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Too Much MoneyThe last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes...
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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine l'Engle, Author of a Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling. A Light So Lovely tells the story of the...
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A Tale of Love and DarknessThe International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of...
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The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in WritingIn writing, style matters. Our favorite writers often entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it. In The Sound on the Page, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda offers practical and incisive help for writers...
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Trece Sentidos = Thirteen SensesEn un deslumbrante relato de pasi n, Trece Sentidos de Victor Villase or contin a la estipulante epopeya familiar que empez con el ampliamente reconocido bestseller Lluvia de Oro. Trece Sentidos abre con las bodas de oro del ya mayor Salvador y su elegante...
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Soul's TemptationSomeone is stalking Daniel and Ayana--someone who knows their fears, knows their darkest secrets and desires. Someone who wants them dead... Marked for death, Dr. Daniel Bennett must do everything in his power to protect his family. Even if it means trusting the assassin...
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The Christmas PromiseThis holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her...
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La Casa En El Árbol de 39 Pisos / The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!Juntos, Andy y Terry viven aventuras disparatadas. Quién sabe qué anécdotas desternillantes y aventuras alocadas nos esperan? Al fin y a cabo, la vida NUNCA es aburrida en una cada en el árbol de 39 pisos! Andy y Terry viven en una casa en...
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Cortázar de la A A La ZPor qu un lbum Cort zar? Porque no pod amos esperar m s. Con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento, la Internacional Cronopia reclamaba ya con demasiada insistencia una nueva aproximaci n al escritor y al hombre. Por qu no intentar un almanaque, un...
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Mark Twain in Berlin: Newly Discovered Stories & an Account of Twain's Berlin AdventuresAssembled for the first time, this collection includes stories penned by Mark Twain about his everyday life, the beginnings of a novel about the lonely Prussian Princess Wilhelmina von Preussen, and his travels in Berlin which began in the fall of 1891. Twain, a...
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A Memoir of the Warsaw UprisingOn August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland's most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five...
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Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and DoodlesThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. A national treasure and a...
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Hemingway: A Life in PicturesA loving homage to one of America's greatest writers. In this first-ever tribute to her grandfather, Mariel opens the family album to reveal all aspects of the man. More than 350 carefully selected photographs show a childhood filled with harbingers of the future --...
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Trail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the OutdoorsTrail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the Outdoors is a collection of quotes, poetry, and passages from classic books that provide outdoor inspiration to those in the woods, on the mountain, beside the water, or at home. Featured throughout the book is a pantheon...
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford SistersAn Instant New York Times Bestseller"Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters' life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them." --Tina Brown, The New...
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A House Among the TreesFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, a richly imagined novel that begins just after the sudden death of world-renowned children's book author Mort Lear, who leaves behind a wholly unexpected will, an idyllic country house, and difficult secrets about a childhood...
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Borges at Eighty: ConversationsThe words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes -- labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death -- and always...
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BirthdayBefore you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing--and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth--a time when he...
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Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47In the looming shadow of dictatorship and imminent war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland. Together, as they spent evenings in tavernas, explored the Peloponnese, and considered the meaning of Greek life and freedom and art,...
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No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow LindberghIn 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by...
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