The Best American Travel Writing 2011
10 best books like The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (Sloane Crosley): A Fortunate Life, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Because You Are Mine, How to Read the Air, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, The Best American Essays 2006, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, Letting Go, When I'm with You
| Author | Albert B. Facey |
| ISBN | 0140081674 |
This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with simple honesty, compassion and courage. A parentless boy who started work at eight on the rough West Australian frontier, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316925284 |
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...
| Author | Beth Kery |
| ISBN | 0425266451 |
NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beth Kery presents Because You Are Mine, an exciting tale of erotic obsession.
When they met, the instant attraction was unmistakable…a purely, exquisitely physical charge. Succumbing to their desires is the easy part. But when passion...
| Author | Dinaw Mengestu |
| ISBN | 1594487707 |
A heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.
Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to...
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
| Author | Max Hastings |
| ISBN | 0062405667 |
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...
| Author | Lauren Slater |
| ISBN | 0618705295 |
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 0618722319 |
"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition."...
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0547350635 |
The Best American Series®
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
Josslyn found perfection once, and she knows she’ll never find it again. Now widowed, she seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn’t give her. Dominance. Lonely and searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she’s...
| Author | Beth Kery |
| ISBN | 0425269353 |
Out-of-control party girl and wealthy socialite Elise Martin has come to Chicago to prove to herself and the rest of the world that her life is truly worthwhile. But she never dreamed she’d find herself at the erotic mercy of the dynamic and wealthy Lucien Lenault, her girlhood crush, an irresistible...
| Author | Lauren Jameson |
| ISBN | 0451466632 |
Two people learn what it really means to give up control in the sizzling new novel from the author of Blush and Surrender to Temptation.…
When business mogul Elijah Masterson travels to the Mexican coast for his chain of luxury resorts, he purchases an emerald green glass sculpture for one...
