From Publishers WeeklyHoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of th...
From Publishers WeeklyIdeas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire ...
A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshell The only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that...
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the stree...
From Publishers WeeklyFoulds's erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson...
A super-funny, super-crazy crime caper with five rare-breed sheep.A silver object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with ...
SUMMARY: Elizabeth Berg has published fiction and nonfiction and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She lives in Massachusetts. "From the Hardcover edition."
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde...
From Publishers WeeklyChristian Gillette's second outing in financial thrillerland finds Chris heading Manhattan-based investment firm Everest Capitol after his boss was murdered i...
From Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Leonie and The Rich Shall Inherit comes thiseventful novel of romantic intrigue, briskly plotted and wellresearched, centering on a fabulou...