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Lisette's List
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love...
The Gastronomy of Marriage
A Memoir of Food and Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
“On our first date, Rich ordered a chocolate soufflé at the beginning of the meal, noting an asterisk on the menu warning diners of the wait involved. At the time, I imagined he did it partly to impress me, which it did, though today I know well that he’s simply the type of man who knows better...
by John Updike
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect...
The Perfect Hour
The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.
Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt...
The First Family
Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Before the notorious Five Families dominated U.S. organized crime, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello and his lethal coterie. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action, Mike Dash brings to life this little-known story, following the rise of the Mafia in...
The Russia Hand
A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge...
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is the stuff of fiction: A collection of stories, never made public, is lost in a drawer for thirty years until, miraculously, the stories are discovered and published. It is also the true story of the book you are holding in your hands.
Mary Ladd Gavell died in 1967 at the age of forty-seven,...
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism.
“A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times.”—The Washington Post
For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on...
by John Updike
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and “Talk of the Town” reports, the fruits...
Harold Fry & Queenie: Two-Book Bundle from Rachel Joyce
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
**Meet a pair of beloved characters—Harold Fry and Queenie Hennessy—in an eBook bundle that collects two linked novels from a wise and utterly irresistible storyteller.
“[Rachel Joyce] has a lovely sense of the possibilities of redemption. . . . She’s cleared space where miracles are...
Stop That Girl
Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom.Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along...
Shame
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched...
Mrs. Somebody Somebody
Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices, Winn paints a deep and permeating portrait of the...
The Book of Lost Books
An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...