Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in...
Azar NafisiAn inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a uni...
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for month...
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Farawa...
Martha SherrillAs Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know very little about-the snow country of Japan during World War II. In a mountain village, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to brea...
Special edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker's major new film of Angela's Ashes 'When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the...
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by listeners everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of s...