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El amor de mi vida
By Rosa Montero. 2011
En esta colección de ensayos publicados en el diario madrileño El País, Montero imparte su amor constante de la lectura…
y la cultura libresca. Ella ofrece una apreciación de diversas obras literarias de alrededor del mundo mediante una exploración de la historia y contexto de cada libroEl Arte de la estrategia
By Carl Von Clausewitz. 2011
Tratado por el general prusiano del siglo diecinueve y renombrado teórico militar Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), extraída de su libro…
inacabado Sobre la guerra . Describe la esencia de la táctica y la estrategiaEl libro de los cinco anillos
By Musashi Miyamoto. 2006
Tratado escrito por un duelista invicto y guerrero samurai de Japón del siglo diecisiete. Musashi expone sobre arte de la…
espada y la estrategia, describiendo la disciplina mental y física necesaria para derrotar a un adversario y hacer frente a múltiples desafíos con éxitoRaymond Carver: a writer's life
By Carol Sklenicka. 2009
Biography of short-story author Raymond Carver (1938-1988). Examines his relationships with others, including his initial editor; fellow authors; first wife,…
Maryann Burk; and second wife, poet Tess Gallagher. Discusses his struggles with alcohol and financial solvency and explores his gift for writing about ordinary people. 2009Books to die for: the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels
By John Connolly, Declan Burke. 2012
Anthology of 121 essays by noted mystery and crime writers on works in their genre that affected them most. The…
discussed novels were published between 1841 and 2008. Entries include Deon Meyer on Ed McBain, Deborah Crombie on P.D. James, and Michael Robotham on Peter Høeg. Agatha Award. 2012Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece
By Michael Gorra, Michael Edward Gorra. 2012
English professor examines the life of Henry James, focusing on the period during which the author wrote The Portrait of…
a Lady (DB 51264). Examines James's previous literary successes, his travels through Europe, and the Victorian culture in which he lived. 2012The scientific Sherlock Holmes: cracking the case with science and forensics
By James O'Brien, James F O'Brien. 2013
Chemistry professor and Sherlock Holmes scholar O'Brien analyzes the ways the fictional detective relied on forensic science to solve crimes.…
Details Holmes's use of handwriting analysis, cryptology, and--two years before police did--fingerprinting. Traces the development of these techniques and their application in actual cases. 2013Georgette Heyer
By Jennifer Kloester. 2013
Biography of Georgette Heyer (1902-1974), the author primarily known for Regency-era romances--including Devil's Cub (DB 59285) and Faro's Daughter (DB…
67512)--as well as historical novels and mysteries. Details her relationship with her parents, traveling adventures, and writing career. Includes lists of her novels and short stories. 2011American notes: Revised Edition (Penguin classics)
By Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham. 2004
Acclaimed British novelist chronicles his 1842 trip to the United States and offers observations about North American society. Includes Dickens's…
celebrated visit with Laura Bridgman at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. Introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham. 2004The end of your life book club
By Will Schwalbe. 2012
Journalist and publishing professional chronicles the conversations he had with his mother as he accompanied her on treatments for advanced…
pancreatic cancer. Discusses books such as Crossing to Safety (DB 49441), The Hobbit (DB 48978), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (DB 67759), and others. Bestseller. 2012Reflections: on the magic of writing
By Diana Wynne Jones. 2012
Collection of essays, speeches, and biographical pieces chosen by bestselling juvenile fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011). In "Freedom to…
Write" the author explores the fashion of fantasy. Foreword by Neil Gaiman. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012The life of Irène Némirovksy, 1903-1942: 1903-1942
By Euan Cameron, Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt. 2010
Biography of Irène Némirovksy, whose novel Suite Française (DB 62505) was published posthumously. Chronicles her upper-class Russian upbringing, flight to…
France during the revolution, career and family life as an émigré in Paris before the Nazi invasion, and death at Auschwitz. Originally published in French in 2007. 2010James Joyce: a new biography
By Gordon Bowker. 2012
Chronicle of the life of James Joyce (1882-1941), author of Ulysses (DB 19994) and Finnegan's Wake (DB 21424). Details his…
family history, relationships with fellow literary artists such as Samuel Beckett and William Butler Yeats, and his struggles as a writer. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2011Kurt Vonnegut: letters
By Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield. 2012
Collection of letters the author of Slaughterhouse-Five (DB 64540) and Cat's Cradle (DB 15342) wrote from the 1940s until his…
death in 2007. In correspondence to family, friends, and colleagues Vonnegut shares details of his life and observations on the world around him. 2012Challenges embraced: short stories and selected poems
By Marty Mahler. 2012
More than one hundred stories and poems by the creator of the Mahler folding cane, who was blinded in an…
accident at age twenty-six. In "Amicitia" Mahler reminisces about a neighborhood hangout of his youth in the Bronx. "A Luncheon Engagement" recounts a midday rendezvous with his sweetheart. 2012Winter journal
By Paul Auster. 2012
Sixty-three-year-old author's meditation on life and death. Ponders his 1950s New Jersey childhood; his family, including his wife of thirty…
years; his parents and their passing; all the places he has lived; and his eventual demise. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012Biography of E.B. White (1899-1985), who wrote that he "felt a kinship for animals that he never felt for people"…
and penned the 1952 children's novel featuring a spider. Discusses White's New Yorker magazine days, marriage to editor Katharine Angell, and Maine farm that inspired Charlotte's Web (DB 46839). 2011The best science writing online 2012
By Jennifer Ouellette, Bora Zivkovic. 2012
Collection of fifty-one essays on science topics originally published on the Internet. In "A View to a Kill in the…
Morning" Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook (DB 72307), discusses carbon dioxide poisoning. PZ Myers explains scientific inquiry to a child in "Dear Emma B." 2012Joseph Anton: a memoir
By Salman Rushdie. 2012
While under police protection for the "fatwa" issued for the The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie was forced to choose a…
new name. Using the third-person perspective of his pseudonym, Joseph Anton, Rushdie chronicles his life, focusing the decades following Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 death threat. Bestseller. 2012Compilation of fifteen previously published pieces by the author of Slam (DB 66402) and Juliet, Naked (DB 69792). Each essay…
delves into Hornby's thoughts on and reactions to the books he has bought and read during a specific month. Covers May 2010-December 2011. 2012