The Interpreter
Publisher Free Press, September 2005 Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Alice Kaplan tells a war story unlike any other-a riveting look at American’s tragically failed attempt to uphold justice in liberated France at the end of World War II As […] |
Freud’s Requiem
Publisher Riverhead/Putnam, July 2005 Freudian Matthew von Unwerth’s FREUD REQUIEM places Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, on the couch and reinterprets psychoanalysis as “a science of mourning,” while he explores the redemptive possibilities of storytelling, memory, and the creative […] |
The Good, The Bad, And Me
Publisher Harcourt Brace, May 2005 The sparkling memoir of a movie icon’s life in the footlights and on camera, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND ME tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach’s many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with […] |
Objects Of Our Desire: Exploring Our Intimate Connections to the Things Around Us
Publisher Shaye Areheart/Crown Books, August 2005 You can’t take it with you, of course, but we certainly do value and treasure our precious things while we’re here. Salman Akhtar’s beautiful book is a fascinating historical, cultural, and psychological exploration of […] |
Ten Degrees of Reckoning
Publisher Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, February 2009 In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to live their dream: to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its […] |
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
Publisher Harper Collins, November 2008 From the best selling author of The Space Between Us comes a sensitive, beautifully written memoir of Thrity Umrigar’s youth in India In this incredibly poignant memoir, Thrity Umrigar traces the arc of her Bombay […] |
A Book of Ages
An Eccentric Miscellany of Great Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100 Publisher Harmony/Crown, September 2008 Everyone keeps score, whether we admit it or not. The day we turn thirty-one, we become contemporaries with […] |
Dark Water
Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces Publisher Doubleday, October 2008 DARK WATER reminds us why Florence, with its ancient, corrupt, and dangerous beauty, remains a cultural wellspring and the home of everyone who loves beauty. On November 4, […] |
The Pulpwood Queens
The Pulpwood Queens Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing, Guide To Life Publisher Grand Central, January 2008 When licensed cosmetologist turned publisher’s rep Kathy Patrick lost her job due to industry cutbacks, she wasn’t deterred. One year later, she opened Beauty and […] |
