Free Press: 1051 books
The Madonnas of Echo Park
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.
With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer, The Madonnas of Echo Park takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to...
Long Drive Home
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In this New York Times bestselling psychological thriller, “a gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience, and the responsibilities of parenthood” (People), a happily married man makes a split-second decision that sends his life into a devastating tailspin.
In his...
by Leslie Jamison
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.
As a young woman, Tilly...
All Things Shining
Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe, God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of...
Redemption Falls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
The Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crossing a ravaged continent on a quest. Eliza is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years,...
The Stonecutter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Critics are raving about this deliciously chilling new thriller from Scandanavian crime-writing sensation Camilla Läckberg.
Named by major media outlets, such as USA TODAY, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, as a main successor to Stieg Larsson, Swedish author Läckberg is on the...
Da Vinci's Ghost
Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.
Deftly weaving together art,...
Clapton's Guitar
Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In 1994, Eric Clapton came across a Wayne Henderson guitar in a recording studio and decided on the spot that he had to have one. Rarer than Stradivarius violins, these musical works of art are built from near-extinct Brazilian Rosewood, Appalachian spruce, black ebony, and fine mother-of-pearl. With...
We Learn Nothing
Essays and Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
**“Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity’s inventive and manifold ways of failing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths...
NOT "Just Friends"
Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
One of the world’s leading experts on infidelity provides a step-by-step guide through the process of infidelity—from suspicion and revelation to healing, and provides profound, practical guidance to prevent infidelity and, if it happens, recover and heal from it.
You’re right to be cautious...
Love Smart
Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In Love Smart: Find the One You Want -- Fix the One You Got, bestselling author Dr. Phil tells people who are dissatisfied with their love lives to stop making excuses and start taking action.
You deserve a committed relationship, and it is within your control to have the one you want. First,...
Good Self, Bad Self
How to Bounce Back from a Personal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
From the real-life crisis expert who inspired ABC’s Scandal.
Everyone must learn to live with personal missteps. Whether you’ve put yourself in an awkward situation, or you find that you’ve unwittingly created a full-blown crisis, Judy Smith is here to teach you how to look within to...
The Detox Strategy
Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Regardless of where and how you live, your body is harboring dozens if not hundreds of toxins that could be sabotaging your health. Low on energy? Dealing with chronic illness? Having trouble losing weight? Toxins might be to blame. From your mattress to your toothpaste to your nonstick pans to the...
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Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It’s what you think." —Lisa Oz
Being social creatures, we yearn for connection but often fall into bad habits that interfere with our ability to have rewarding relationships. We begin to see ourselves...