
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Norbert Leo Butz
"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside …
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"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside …
The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent fruit …
Brilliant global view of science and how it matters to everyone.
Narrative stories are the soul of nonfiction. This amazing book has both an abundance of facts supported by research, and a powerfully readable narrative propelled by stories of people. You'll be amazed at the heroic measures some people have taken to save seeds and by their actions, help save us all.
Jerome Charyn: Jerzy (2017)
"Jerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto …
This is a hilarious, creepy, brilliantly written book. Reminiscent of Nabokov in its hall-of-mirrors approach to reality, the prose is rich and inventive. I found myself reading it slowly, savoring each sentence. (A habit got into while reading Nabokov, Theroux, and a few other writers who craft sentences so beautiful they are worth tasting over and over.)
This is a hilarious, creepy, brilliantly written book. Reminiscent of Nabokov in its hall-of-mirrors approach to reality, the prose is rich and inventive. I found myself reading it slowly, savoring each sentence. (A habit got into while reading Nabokov, Theroux, and a few other writers who craft sentences so beautiful they are worth tasting over and over.)
In Steven Millhauser's new novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, we watch young entrepreneur Martin Dressler like many of …
Maigret and the Yellow Dog (French: Le Chien jaune) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.