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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Category: Asian History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Common Pornography explores the fragmented world of youthful memories in a style at once spare, haunting, and uncomfortably nostalgic. Kevin Sampsell's daring and creative style of memoir is peppered with insightful (perhaps distracting) footnotes by Mike Daily and ethereal photo-colleges by Melody Ow ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities not in the i ...Show more
A Life Full of Holes by Larbi Layachi
Category: Cult Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African servant and street vendor, and legendary American novelist and essayist Paul Bowles. The po ...Show more
A Pelican At Blandings by WODEHOUSE P G
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad. There a ...Show more
A Prefect's Uncle by WODEHOUSE P G
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
One of Wodehouse's early novels set in an English public school, a school story that revolves around cricket, stolen money, and an embarrassing uncle (who happens to be younger than his nephew) who enrolls in in his school. The arrival of Farnie at Beckford College brings much excitement and scandal to ...Show more
Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund
Category: History | Series: P.S.
From the author of Ahabs Wife and Four Spirits comes her most astonishingwork yet--a portrait of a young queen called Marie Antoinette.
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund; Chris Wormell (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab. Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter N ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Culture | Series: P. S. Ser.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works by Paul Schmidt; Arthur Rimbaud
Category: Poetry | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more