Crown imprint: 1774 books

by Barry Reed
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

From Barry Reed, New York Times best-selling author of The Choice, The Indictment, and The Verdict, comes a suspenseful psychological thriller and courtroom drama involving medical malpractice and sexual intrigue. At seventeen, Donna DiTullio was a highly ranked tennis player with world-class...

Passing for Thin

Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self

by Frances Kuffel
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of Passing for Thin, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim. He strides past her without a glimmer of recognition because she barely resembles the woman he is expecting...

The Self-Destruction Handbook

8 Simple Steps to an Unhealthier You

by Adam Wasson, Jessica Stamen
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS Let’s face it, there are thousands of books out there to help you avoid self-destructive behavior—but what fun is that? Welcome to the first book designed to help you not help yourself. Here you’ll find unsound advice on everything from engineering a revenge affair...

Objects of Our Desire

Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us

by Salman Akhtar
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

What makes something sexy? Why are some things regarded as sacred and others profane? Why do mourners face such difficulty in parting with their beloved’s possessions? Why do we often feel distraught when we lose something, even when the object has little real value? We spend our lives in...

Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life

Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child

by Faulkner Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

When Salon.com published Faulkner Fox’s article on motherhood, “What I Learned from Losing My Mind,” the response was so overwhelming that Salon reran the piece twice. The experience made Faulkner realize that she was not alone—that the country is full of women who are anxious and conflicted...
by Allison Winn Scotch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

When Tilly's seemingly perfect life starts changing around her, she must decide which is the life she wants-- the one she's carefully tended for decades or the one she never considered possible? Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the life she always dreamed of married to her high...
by Amanda Elyot
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005

In this lush, compelling novel of passion and loss, Helen of Troy, a true survivor, tells the truth about her life, her lovers, and the Trojan War. This is the memoir that she has written—her legendary beauty still undimmed by age. Gossips began whispering about Princess Helen from the moment...
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

As a little girl climbs off a school bus on the Upper East Side of New York, a man named Trent rushes from the shadows to stab her viciously, instantly becoming the city's latest pariah and setting into motion an increasingly bizarre chain of occurrences. At one end of the chain is Sybylla Muldoon,...

In Pursuit of the Green Lion

A Margaret of Ashbury Novel

by Judith Merkle Riley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010

The unforgettable Margaret of Ashbury returns in the second book of the trilogy that began with A Vision of Light. Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. She is carving out a life for herself and...
by Jeanne Ray
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

With a ringing phone, Jeanne Ray’s charming and amusing new novel gets off to a rollicking start that never lets up. Not for a minute. On the other end of the phone is Caroline’s daughter, Kay, a public defender like her father, sobbing at the improbably good news that the richest, most eligible...
by Pamela Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010

The first novel in the Alix of Wanthwaite series, by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman. Eleven-year-old Alix is the daughter of the baron of Wanthwaite, whose lands along the Scottish border are among the best in England. But when her family is killed and her lands seized, Alix is forced to...
by Rosalind Laker
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008

Enduring friendships and long-held vendettas come alive against the splendor and decadence of eighteenth-century Venice. In 1775 Venice--known to outsiders as “the brothel of Europe”--the tradition of mask-wearing has allowed adultery and debauchery to flourish. But Marietta and Elena,...
by Rosalind Miles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself . . . a woman whose story has never been told--until now. As High King and Queen, Arthur and Guenevere reign supreme across the many kingdoms...

Lady Macbeth

A Novel

by Susan Fraser King
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008

From towering crags to misted moors and formidable fortresses, Lady Macbeth transports readers to the heart of eleventh-century Scotland, painting a bold, vivid portrait of a woman much maligned by history. Lady Gruadh—Rue—is the last female descendant of Scotland’s most royal line. Married...
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