-farming tradition. Then a man from the city of Manchester arrives, spokesman for a vast industrial project that will d ...Show more
House Thinking - A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live by Winifred Gallagher
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
IKEA, Ethan Allen, and HGTV may have plenty to say about making a home look right, but what makes a home feel right? Is it the objects you've collected from your travels, or that armchair by the window that reminds you of your grandmother? Is it the "friendly" feeling of a classic American farmhouse, or ...Show more
IN PERFECT LIGHT by SAENZ
Category: Young Adult | Series: P. S. Ser.
From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire S enz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath.In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After An ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Category: Food & Wine | Series: P. S. Ser.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." B ...Show more
Love Medicine - Newly Revised Edition by Louise Erdrich
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine--the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich--is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
Maggie-Now - A Novel by Betty Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her l ...Show more
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates; John Ranard (Photographer)
Category: Sport | Series: P. S. Ser.
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication--an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland.For ten years, Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philipp ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more