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  • The Suicide Index

    Putting My Father's Death in Order

    by Joan Wickersham ...
    National Book Award Finalist: "Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story." — The Boston GlobeOne winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Who was he? Why did he do it? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Inventory

    by Joan Wickersham ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionIn this witty and moving work of short fiction, “you” recall the romantic interests you had once pined for, crushed on from afar, kissed, and never forgot. Exploring the forces of attraction as well as the tender reaches of the heart, Joan Wickersham chronicles these brief episodes from a young woman’s history, from Boy 1 in the block corner of a ... Read more

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  • Mortal Enemy

    by Joan Wickersham ...
    “This thing that had felt so threatening for so long, so jarring in its ragged constancy and intermittence, so irrational, so exhausting, sounded trivial and hysterical as we listened to ourselves trying to describe it.”Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story (Knopf, 2012) and The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order (Houghton Mifflin ... Read more

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  • The News from Spain

    Seven Variations on a Love Story

    by Joan Wickersham ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it.Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what’s in someone else’s heart—or in our own. ... Read more

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    Our Boston

    Writers Celebrate the City They Love

    by Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...
    Narrated by various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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  • Ploughshares Fall 2021

    by Ladette Randolph, Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, Christie Hodgen, Yxta Maya Murray, Mona Susan Power, Will Schluter, Nick Sweeney, Joan Wickersham, Julian Zabalbeascoa ...
    The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

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    A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief ... Read more

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  • Marie-Antoinette

    The Making of a French Queen

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    This "wonderfully gripping biography" digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal).As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. ... Read more

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  • The Crying Book

    by Heather Christle ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER**The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceFacing motherhood and battling depression, a writer explores why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry in this “lyrical, moving” blend of essay, memoir, and cultural study for fans of Maggie Nelson (New York Times Book Review).****“A poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears . . . deeply felt, and ... Read more

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  • Glorious Boy

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    "An absolutely gorgeous historical novel . . . set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule . . . Just magnificent." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of YouOne of Booklist 's Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2020Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Set in India's remote ... Read more

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    A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

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    "A wonderful portrayal of a brilliant, eccentric man," this biographical memoir by an award-winning author is the untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks ( People).Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he was profiling the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published Awakenings—the account of his long-dormant patients' ... Read more

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  • Periods Gone Public

    Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity

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    The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in taboo and superstition, periods have gone mainstream. Seemingly overnight, a new, high-profile movement has emerged—one dedicated to bold activism, creative product innovation, and smart policy ... Read more

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