Half A Life
by V.S. Naipaul
Hardcover: Oct 2001
Paperback: Oct 2002
"Naipaul's style is so frank it seems intimate ...behind the matter-of-fact style is a cuttingly ironic view of human relations...when Naipaul talks, we listen." Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize.
Half American
: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
by Matthew Delmont
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Jan 2024
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont.
Half Broke Horses
: A True-Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: Sep 2010
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
Half Broken Things
by Morag Joss
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: Jul 2006
A stunning, thought-provoking crime novel of chilling moral complexity. A gripping, haunting exploration of love and our need for it, of the damage done when we go long without it, and the deeds we might be driven to in its name.
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: Sep 2007
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the ...
Half the Sky
: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: Jun 2010
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
Halfway to Heaven
: My White-knuckled - and Knuckleheaded - Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
by Mark Obmascik
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: May 2010
When Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to ...
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