Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for fiction, two of England's most prestigious awards, Smack tells a penetrating story about heroin use, a topic that is becoming familiar in the ne
Set in the heart of the Sussex downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style.When painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Vanessa's two children an
* "Boniface, an orphan, is sent to live with his uncle, the mayor of a small German village. On the way, he is left to fend for himself in the middle of the forest and is rescued by a mysterious stran
Fifteen short stories rife with irony, historical overtones, and a feeling for the picaresque include accounts of Carry Nation's fight against topless bars and Tonto's fortieth birthday, which passes
Preparing to take up the generations-old love affair with his family's farmhouse in Normandy, Nicholas Kilmer is beset by enemies—many of whom appear in the guise of friends. Julia, his wife, also obj
Bette Hagman, the Gluten-free Gourmet, is recognized as a pioneer in the use of "safe" flours for those who are gluten intolerant and allergic to wheat. Her first two books, The Gluten-free Gourmet an
In six easy steps, accomplished Hollywood entertainment lawyer Marc Diener shows how to ask all the right questions when entering into a deal. "Deal Power's" positive approach is the tool for individu
Since1988, Terry Pindell has been exploring North America, seeking integration of past and present, history and headlines. The result has been three highly acclaimed books spinning a beautiful web of
There isn't much that can lure enigmatic NFL star Wyatt Storme away from his life of splendid isolation in the mountains near Denver. One thing that can is his friendship with Chick Easton - a hard-dr
It is an inescapable part of the human condition: we don't get to keep our gifts and our powers forever. Whether it is illness, or aging, or the confrontation with our mortality that delivers this mes
Though the roots of single-sex schooling extend back to the very origins of education in this country, in this century the institution has been an easy target for criticism—the common perception being
The Alpine heart of the European continent, Switzerland is only one third the area of New York State yet accommodates peoples of four languages and many dialects.Zurich, Basel, and Geneva are prime tr
After living for twenty years in a picture-book New England town envied for its autumn maples and Currier-and-Ives snowfalls, Terry Pindell sensed something missing in his community and set out to fin
When Harry Barnett is informed that his son has been hospitalized in London in a diabetic coma, he thinks there is some mistake. He doesn't have a son. But Harry soon di
"There ain't no words right enough to explain feelin' free."On a dark Texas night in 1863 Midnight Son escapes from the plantation where he has lived all his life. In constant fear of bounty hunters,
The summer of 1907 is beginning to settle on western Arkansas, and seven-year-old Jay Bird Joey Schwartz, resident orphan of a Ft. Smith bordello, has taken to spending his evenings in the National Ce
The one universal fact of life is death. Yet different cultures define and react to death so variously that the events surrounding it are a key indicator of the exuberant inventiveness of each society
"With pitiless clarity and bristling energy, Todd Wiggins has shot a picaresque Gothic video which tracks a ragtag band of America's mad children racing their Mustang into the Wild West and yacking ab
The menacing underside of family life is the subject of Eden Robinson's extraordinary debut collection. In crackling prose, Robinson describes homes ruled by bullies, psychopaths, and delinquents; fam
Peter Nichols and his wife bought and restored an old wooden sailboat, Toad, and lived aboard it for five years, sailing through the Caribbean and across the Atlantic to Europe, where their marriage b
