Broadway imprint: 811 books
The Courts of Love
The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself their equal—and in many ways their superior—but it seemed that I depended...
The Loves of Charles II
The Stuart Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
From princesses to country girls to actresses…the loves of Charles II come to life.
Ten years after Charles I was deposed and executed, his son, Charles II, regains the throne after many years in exile. Charles is determined not only to restore the monarchy but also to revive a society that...
The Captive Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
**“Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.”—**The New York Times
“Burn the murderess!”
So begins Jean Plaidy’s The Captive Queen of Scots, the epic tale of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of England. After her husband, Lord Darnley,...
by Jean Plaidy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother....
Dark Angels
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England.
Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after...
The Things That Need Doing
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
“You keep fighting, okay?” I whispered. “We’re in this together. You and me. You’re not alone. You hear me? You are not alone.”
5:38 p.m. It was the precise moment Sean Manning was born and the time each year that his mother wished him happy birthday. But just before he turned twenty-seven,...
Horseplay
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Patty got up to peer into the refrigerator. “Honey, don’t look so guilty,” she said. “Men are like horses. If they’re even-tempered and sweet, you stay on for the ride. If they buck and run around, you get off before you get hurt.” She slammed the refrigerator door. “Damn, we’re out...
Bookends
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
British sensation Jane Green delivers a sparkling tale of old friends reunited and old jealousies rekindled.
Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and—since she had her heart broken a...
A Feel for the Game
A Master's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
With two Masters Championships, nineteen career PGA victories, three NCAA Championships, and millions in earnings, Ben Crenshaw is without question one of the most successful golfers of the century. But Crenshaw's claim to fame goes beyond his individual performances. As captain of the 1999 Ryder...
Stepfamilies
Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.
There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America....
Getting Stoned with Savages
A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
From the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, the laugh-out-loud true story of his years on the islands of Vanuatu and Fiji, among cannibals, volcanoes . . . and the world’s best narcotics.
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most...
Nanny State
How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
When did we lose our right to be lazy, unhealthy, and politically incorrect?
Move over Big Brother! An insidious new group has inserted itself into American politics. They are the nannies—not the stroller-pushing set but an invasive band of do-gooders who are subtly and steadily stripping...
Renewing Your Wedding Vows
A Complete Planning Guide to Saying I Still Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Say “I do” all over again with significance and style
Whether this is your chance to have the wedding you always wanted, you’re celebrating a milestone anniversary, or you simply want to reaffirm your commitment to each other, the renewing of your vows is an important symbolic step in...
What It Means to Be a Libertarian
A Personal Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive...