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A Farm Under a Lake

by Martha Bergland

Published: 1989-05-01

Hardcover: 208 pages

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As she takes May, an old woman she has cared for, to live with her daughter in Illinois, Janet recalls a summer twenty-years past when she loved two brothers but finally married one

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Felicia's Journey: A Novel

by William Trevor

Published: 1996-01-01

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unf...

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A River Sutra

by Gita Mehta

Published: 1993-05-01

Hardcover: 291 pages

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A collection of interwoven stories, written in the traditional form of Indian storytelling, explores the savagery of human love and illuminate the paradoxes of India. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Elizabeth Carpenter

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be "unfit for fidelity." As...

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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

by Dava Sobel

Published: 2009-05-26

Kindle Edition: 384 pages

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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's...

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The Heavens

by Sandra Newman

Published: 2019-02-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium...

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The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

by Mary Kay Ash

Published: 2008-07-08

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur is back in print and updated to reflect developments in today’s business environment for the modern entrepreneur. You will find inspiration and real, proven success principles that represents the forty-five ...

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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

by Ed Morrissey Bernard Goldberg

Published: 2001-02-25

Kindle Edition: 232 pages

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In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award?winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: objective, disi...

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Leadership

by Rudolph W. Giuliani

Published: 2002-10-15

Hardcover: 407 pages

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Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and...

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Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All (Wall Street Journal Book)

by Monica Langley

Published: 2004-05-03

Paperback: 480 pages

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He is one of the world's most accomplished figures of modern finance. As chairman and chief executive officer of Citigroup, Sanford "Sandy" Weill has become an American legend, a banking visionary whose innovativeness, opportunism, and even fear drove him from the lowliest jobs on Wall Str...