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The White House Mess

by Christopher Buckley

An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self-serving...

Beard On Bread

by James Beard

Since the early 1970s, more than 250,000 bread lovers have relied on Beard on Bread to show them exactly how to make the most out-of-this-world breads imaginable. Now, this classic collection of 100 scrumptuous...

On Grief and Dying: Understanding the Soul's Journey

by Diane Stein

Drawing from the wisdom of various sources—the contemporary Goddess movement, powerful psychic techniques, and the ancient traditions of Buddhism and Greek mythology—healer and writer Diane Stein leads the...

The Friends of Freeland

by Brad Leithauser

In this roomy, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island-country, Freeland, during a crucial election year.

Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere...

Jerusalem: The Biography

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King...

You Need a Leader--Now What?: How to Choose the Best Person for Your Organization

by James M. Citrin & Julie Daum

 Solving the Leadership Jigsaw Puzzle

You have a key leadership job to fill. You want the very best person.

What exactly does this really mean?

How often have you seen someone with great credentials...

The Knitter's Book of Socks: The Yarn Lover's Ultimate Guide to Creating Socks That Fit Well, Feel Great, and Last a Lifetime

by Clara Parkes

A sock is a work of wonder. No other knitted garment has as many structural demands or endures as much wear and tear. The humble sock must defy gravity, suffer the confines of our shoes, and endure being trampled...

Dad, If You Only Knew...: Eight Things Teens Want to Tell Their Fathers (but Don't)

by Josh Weidmann & James Weidmann

Listen Up, Dads! Your Teen Is Talking to You!

As exasperating as parenting can be during these volatile years, your teen is depending on you for steady faithfulness, love, and guidance. And because teens often...

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

by Patricia C. Mckissack & Jerry Pinkney

It's Christmas and Nella is beside herself with excitement! She and her sisters have been given a real gift—a beautiful Baby Betty doll. But it's hard to share something you've waited your whole seven-year-old...

Ophelia's Mom: Loving and Letting Go of Your Adolescent Daughter

by Nina Shandler

MOTHERS TALK BACK!

In 1999 Ophelia Speaks, Sara Shandler’s collection of writings by and about adolescent girls, became a bestseller. Two years later, Nina Shandler, Ed.D., psychologist by profession and Sara’s...

Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History

by Bryn Barnard

Did the Black Death destroy the feudal system? Did cholera pave the way for modern Manhattan? Did yellow fever help end the slave trade? Remarkably, the answer to all of these questions is yes. Time and again,...

The Last Suppers

by Diane Mott Davidson

It should be the happiest day of Goldy the  caterer's life. After years of putting the disaster of  her first marriage behind her, she has finally  found the courage to love again. Soon she'll be  walking...

Seek My Face: A Novel

by John Updike

John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course...

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne, Jordan Stump & Caleb Carr

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece....

Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

by Heike B. Gortemaker & Damion Searls

In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of...

Lidia's Italy in America

by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali

After taking us on journeys into her own kitchen and into kitchens across Italy, Lidia Bastianich now invites us on a road trip into the heart of Italian American cooking today. Traveling around the United States,...

The Journals of Spalding Gray

by Spalding Gray & Nell Casey

Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as...

Ed King

by David Guterson

A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for our own era.

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Nanjing Requiem: A Novel

by Ha Jin

The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.

In 1937, with the...

Classic Sourdoughs, Revised: A Home Baker's Handbook

by Ed Wood & Jean Wood

Sourdough: The Gold Standard of Bread

More and more home bakers are replacing mass-produced breads and commercial yeasts in favor of artisan breads made with wild cultures and natural fermentation. Whether...