Branch condenses his three-volume chronicle on race and democracy to its pivotal scenes, taking listeners on a journey into a political revolution that would change the face of America.
20th century
- Author:Branch, TaylorSummary:
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch...
- Author:Slezkine, YuriSummary:
Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this book...
- Author:Robson, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory,...
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
- Author:Sweany, BrianSummary:
Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned--Hank doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular...
- Author:Neruda, PabloSummary:
This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history's greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world's leading Pablo...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
"The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the...
- Author:Hautzig, Esther RudominSummary:
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...
- Author:Mori, KyokoSummary:
In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There - looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips...
- Author:Watson, SheilaSummary:
In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that...
- Author:Gibson, IanSummary:
- Author:Kern, StephenSummary:
- Author:Min, AncheeSummary:
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing...
- Author:Moore, MarianneSummary:
- Author:Walker, AliceSummary:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
- Author:FALCONER, ColinSummary:
When a woman is found strangled on a torture rack in the basement of her fashionable Highgate home, DI Madeleine Fox's squad are called in to investigate the murder.
- Author:Brand, DionneSummary:
A startlingly original work about the act of writing itself from Griffin Poetry Prize--winner Dionne Brand. An essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today, Dionne Brand returns with a work that...