One of a new series of full-color, magazine-style books about some of history's most fascinating characters offers readers a new and interesting perspective on "Lucy," the prehistoric times in which s
An author of The Art of Planting presents tips on keeping a garden colorful throughout the year, using as examples some famous English gardens, including Powis Castle, Highgrove House, and her own gar
Clinging to the southwest face of Annapurna, the climber cuts another handhold. Suddenly, everything goes still - then the mountain roars, shaking loose its killing load, tumbling the climber before i
Dave Delano didn't spend five years in a Florida prison idling away hard time. His five-year plan aimed to put a million-five into his own pockets.In the former Soviet Union there are a million scams.
At the center of the novel is a woman named Tig, a grandmother who chooses to leave her family for a year to join a walk across America in the spirit of her activist youth. But as she physically trave
Twelve adventurous narrations exploring the sensualness, explosiveness, and definition of desire, from all over the world, detail how lives were changed by just a glance, touch, or thought, in a bold,
The hero of Fischer's tale is a bowl that comes into the possession of a young, lovelorn London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an ur
A critically acclaimed debut novel by the former restaurant critic of the London Observer is a tour through the dark recesses of the psyche and scenes of food and drink deliciously described. Reprint.
A powerful glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, both real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the many movies and books depicting this city as a veritable hotbed o
A definitive, authorized portrait of Paul McCartney draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews and access to personal archives to chronicle the private life and successful career of one of the
Featuring the O. Henry Prize-winning story of a middle-aged woman who suffers an abrupt emotional estrangement, a collection by the author of Edisto Revisited gathers nine recent stories from Esquire,
Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeTibor Fischer's brilliant and hilarious first novel follows the fortunes and picaresque adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years
One thing we can be sure of is that jazz was invented in America.From the small sunlit barns that dotted the Louisiana countryside around the turn of the century to the booming nightspots in New York
"You scuttering little bastard! What d'you think you're doing?"Norma Snape knew damn well what her youngest was doing. Caught with her purse in his hand, the last of her money clutched between his fin
Will Vaughn, a man of late middle age living in Chicago with his second wife, remembers the month of June 1957 in his hometown, the rural village of New Holland, Iowa. More precisely, Will remembers j
An Englishman of indeterminate age whose spiritual home has always been France, Tarquin embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on
Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better pros
A guided tour of predator-prey relationships through the different but often overlapping worlds of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, plants, insects, microorganisms, as well as the fossilized record of
Drawing on her unique position as the wife of a New England fisherman and on photographs from the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Cape Ann Historical Society, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the
Padgett Powell's fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out
