Toward the end of the Civil War, a small group of surviving soldiers, most of them from Brooklyn, take part in a battle in which their sergeant (and friend) is killed. In the despair and chaos that follows, the men are challenged to a series of baseball games by enemy troops from Alabama. The games, played in the midst of savage fighting, become ...
Steven Armour, fighting off a mid-life crisis, joins a group of Civil War reenactors, and his life suddenly turns around. A haunting narrative of a man caught between his own life and a life he might have lived, "Meet John Trow" will take its place as a classic novel of history.
From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a ...
"Heart" traces the arc from heartbreak to wholeness with powerfully insightful selections drawn from such masters as Marcel Proust, Thomas Hardy, Vladimir Nabokov, Colette, and Flaubert, as well as contemporary luminaries Anne Tyler, Alice Munro, and Alain de Botton.
From medicine to miracles and from the cerebral to the spiritual, "Cure" offers empowering stories of illness and healing by our finest writers: Dr. Jerome Groopman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Robert McCrum, Bernie Siegel, Norman Cousins, and others.
For anyone who wants information and attitude in one savvy volume, this witty cinematic companion is organized by more than 150 themes that make selecting--or just reading about--a film an event in itself. All the offbeat, eclectic information other movie guides wouldn't even think of telling you is here in the sharpest, most provocative guide yet.
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