From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food world’s most admired figures—an evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World Wa...
SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Vanishing Acts, " offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbre...
From Publishers WeeklyAward-winning science writer Johnson (A Fire in the Mind; Strange Beauty) calls readers away from the industrialized mega-scale of modern science (w...
From Publishers WeeklySet 12 years after A Meeting at Corvallis (2006), Stirling's latest novel of a chaotic near-future U.S., crippled when the mysterious Change rendered most te....
SUMMARY:Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day’s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York’s most renowned private e...
Why is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can't demonstrate to any one else?And why is it, after all of these years, that Teren...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Genghis Khan carved out a legacy of bloodshed and conquered kingdoms that has lasted almost eight hundred years. But while his name and deeds live on in the annal...
AGATHA CHRISTIE is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: An American Icon Under Government SurveillanceWhen Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of ...
Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transact their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man can procure whatever he wants. But for one such man, the price he ...