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The Confectioner's Tale
A Novel of Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it is not just the art of confectionery that holds...
Murder in the City
New York, 1910-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
When night falls on New York, the shadows are everywhere and death wears many faces. How the victims leave their bodies is deeply personal, but the witnesses to their death and the factors that brought it about belong to the public world—a somber world which is encapsulated in this gruesome survey...
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The Scandal That Brought Down Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The sex scandal that toppled Dominique Strauss-Kahn gripped the world with its salacious allegations, dramatic twists, and a stunning turnabout in court. But the public saw only a fraction of what really went on behind the scenes, where justice played second fiddle to egos, political pressures, and...
The Ernesto "Che" Guevara School for Wayward Girls
A Novel of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Ripe and ruthless Beltway satire by a former Presidential speechwriter.
Peter Holmes Dickinson (of the Main Line Dickinsons), a former top speechwriter for President Tyler "Ty the Guy" Ferguson, is a charming snob, a part-time coke-head, full-time womanizer, and in big trouble.
His...
by Jodie Elliott Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
An extensive collection of intimate accounts from average citizens and celebrities alike, reflecting on John F. Kennedy's assassination for the fiftieth commemoration of the tragic event
November 22, 1963 -- any American alive that day can pinpoint exactly where they were when they heard that...
The Desperate Remedy
Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot; A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Thief. Informer. Double-dealer. Pimp. Will Shadwell may not be the most moral of men, but to gentleman spy Henry Gresham he is invaluable. During the reign of King James I a man must know his enemies to survive and Shadwell is one of Gresham's best sources.
Then Shadwell is discovered brutally...
Meeting the English
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
"Exceptional . . . Clanchy has a wincingly accurate eye for social comedy, a vivid descriptive sense, and profound understanding of her characters. This is a delectable read." --Daily Mail (UK)
In response to an advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves...
Khomeini
Life of the Ayatollah
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic Iranian ruler who took on the world, Khomeini launched an Islamic revival movement that, with the collapse of communism, quickly evolved for some...
by John Coyne
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativity. And the greatest hickory player of all time...
Effigy
Mormons. Polygamy. Taxidermy. Love.
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
"A small masterpiece . . . Exhilarating and genuinely fresh." ---National Post (Canada)
Set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah, and inspired by the real events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, Alissa York's Effigy is a haunting story of a polygamous family united...
by Robin Pilcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
It seems a long time since life was good for Liz Dewhurst. Her happy marriage to Gregor ended six months ago when she discovered he had been having an affair with another local woman for two years. But if that wasn't enough, Liz and Gregor's family businesses were also intertwined. Growing up on neighboring...
The Philosophy Gym
25 Short Adventures in Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
From Descartes to designer babies, The Philosophy Gym poses questions about some of history's most important philosophical issues, ranging in difficulty from pretty easy to very challenging. He brings new perspectives to age-old conundrums while also tackling modern-day dilemmas -- some for the first...
Bite-Size Lincoln
Wit and Wisdom from the Frontier President
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
President Lincoln's thoughts on an astounding range of subjects have not only become classic observations about the human condition in turn-of-the-century America, but also continue to amuse, teach, and inspire us today.
Like the highly successful Bite-Size Einstein and Bite-Size Twain, Bite-Size...
Bite-Size Franklin
Wit & Wisdom from a Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance --character traits which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American.
In this next installment...