In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now
I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes
one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales ...
The bestselling 75th Anniversary edition of the Joy of Cooking—the book Julia Child called “a
fundamental resource for any American cook”—restores the voice of the original authors and many of the most beloved recipes from past editions and includes quick, ...
From thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, here is the startling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Caselli
and Torre trilogy in which two damaged but deductively brilliant detectives must sort out what is real and what is imagined.Reeling from a deadly bombing ...
Vernon Watts may have been beloved by the millions of faithful viewers of the long-running
soap opera Jubilee Terrace but his fellow cast members knew him for what he was an egotistical former music-hall performer whose untimely death in ...
Ex-biology teacher turned bridge professional Cassandra Swann makes another bid to solve a baffling case--the
death of an Indian doctor who was one of her bridge pupils--while simultaneously trying to unravel the mystery of her own father's death during a ...
Helen Thomas, who covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty
years, teams up with veteran journalist Craig Crawford to provide a witty, history-rich examination of what it takes to be a good president and lead ...
Fresh from his recent acclaim as a Good Morning America Bookclub choice, Philip R. Craig
casts his observant eye on the fine line between tragedy and comedy on Martha's Vineyard.Just look at the Vineyard's criminal du jour, the Silencer. Loved ...