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The Wishing Year
A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
One New Year’s Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year’s experiment in desire,...
The Wednesday Daughters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Karen Joy Fowler, Meg Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with an enthralling new novel of mothers, daughters, and the secrets and dreams passed down through generations.
It is early evening when Hope Tantry arrives at the small...
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place...
The House at Midnight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
On an icy winter weekend, seven friends celebrate New Year’s Eve at Stoneborough, a grand manor in the English countryside. They’ve been brought together by Lucas Heathfield, a young man who recently inherited the property after the tragic death of his uncle Patrick. Though still raw from the...
The Well Dog Book
The Classic Comprehensive Handbook of Dog Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Likened by Pet News to a Dr. Spock for canines, this is the one dog book owners need to ensure their pets’ health and well-being. Dr. Terri McGinnis, a practicing veterinarian with over twenty years’ experience, thoroughly covers every aspect of dog care: anatomy, daily care, diagnostic medicine,...
Resistance and Betrayal
The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
“Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of
the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France . . .
It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating.”
—Allan Massie
Not long after 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a doctor’ s house in Lyon. They represented...
The Perfect Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.
Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award.
Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr’s captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river town. A contender...
Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
In All His Glory
The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
“He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball,” wrote The New York Times of Willian S. Paley—the man who built CBS, the “Tiffany Network.” Sally Bedell Smith’s In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the...
When Hollywood Had a King
The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.
The Music Corporation of America was founded...
by Gary Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for our own age, the story of a dreamer who turned American media upside down—and suffered the consequences
Louis Rossetto had no money, no home, no job. Five years later he owned the hottest magazine in America and was poised to become an international tycoon,...
Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe
A Memoir of Life on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Throughout his childhood, Mike O’Connor’s family pretended to be normal. But Mike and his two younger sisters knew that their parents were hiding something–a secret they didn’t dare talk about. The family appeared to be no different from any of their small-town Texas neighbors–that is, until...
The Highwaymen
Warriors of the Information Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies....