The emperor not only of fashion but also of l’art de vivre, Valentino Garavani is in a class all his own. At the Emperor’s Table is an invitation into his refined world of graceful and cultured living
You duck into the safest-looking abandoned house you can find and hold your breath as you listen for the approaching zombie horde you’ve been running from all day. You hear a gurgling sound. Is it the
Nine years after leaving the small Scottish town where she’d grown up, Tag Grainger is forced to return following the sudden death of her father?and back to a life she’s long since put behind her. Aft
Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer,
"Cammy Chameleon has been blending in all her life to help her catch bugs, but lately it seems like no one is paying attention to her. One day, Cammy has an idea. She carefully concentrates and then,
An important look at how America has won its wars in the past and how it can continue winning in the future.Is there a recipe for military success? In No Substitute for Victory, author David Rigby gra
As the founding member of Survivor and co-writer of one of the most inspirational songs in rock history, Jim Peterik easily fits into the category of ?rock star.” But a closer look at Peterik’s life a
Homeowners and renters of all means dream of having a beautiful home. With the lingering recession, many of us have less to work with but still long to live in style. Big Design, Small Budget makes lu
Baby boomer Morgan Ronzio’s troubled marriage is the least of her worries when she gets the call that her addled, eighty-six-year-old, half-blind dad, Mac, has stolen a car and escaped the rest home.B
Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a
By the winter of 1810?11, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain, and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. But the Spanish government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz,
Red, blue, and yellow are just the tip of the iceberg when you have a good imagination. In this colorfully illustrated story, a young girl makes her way through the day?first painting a portrait of he
Leaving home was the best decision Chrys Pickett ever made. She lost her rural accent, got a PhD. and made something of herself, promising she’d never go back to her roots. But when your Nanny needs y
What would you change about your past if you had the chance? What if you didn’t have a choice?Stevie Geller doesn’t do conflict. She likes her job as a successful novelist and playwright because it al
A son sets out to make things right and avenge his father’s death in this dark Western noir.Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. Upon his return to the famil
"A Tribe Reborn tells the story of a failing franchise, from "The Mistake by the Lake" to "The Curse of Rocky Colavito," and how a laughingstock team that was on the verge of relocating changed its wa
Bob Feller’s journey from an Iowa farm to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, began in 1936. That’s when the 17-year-old pitcher took the mound for the Cleveland Indians and struck out
Allura Satou is in a funk. She’s tried to keep up appearances, but the post-breakup blues are dragging her down. Writing no longer holds much joy, though she continues to keep track of charms and ritu
It’s 1981, and Bryant thinks his move to New York will be the beginning of a new life. But the men he meets are being threatened by a mysterious illness. Could transforming into a Night Creature save
From the author of The Campaign and No Rules of Engagement?Pamela Wright will never forgive her sister for dying in the Afghanistan war, or the Army for Laura’s death, or anyone else for making it oka
Jackie Kennedy compared him to Cellini, the Duchess of Windsor said he was today’s Faberge, and The New Yorker described him as ?the new meteor around town.” David Webb was the go-to jeweler in the 19
The note attached to her grandmother’s will has left debutante Mae St. John with this: the family fortune is gone; the father she never knew lives in Louisiana; and her only income is a modest trust f
Osama bin Laden is dead, but Al Qaeda remains the CIA’s ?number one threat.” Yet since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the organization has evolved into a much more complex and far-flung entity
In his national bestseller HYBRID, Brian O'Grady created a bracing and vividly realized tale of a virus gone out of control. At the center of that story was Amanda Flynn, a woman not killed by the EDH
?It ain’t bragging if it’s true.” ?a rodeo bull riderWhy are jobs moving from the once Golden State of California to the Lone Star State of Texas? Why are the best and the brightest moving from Chicag
Find allies in old enemies. Embrace a familiar, forgotten love. Recognize who you are?and you who aren’t. These are the tasks laid out before Whiskey as she struggles to accept that she is the lost Qu
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a dec
What do the crows know that they aren’t telling but are willing to show the way? gone is an elegant combination of poetic phrasing and worth-a-thousand-word imagery that unravels a story that is diffe
Is it possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met? Imogen Summers thinks so because it’s happened to her.Immy is a normal eighteen-year-old, with a normal life, a normal family, and a norma
It’s the middle of the night when Beth Watson sneaks out of the house, steals a car, and drives, desperate to run from what she’s seen, what happened to Jack. She drives across several states until sh
Miranda Jasper just wants her life to go back to normal. For Miranda, "normal" means living in a spooky old house in tiny Wilder, Kentucky, with her mom and granny who, like her, share a mysterious po
What Jude Jaeger seeks is simple. What she needs is complicated. Woman. She has one a night at Conquest, sometimes two. And she gives them what no one else can or will. Pleasure. But outside the club,
Eric Matthews survives a near-fatal accident only to find his whole life has changed.Eric Matthews wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how he wound up there?and soon learns that it’s vital that
When Pablo Picasso was living in Mougins, on the French Riviera, he asked his friend Mariano Miguel Montanes to come and live with him to help him out as a secretary. From this time on, Miguel became
The spiritual leader of The Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page. Treat him as any other customer and do not respond to his or his devotees' antics. Ask
While we may be familiar with the fabulous imagination of Gustav Klimt and his portraits of femmes fatales or mythical women, we are less aware of the fact that the artist also made a name for himself
Open Hotel Stories and you will be transported to the most talked about haunts across the globe: Greta Garbo was "born" in a Berlin palace; "James Bond" was created in a house in Jamaica; Al Capone li
Not long ago, the fate of a film or Broadway show rested in the hands of the critics. Producers and directors could be found in Sardis opening night waiting nervously for the reviews in the late editi
What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They have all worn #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more th
No one has her life more mapped out than Kai Merlin. She’ll succeed her mother Galen and carry out every duty expected of herthe most important of which is to keep hidden the secrets her people have k
