Kurt Andersen Everyone will compare Kurt Andersen's scathingly funny first novel to Tom Wolfe's fictional debut, The Bonfire of the Vanities. Like Wolfe, Andersen is a merry terrorist, a status-attuned assassin...

Harper's English Classics The stories in this impressive collection have been chosen for the challenge they offer the reader and the variety of language used. December 1, 1999 by Thomas...

Gail Sheehy Her stunning bestsellers Passages and New Passages brilliantly mapped the changes we live through from youth to maturity. Now Gail Sheehy guides contemporary men through the turbulent challenges...

Jackum Brown Introduces vegetarian Thai cooking, and shares traditional recipes for sauces, salads, soups, curries, rice and noodles, and desserts. January 1, 1999 by Hamlyn

Fannie Flagg Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby...

Steve Stone with Barry RoznerA friend of the legendary sportscaster for more than 20 years, Stone regales readers with hundreds of stories about the baseball icon. Hardcover, 256 pages Published...

Dick Francis Sid Halley had been a champion jockey. But those days were lost in a fall beneath 500 pounds of horse that cost him his left hand and his...

C Leslie Charles If you're mad as hell and not going to take it any longer, take a look at this book. Road rage, death threats, teen violence, explosive aggression...

Robert Crompton Some words to not apply to William Brown. Sweet, charming, "dear little boy" . . . That sounds more like Georgie Murdoch, who is so sickly sweet that...

Conrad Wennerberg An inspiring history of marathon swimming, of interest to all endurance athletes. January 1, 1999 by Breakaway Books

Andrew Jute This book guides the reader through a number of identifiable stages including the following: choosing the initial theme of a story; the creation of characters; detailed plotting; research;...

Eugen Herrigel The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account.This book is the result...