Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people—much of it previously unavailable.A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (188...

Christmas comes at us from many angles and experiences. Some Christmases may be fun and crazy, while others more serious and reflective. Christmas Briefs is a collection of holiday stories, some touching and some humorous, that will surely get readers in the mood for the holiday season.This book is a compilation of stories written over many years for the entertainment of family and friends. The inspiration for the stories comes from actual events, imagined occurrences, or ...

Sometimes people confuse themselves when it comes to discussing Relationships because for some, they think that Sex is the basis of a relationship. Sure; the simple reality is that sex is an important part of a relationship. However just because the sex may be great it doesn’t mean that the relationship will follow suit. Likewise, just because someone thinks they have a great relationship, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the sex between them is great.Let’s take a look at some of t...

Christmas comes at us from many angles and experiences. Some Christmases may be fun and crazy, while others more serious and reflective. Christmas Briefs is a collection of holiday stories, some touching and some humorous, that will surely get readers in the mood for the holiday season.This book is a compilation of stories written over many years for the entertainment of family and friends. The inspiration for the stories comes from actual events, imagined occurrences, or ...

For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke’s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud’s private salon.In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud’s stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney...

Brought to you by Penguin.**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dra...

Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold ...

From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly).Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in aMennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's l...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR‘The year’s must read novel’ The Times‘One of the most important books you’ll pick up this decade’ Harper’s Bazaar‘An outstanding book that could be this year’s A Little Life’ Guardian‘You think you’re invincible. You think you won’t ever miss. We need to put the fear on y...

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley's marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved...

Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians betwee...

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse,...