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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

by Chrystia Freeland

Published: 2012-10-11

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not betw...

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The PMS Murder (Jaine Austen Mystery)

by Laura Levine

Published: 2007-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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On the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend--a wannabe actress named Pam--and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of ...

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Pnin

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 1989-06-18

Paperback: 208 pages

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Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is...

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The Poacher's Son

by Paul Doiron

Published: 2011-04-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive?his own fatherGame warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard drinking womaniz...

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Pobby and Dingan

by Ben Rice

Published: 2003-04-08

Paperback: 114 pages

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Pocket-47 (A Nicholas Colt Thriller)

by Jude Hardin

Published: 2011-05-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Fifteen-year-old Brittney Ryan has taken to the streets. Leitha, her older sister and legal guardian, hires private investigator Nicholas Colt to find her and bring her home. Piece of cake, Colt thinks. With Brittney's forbidden boyfriend's address in hand, he plans to make a surprise visit and put this...

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Pocketful of Names

by Joe Coomer

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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"Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent." --The Washington Post Book WorldInhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with feathers and seaw...

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The Poe Shadow

by Matthew Pearl

Published: 2006-05-23

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This title is set in Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard is accepted by all. But none of this deters Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate...

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The Poe Shadow: A Novel

by Matthew Pearl

Published: 2007-07-10

Paperback: 400 pages

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“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.”Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate wri...

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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings

by Alice Walker

Published: 2003-10-28

Hardcover: 151 pages

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In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize?winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author's signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her po...