Nathaniel: 1040 books

A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?,...

Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations...

NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios...

Grandfather’s Chair is a short story collection written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). To the literary student "Grandfather's Chair" presents two points deserving notice: one, the fact that the incident of Endicott's cutting the red cross from the banner of...

Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. In 1838, Hawthorne suggested to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that they collaborate...

**The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning *In the Heart of the Sea, *soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, adapted by the author for young readers. ** On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale.  Within...

Harmony Lipton isn’t like other kids. She’s shy & quiet… and a super-genius. She hides her brains because she hates standing out, but when her parents are killed and her long-lost grandfather reveals himself, she and her brother & sister embark on an amazing journey to discover the advanced...

Packaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works made available again. The series features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses...

In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Flower Fables [Louisa May Alcott] Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr.] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] The Girl of the Golden West [David Belasco] The Professor [Charlotte Brontë] The Head of the House of...

Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology, has spawned a global social movement with utopian ambitions. The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology...

What love is, why love is born, why it sometimes grows, and why it sometimes dies. Have you ever wondered how romantic love evolves? What the difference is between mature and immature love? What role sex plays in romantic love, and whether love necessarily implies sexual exclusivity? And, most...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The...

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life....

Let your imagination and the artist in you come out in a fun and fulfilling way, and paint the world with new colors.Rejuvenate your spirit with beautiful and artistic coloring pages.Unlike many other coloring books, this book has been created by a real artist who illustrates all coloring pages by...