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  • Writing as a Way of Life

    A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion

    by Brian Morton ...
    In Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipment they'll need to remain committed to their craft over the long haul. Drawing on a rich and varied career as a writer and teacher, Morton gives writers at every level of experience a masterclass in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Florence Gordon

    by Brian Morton ...
    A "hilarious and addictive" novel about a grandmother who just wants to be left alone, from the author of Starting Out in the Evening ( San Francisco Chronicle).Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle , Salon, and The Millions, and a Best Fiction Book of the Year by the Christian Science Monitor ·Finalist for the Kirkus Prize ·Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cant ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starting Out in the Evening

    by Brian Morton ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A friendship evolves between an aging author and a young grad student in a novel by the acclaimed author of Florence Gordon.A PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee and one of Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of the YearLeonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakable You

    A Novel

    by Brian Morton ...
    "A literary theft, a death and the sparking of desire make for a tumultuous year in the lives of four New Yorkers . . . [a] polished, affecting novel." — PeopleAdam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime—but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. His former wife, Eleanor, is unhappily playing the role of the overweight, discarded ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Window Across the River

    A Novel

    by Brian Morton ...
    A writer is caught between her calling and the man she loves in this "joyous, funny and bittersweet" novel ( Newsday).Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet when Nora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she's spoken a word. Isaac, a photographer, is relinquishing his artistic career, while Nora, a writer, is seeking to rededicate herself to hers.Fueled by ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Way to Learn Spanish Fast: a guide to Spanish learning

    by Brian Morton ...
    Learn Spanish FAST! Finally, a book that cuts through the BS and delivers a step-by-step guide for learning Spanish. Whether addressing the importance of learning Spanish, the difficulties of learning Spanish, or the fastest possible way to learn Spanish, this book delivers everything that you need to know. This is a high-speed no-nonsense approach to getting the job done and learning Spanish in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prince

    A Thief in the Temple

    by Brian Morton ...
    Prince Rogers Nelson released his first album in 1978. In the almost 40 years that followed he became a superstar, a recluse, an inspiration, an enigma, a slave and a symbol. He was a master of reinvention, but the one constant in his astonishing career was his genius: as a singer, a songwriter, a performer and musician. He sold more than 100 million albums, won Grammys and an Oscar. His ability ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Tasha

    A Son's Memoir

    by Brian Morton ...
    A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End of Your Life Book Club, acclaimed novelist Brian Morton delivers a “superb” (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air), darkly funny memoir of his mother’s vibrant life and the many ways in which their tight, tumultuous relationship was refashioned in her twilight years.Tasha Morton is a force of ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    by Brian Morton, Richard Cook ...
    The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Woodrow Wilson

    USA

    by Brian Morton ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). It is September 1919 - a meeting hall in a small mid-Western city. A thin man is speaking to a sceptical audience about peace. He has already met the city fathers and has been warned that 'out here' what happens in Europe means very little. Even the late war scarcely impinged on the place, though it had been recognised that it hadn't been altogether good for trade and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shostakovich

    by Brian Morton ...
    Series series Life & Times
    A biography of popular twentieth-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.Internationally esteemed, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975.Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony at the age of nineteen, then he soon embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico

    by Joseph C. Britton, Brian Morton ...
    To the casual visitor, the Gulf of Mexico shores offer mainly sun, sand, and sea. Even the standard field guides, focused on one group of animals or plants, barely hint at the wealth and diversity of habitats and species along Gulf shores. Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico, using a “whole habitat” approach, breaks new ground in describing all the conspicuous vascular plants, algae, birds, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD