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Ghost Fire

by Wilbur Smith

Published: 2019-09-03

Hardcover: 432 pages

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  The brand new Courtney Series novel.A brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith.  1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solita...

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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

by Lili Anolik

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019“I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz.” —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker“The Eve Babitz book I’ve been waiting for. What emerges isn�...

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Ciudad de mujeres / City of Girls (Spanish Edition)

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Published: 2019-10-22

Paperback: 552 pages

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La autora de Come, reza, ama vuelve con una deliciosa novela llena de aventuras, glamur y pasión por la vida sobre una joven que descubre que no hay que ser una buena chica para ser una buena persona.En el verano de 1940, Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan tan solo con una maleta y una máqu...

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Vanishing and Other Stories (P.S.)

by Deborah Willis

Published: 2010-08-17

Paperback: 288 pages

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A French teacher who collects fiancÉs; a fortune-teller who fails to predict the heartbreak of her own daughter; an aging cowboy seduced by a city girl . . . these are some of the unforgettable people who live in these pages. In Vanishing and Other Stories, secrets are both kept an...

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When Sorry Isn't Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love

by Gary Chapman, Jennifer Thomas

Published: 2013-05-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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“I said I was sorry!”Even in the best of relationships, all of us make mistakes. We do and say things we later regret and hurt the people we love most. So we need to make things right. But simply saying you’re sorry is usually not enough.In this book, #1 New York Times bestselling au...

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A Good Time to be a Girl

by Helena Morrissey

Published: 2018-02-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Five years have passed since women were exhorted to ‘Lean In’. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone ‘lean in’ to a patriarchal system that is out of date? Why not change it entirely for the good of us all?In A Good Time to be a Gi...

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Time and the Art of Living

by Prof Robert Grudin

Published: 1997-09-15

Paperback: 208 pages

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This is a book about time--about one's own journey through it and, more important, about enlarging the pleasure one takes in that journey. It's about memory of the past, hope and fear for the future, and how they color, for better and for worse, one's experience of the present. Ultimately,...

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Do You Think This Is Strange?: A Novel

by Aaron Cully Drake

Published: 2015-05-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour WritingWinner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)"Outstanding debut." ? Publisher's WeeklyFreddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he...

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The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

by Maxwell L. Anderson

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 236 pages

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How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point, can we judge art?Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct. Part personal memoir, part thinking person's g...

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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History

by Gail Collins

Published: 2019-10-15

Hardcover: 432 pages

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"Gail Collins inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist (Parade Magazine)"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the...