H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Hardcover: Mar 2015
Paperback: Mar 2016
Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.
From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.
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.
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