Problems with People
10 best books like Problems with People (David Guterson): CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Everything Inside, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Dream Work, Knots: Stories, This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories, Twelve Moons, My Dearest Father, The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen, The Maytrees
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0099595818 |
Have you ever heard a politically incorrect joke and laughed, and then felt guilty, but then laughed again?
Have you ever driven by a car wreck and slowed down to see the emergency response vehicles, and the vehicle made to look like a damaged accordion?
Have you ever watched a reality...
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0525521275 |
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0399563245 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0871130696 |
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant...
| Author | Gunnhild Øyehaug |
| ISBN | 0374181675 |
De Noorse Gunnhild Øyehaug is in eigen land al jaren een belangrijke literaire stem, maar breekt nu ook internationaal door. In haar lichtvoetige en precieze stijl schetst ze kwetsbare personages, die verstrikt raken in hun eigen tekortkomingen. Zo is er de vrouw die op de vooravond van haar negentigste...
| Author | Johanna Skibsrud |
| ISBN | 0393073750 |
In the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Johanna Skibsrud’s new book, nine loosely connected and hypnotic stories introduce an unforgettable cast of characters. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that the man is someone...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0316650005 |
In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible kingdoms of nature and human relationships, and man's profound, persistent desire for a joyous union with them. these vibrant, magical poems pulse with...
| Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| ISBN | 0141397624 |
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'
A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little...
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
| Author | Brian Cox |
| ISBN | 1846144329 |
In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible;and fascinating to everyone.
The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0061239534 |
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0395850851 |
The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time....
