Broadway imprint: 811 books
by Jill Kargman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
A hilarious and deliciously scathing send-up of motherhood as practiced in the upper echelons of Manhattan society, from the coauthor of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing.
The mothers on Manhattan’s chic Upper East Side are highly educated, extremely wealthy, and very competitive....
Shift
The Guided Trip Premium Edition eBook
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
**Includes five never-before-seen bonus chapters, plus detailed authors’ notes revealing the stories behind Shift’s most fascinating people, places, and events
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A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise of dark forces in world government. Heroes...
Saving the Race
Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it first appeared in print in...
Girl in a Blue Dress
A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
This dazzling debut novel brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens--the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens--to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo” Gibson, a woman who is doomed to live in the shadow of her husband, Alfred, the most celebrated author in the Victorian world.
Girl in a Blue Dress...
All We Know of Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
Jo Shepherd grew up on a farm in the Pacific Northwest under the loving care of her grandfather, Frank. After spending months nursing him through his final painful illness, Jo receives a vision of the Virgin Mary, who sends her to Italy to live out her dream of becoming an artist. In doing so, Jo...
Invisible Eden
A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2003
A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal, still-unsolved...
7,000 Clams
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and finds something that catches his eye. What at first...
Women of the Pleasure Quarters
The Secret History of the Geisha
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
From critically acclaimed author and Japanese scholar Lesley Downer, an enchanting portrait of the mysterious world of the geisha.
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary...
Extravagance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.
The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it...
Dating Is Murder
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Wollie Shelley, the plucky amateur sleuth Kirkus Reviews called “funny, brave, smart, and altogether the fetchingest crime heroine since the early Stephanie Plum,” returns to face suspect lovers and unlovable suspects in this hilarious sequel to Dating Dead Men.
Wollie Shelley is a greeting...
by Harley Jane Kozak
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
From Agatha Award winning author, Wollie Shelley—the endearing, idiosyncratic heroine of Dating Dead Men and Dating Is Murder—returns in a funny murder mystery set in the world of television soaps.
When David Zetrakis, the producer of a popular soap opera, is found shot to death the day...
On Rue Tatin
Living and Cooking in a French Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what
began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne École de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine and culture, culminating in permanent residency...
The Whole Fromage
Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An Amazon 2013 Best of the Year Pick
The French, sans doute,love their fromages. And there’s much to love: hundreds of gloriously pungent varieties—crumbly, creamy, buttery, even shot through with bottle-green mold. So many varieties, in fact, that the aspiring gourmand may wonder: How...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense....