Edmund White A bittersweet novel of adolescent sexuality, A Boy’s Own Story has a universality that evokes memories for everyone, male and female, gay and straight: the perplexing rites of passage, the...

Francoise Gilot Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two.  For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the...

Michael Pollan What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma. When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket)...

Shane O'Mara Our brains have distinct mechanisms for talking about thoughts, about memories, about feelings and about the future. In Praise of Talking will be about the neuroscience of how we talk...

Randy Mosher Everyone knows how to drink beer, but few know how to really taste it with an understanding of the finer points of brewing, serving, and food pairing. Discover...

Dave Barry Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Wheel of Fortune contestant Dave Barry exposes the shattering truth. Whether he's splashing with the U.S. sychronized swim team ("Picture a bunch...

Anita Shreve When two lovers meet again after thirty-one years of separation, they renew their attraction and grapple with the issues of aging, erotic love, and betrayal. January 1, 1993...

Scot D Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino The Marchesa Luisa Casati was Europe's most notorious celebrity, and its most eccentric. For the first three decades of the twentieth century she...

Author: James Patterson Alex Cross is drawn into a bitter personal battle against corruption, conspiracy and savage violence in a chase that takes him through an uncompromising landscape. When Cross...

John Grisham Theodore Boone is back - and the stakes are higher than ever.When Theo's best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one...

Mike Gayle Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can...

Penina Shtauber Welcome to the world of shidduch dating.Like any world, it has its stereotypes. We've got the stingy guy and the superficial girl, the too-religious, the not-religious-enough and everyone...