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It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America

by Christine Todd Whitman

Published: 2005-01-27

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator under George W. Bush presents a detailed and provocative critique of the Republican party's increasingly conservative and extremist views, recommending a moderate, solution-based approach to government that the author believes is more in line with...

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A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home: A Close to Home Collection

by John McPherson

Published: 2006-10-13

Paperback: 144 pages

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Is your face suffering from a lack of exercise? Readers rely on John McPherson's Close to Home cartoon to contort their facial muscles into an unstoppable grin each day. Not even Botox can stop you from smiling at this latest collection of Close to Home. How do you measure a cartoon's popu...

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The Company Car: A Novel

by C.J. Hribal

Published: 2006-05-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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An award-winning author has created his most expansive work to date–a captivating family epic, a novel that moves effortlessly from past to present on its journey to the truth of how we grow out of, away from, and into our parents.“Are we there yet?” It’s the time-honored question ...

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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast

Published: 2007-05-01

Paperback: 252 pages

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An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan--with readers' help. While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary ...

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))

by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Published: 2008-09-01

Library Binding: 467 pages

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It's January, 1946, and London is emerging from the shadow of World War II. Author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book when she gets a letter from Dawsey Adams from Guernsey, a British island that had been occupied by the Nazis. He finds her addres...

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Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album

by Teresa Jordan

Published: 1994-06

Paperback: 240 pages

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The daughter and granddaughter of Wyoming ranchers, Teresa Jordan gives us a lyrical and superbly evocative book that is at once a family chronicle and a eulogy for the land her people helped shape and in time were forced to leave. Author readings.

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The Rituals of Dinner

by Margaret Visser

Published: 1992-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual. "Read this ...

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Mary Nohl: Inside & Outside

by Barbara Manger

Published: 2009-03-22

Paperback: 134 pages

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Outsider artist, sophisticated naïf, and witch are all labels that have described Mary Nohl (1914–2001), creator of a magical and mysterious site on the shore of Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here she constructed huge concrete heads, stone-encrusted creatures, and imposing dr...

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Art as Therapy

by Alain Botton, John Armstrong

Published: 2016-10-24

Paperback: 240 pages

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Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and th...

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How to Ruin Everything: Essays

by George Watsky

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 240 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." —Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American MusicalAre you a sensible, uni...