Williams: 7228 books
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa's works, placed in biographical and historical context,...
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
**“An exquisitely...
Becoming Queen Victoria
The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria • A gripping account of Queen Victoria’s rise and early years in power from CNN’s official royal historian
“Kate Williams has perfected the art of historical biography. Her pacy writing is underpinned...
Black and White
The Way I See It
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The fascinating, “upfront and unapologetic” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all time—Venus and Serena Williams.
Born into poverty in Shreveport, Louisiana in the 1940s,...
White Working Class
Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America
An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white...
Tell the Machine Goodnight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**FINALIST FOR 2018 KIRKUS PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE "BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2018' BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Sci-fi in its most perfect expression…Reading it is like having a lucid dream of six years from next week, filled with people you don't know, but will." —NPR
"[Williams’s]...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
“Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time.”
--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
When you play one of Dagmar’s online games, you can’t just...
by Bunny Williams, Schafer Gil, Christian Brechneff
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Author and renowned designer Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. Her new book invites readers to explore La Colina, Williams’s lovely Caribbean retreat tucked into lush, tropical gardens by the sea. The book explores every facet of the property—from...
Ambition and Desire
The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From CNN’s official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon’s heart—and with it, an empire.
Their love was legendary, their ambition flagrant and unashamed....
Life on the Color Line
The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here
As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
ORPHANS OF DEEP SPACE . . .
They’re outlaws now. Created to serve a function now grown obsolete, haunted by the holographic ghost of their father, Ubu and Maria have lived their entire lives skating along the edge of extinction. Now they and their ship Runaway are in flight both from the...
The Stone of Farewell
Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams’ landmark epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle!
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“One of my favorite fantasy series.” —George R. R. Martin • “Groundbreaking.” —Patrick Rothfuss • “One of the great fantasy epics of all time.” —Christopher...
by George Washington Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the...
by Mardo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
During her 110-year lifetime, Maude Allen Williams went from oil lamps to a microwave oven, from the horse and buggy to an automobile. She stepped onto an airplane for the first time at age 77.
Maude was married at 19, four months pregnant, to Lee Williams. She once said her Puritan forefathers might...