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Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women

by Elsa Walsh

Published: 1996-07-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Despite the large number of books devoted to women's issues in the last twenty years, Washington Post  reporter Elsa Walsh felt that the literature was missing a crucial element--the voices of women themselves. Setting out to probe the myriad layers of women's lives and to illuminate the...

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72 RAISINS: A novel about fame, delusion, and indecent exposure

by Nikki Nash

Published: 2018-07-05

Kindle Edition: 239 pages

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Scott Mullan writes jokes for a living. He is a loving husband and a devoted dad, but with a looming milestone birthday, and a career that has stalled, he is searching for something new. Something exciting. Not a Corvette.When he’s introduced to the teachings of Ben Doss, a dynamic self-...

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Save the Date: A Novel

by Mary Kay Andrews

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 464 pages

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Can this wedding be saved?Up-and-coming floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetime?one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for Savannah society nuptials. The only problem is, life seems to be conspiring against her. Cara's implacable father, "The Co...

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The Book of Names: A Novel

by Jill Gregory, Karen Tintori

Published: 2008-02-05

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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In each generation, there are thirty-six righteous souls who hold the world in fragile balance…When fifteen were killed, Mt. Vesuvius erupted.The elimination of eighteen triggered the Inquisition.Other deaths led to natural disasters across the globe—even world wars.Now that there a...

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The Clothes They Stood Up In

by Alan Bennett

Published: 2001-02-06

Hardcover: 161 pages

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The Ransomes had been burgled. "Robbed," Mrs. Ransome said. "Burgled," Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though "burgled" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove o...

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Bandbox (Harvest Book)

by Thomas Mallon

Published: 2005-01-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bastard son he never had") has just def...

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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

by Buddy Levy

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in huma...

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The Distance Home: A Novel

by Paula Saunders

Published: 2018-08-07

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contrad...

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior

by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, Barry L. Beyerstein

Published: 2009-09-28

Paperback: 352 pages

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that rea...

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Holes (Holes Series)

by Louis Sachar

Published: 2000-05-09

Paperback: 233 pages

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Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-p...