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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—was a bastion of small town baseball where the professional game had been played uninterrupted since 1897. Many jobs have evaporated or gone overseas, but its good families haven’t, and one remaining jewel of Batavia is the Muckdogs’ quirky ballpark that attracts a hefty portion of the local population from June to August every year. In Homestand, acclaimed author and journalist Will Bardenwerper explores the question "What is baseball?," and uses that as a lens to explore "What is America today."

On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn, Bernice finds solace in books, summer trips to Barbados, and boarding school to escape her alcoholic father. Discovering the works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, she finally sees herself and her loved ones reflected in their stories of “messy, beautiful, joyful Black people.”

Книга посвящена 100-летию со дня рождения классика российской литературы, участника Великой Отечественной войны Бориса Львовича Васильева, автора любимых читателями произведений "А зори здесь тихие...", "В списках не значился", "Иванов катер", "Не стреляйте в белых лебедей", 'Были и небыли'. В книге Век необычайный, созданной в 2002 году, Борис Львович вспоминает свое детство, семью, военные годы, простые истории из жизни и трогательные истории любви. Без строгой хронологической последовательности, автор неспешно размышляет на социально-философские темы и о самой жизни, которую, по его словам, каждый человек выбирает сам.

Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be listened to in order or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comics pitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, and going from being a fanzine artist to infiltrating DC Comics in the 1970s. The book covers everything from working on Doctor Who and meeting Tom Baker to being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame.

Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.

Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a celebration of Discworld art and a brilliant homage to the decades-long collaboration between artist Paul Kidby and Sir Terry Pratchett that takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the great creative partnerships. It shows how the Discworld was brought to visual life—from the earliest sketches to the final magnificent masterpieces—and how Pratchett and Kidby were influenced by art and pop culture, fusing them into the Discworld universe.

Joseph Conrad, polnisch-englischer Erzähler von Weltruhm: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Die Brüder Grimm, unermüdliche Sammler deutscher Märchen: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Johann Wilhelm Wolff, unermüdlicher Sammler deutscher Märchen: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Hans Christian Andersen, dänische Märchenlegende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Gustav Schwab, der den Deutschen die Sagen der alten Griechen erzählte: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Paulo Coelho, brasilianischer Literatur-Weltstar: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother.

Ludwig Bechstein, Sammler der deutschen Volksmärchen: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Georg Büchner, jung gestorbenes Dichtergenie und Revolutionär: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Wilhelm Hauff, jung gestorbener Autor von weltberühmten Kunstmärchen: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp.

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.

"Как и откуда приходит к человеку ощущение, что пора писать мемуары? Я на этот вопрос могу ответить с полной определенностью: когда всем надоели твои застольные байки и слитный хор друзей советует перенести их на бумагу, а не морочить нас одним и тем же...". Игорь Губерман Внимание! Фонограмма содержит нецензурную брань.

Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen’s books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn’t a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers—and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen’s work.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?