-Titulo Original : The Lost Girls Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around The World.-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “A triumphant journey about losing yourself, finding yourself and coming home again. Hitch yourself to their ride: you’ll embark on a transformative journey of your own.” - Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My LifeThree friends, each on the brink of a quarter-life crisis, make a pact to quit their high pressure New York City media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and everything familiar to embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world in The Lost Girls.With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones-score the big promotion, find a soul mate, have 2.2 kids. Instead, they make a pact to quit their jobs and set out on a journey in search of inspiration and direction.Traveling 60,000 miles across four continents, Jen, Holly, and Amanda push themselves far outside their comfort zones to embrace every adventure. Ultimately, theirs is a story of true friendship-a bond forged by sharing beds and backpacks, enduring exotic illnesses, trekking across mountains, and standing by one another through heartaches, whirlwind romances, and everything in the world in between. Review “[P]otentially serious side effects [include] chronic wanderlust; severe allergic reactions to the daily grind; and an incurable desire to toss that Blackberry down a drain….Three cheers to the Lost Girls for showing us, with good humor and graceful prose, the beauty and importance of leading life astray.” - Franz Wisner, New York Times Bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother“Brave, funny, and deeply moving, THE LOST GIRLS is a real-life fairy tale for anyone who’s ever wanted to chuck it all and see the world with a best friend on each arm.” - Cathy Alter, author of Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over“The three authors, all gifted writers...provide passionate, vivid descriptions of their far-flung travels, bolstered by thoughtful insights and genuine intentions, making this an intensely enjoyable read for fans of travel writing....immediately relatable for any twenty-something unsure of his or her future (i.e., most of them).” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)“For anyone-young or old, female or male-who has ever been tempted to trade in the rat race for the thrill and adventure of long-term global travel. And after reading this book, don’t be surprised if you want to do just that.” - David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity“The Lost Girls captures the generational struggle so many twentysomethings face as they try to find their way with no clear map. I ... found myself cheering as they discovered more than they could have bargained for.” - Laura Dave, author of The Divorce Party“A triumphant journey about losing yourself, finding yourself and coming home again. Hitch yourself to their ride: you’ll embark on a transformative journey of your own.” - Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life“...[W]hen it comes to travel (and most other things), a goal is a dream with a deadline, but the Lost Girls have gone one step further….The best travel adventures, the most memorable experiences happen when things don’t go according to plan. That’s why I love this book.” - Peter Greenberg, Travel Editor, CBS News“...Jen, Holly and Amanda’s lively accounts make for the ideal armchair journey.” - Booklist“…the real appeal of the story is the long road they take together, each supporting the others on a soul-searching quest to create a life that matters.” - BookPage“Jennifer, Holly and Amanda have had the adventure of their lives.” - Los Angeles Times From the Back Cover With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones-score the big promotion, find a soul mate, have 2.2 kids. Instead, they make a pact to quit the...

-Titulo Original : The Things They Cannot Say Stories Soldiers Wont Tell You About What Theyve Seen, Done Or Failed To Do In War-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and its psychological aftermath. What makes Kevin’s reporting unique and essential is that it didn’t stop on the battlefield-he followed his subjects home.” - ViceAn important look at the unspoken and unknown truths of war and its impact, told through the personal stories of those who have been there.In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a courage that transcends battlefield heroics-they share the truth about their wars. For each it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love, another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man, while yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him.Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what’s right? What can you never forget?Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.He learns that war both gives and takes from those most involved in it. Some struggle in disequilibrium, while others find balance, usually with the help of communities who have learned to listen, without judgment, to the real stories of the men and women it has sent to fight its battles. Review “The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and its psychological aftermath. What makes Kevin’s reporting unique and essential is that it didn’t stop on the battlefield-he followed his subjects home.” - Vice“Sites highlights the importance of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and sharing stories. Most importantly, he forces readers, those average civilians, to look at what war does to people and think about whether it’s always worth it.” - San Francisco ChronicleA vivid set of portrats of modern combatants written in prose taht moves with speed and heat.” - Edward Tick, Ph. D., codirector of Soldiers Heart and author of of War and Soul“Riveting and emotionally raw...These gripping stories...are evidence of a profound desire to heal.” - Publishers Weekly“This is tough stuff, as many of the experiences recounted here are graphic, cruel, and bloody, but they offer an intimate look at the costs of war on a personal, elemental level.” - Booklist“In sensitive, honest prose, the author emphasizes that this is a book about hope. An important book for warriors and the communities that send them to war.” - Kirkus ReviewsA gritty look at postwar distress, including veterans’ personal accounts, by a journalist with his own intimate perspective on the subject. - Shelf Awareness (Bruce Jacobs of Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, KS From the Back Cover What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know whats right? What can you never forget?In The Things They Cannot Say, award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who-by sharing the truth about their wars-display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics.For each of these men, many of whom Sites first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq, the truth means something different. One struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love; another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man; yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Sites also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war-including hi...

-Titulo Original : The Real Jane Austen A Life In Small Things-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne’s Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she’s often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility-and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.” - Publishers WeeklyIn The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist.Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen’s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things - a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature - that held significance in Austen’s personal and creative life.Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer - important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked.The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books - from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion - and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her. Review “[Byrne] breathes yet more life into Austen and her works by considering the objects that populated her days…. [The] thematic approach offers a revealing picture of Austen and a lively social history….paints a fresh and vivid picture of an inimitable woman.” - The Economist“Byrne’s aim is to show how these objects, many of them reproduced in her book in lush color plates, reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to Austen.” - Maureen Corrigan, NPR“A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne’s Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she’s often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility.” - Publishers Weekly“An excellent new biography…well-researched and entertaining…Byrne gives us a Jane Austen many readers may not recognize: a woman who enjoyed black humor and was well aware of the political scene of her time.” - Bookreporter “Vividly persuasive…. The Real Jane Austen is excellent… particularly on the dissonant topics of theater and slavery….Byrnes section on slavery is better still, establishing links between Austen’s protagonists and contemporary figures, her pointed references and contemporary events, which highlight her supposedly oblivious fiction’s sharp views on the slave trade.” - New York Times Book Review“Bryne’s engaging prose and thoughtful, determined analysis of tangible objects from her life give us a picture of Austen as a vivid, vital woman committed to her career as a novelist, clear-eyed and part of the wider world. Well worth a read.” - Literary Omnivore“Biographer Paula Byrne has taken objects from Jane Austen’s real life and times and used them as if we were dropping in on Austen on any given day...a dynamic new biography in which Austen lives and breathes.” - NPR/All Things Considered“Byrne takes Austen seriously as a writer...[she] brings to life a woman of “wonderful exuberance and self-confidence,” of “firm opinions and strong passions.” Little wonder that every other man she meets seems to fall in love with her.” - Michael Dirda, Washington Post“A fresh behind-the-scenes look at an author who, for many, stands behind only Shakespeare as the greatest English writer.” - Shelf Awareness“Brilliantly illuminating…riveting…Again and again…Byrne opens out Austen’s story with a novelist’s persistent probing of the evidence.” - Simon Callow, The Guardian“Magnificent…explodes the old view of Jane Austen. Byrne’s research is wide, deep and meticulous…a more v...

-Titulo Original : Paris Without End The True Story Of Hemingways First Wife-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” -Vogue“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” -NewsdayHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship-a literary love story scarred by Hadley’s loss of the only copy of Hemingway’s first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating menage a trois on the French Riviera.Compelling, illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful, Paris Without End provides a rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his art-the only woman Hemingway never stopped loving. Review “Fascinating….A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” - Newsday“Impressively researched and judiciously written . . . Diliberto has made a lasting place for Hadley in readers’ hearts.” - People“A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel . . . their intimacy and candour was the raw material for Hemingway’s great early short stories which achieved a powerful new realism about he relations between men and women.” - Vogue“Diliberto has done an exemplary job of digging out the facts…the book brings Hadley to life on the page as never before.” - Chicago Tribune“Tell[s] the sweeping story of [Hadley’s] romance with Hemingway with all the warmth and excitement they generated…It portrays Hadley-somewhat neglected by Hemingway’s earlier biographers-as a spirited and interesting woman.” - Washington Post Book World“Gioia Diliberto’s book…cuts through the simplistic myths surrounding her subjects and gives us instead a thoughtful, detailed and rewarding look at what it cost one very talented woman to inspire the best work from one of America’s…literary geniuses.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune“No one has written with such insight about [Hadley].” - The Oregonian (Portland)“Skillfully shows how Hemingway’s life with Hadley was reflected in his writing . . . Insightful…Turns both Ernest and Hadley Hemingway, with all their flaws, into recognizably human figures, as it relives their bittersweet romance.” - Parade“Fascinating not only for its portrait of a very special woman but for its insight into Hemingway’s personality and work as well.” - Daily News“Beautifully crafted, rigorously researched, and absolutely heartbreaking.” - Chicago Magazine“An unusual biography that makes its points with intelligence and clarity.” - Newark Star Ledger“Juicy.” - Los Angeles Times“A riveting portrait . . . superbly evokes Paris of the 1920s.” - New Woman From the Back Cover Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship-a literary love story scarred by Hadley’s loss of the only copy of Hemingway’s first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating menage a trois on the French Riviera.Compelling, illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful, Paris Without End provides a rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his art-the only woman Hemingway never stopped loving. About the Author Gioia Diliberto is a journalist, biographer, and novelis...

-Titulo Original : Lady At The O.k. Corral The True Story Of Josephine Marcus Earp-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this fascinating biography, Ann Kirschner, author of the acclaimed Salas Gift, brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her tale: a spirited and colorful tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention, and devotion. Reflective of America itself, her story brings us from the post-Civil War years to World War II, and from New York to the Arizona Territory to old Hollywood.In Lady at the O.K. Corral, you’ll learn how this aspiring actress and dancer-a flamboyant, curvaceous Jewish girl with a persistent New York accent-landed in Tombstone, Arizona, and sustained a lifelong partnership with Wyatt Earp, a man of uncommon charisma and complex heroism. Review “Ann Kirschner has cleverly identified a parallel story buried under the debris of history: that of Josephine Marcus, for early 50 years Earp’s common-law wife and a valiant frontierswoman in her own right.” - New York Times Book Review“Scrumptious is the only word to describe Lady at the O.K. Corral. This quick-paced biography has it all going on: sex, beauty, blood, guns, bad men and wild girls.” - USA Today“Splendid.” - Wall Street Journal“Lady is as engaging as a novel. She has provided a delightful, thoughtful account of a little-known woman who shared a half-century of devotion with a legend.” - American Jewish World“Ann Kirschner’s well-researched Lady at the O.K. Corral exposes what many never knew about Earp and his times, but also significantly repositions what we did know with a commanding narrative.” - Express Milwaukee“Highly recommended for Old West enthusiasts and scholars, high school and up.” - Library Journal (starred review)“Kirschner restores Josephine to her rightful historical place.” - The Forward“An admiring and vivacious biography. . . . Kirschner’s fascinating profile captures the restless spirit of the frontier as deftly as it does Josephine’s energy, affection, and limitless appetite for adventure.” - Publishers Weekly“Well-researched. . . . [An] engaging biography.” - Washington Independent Review of Books“With vividness and certainty, Kirschner lays her story to rest at last. Tragedy, adventure, romance and scholarly investigation come together like pioneers to a boomtown, with something for Earp worshipers and casual readers alike.” - Kirkus Reviews“Ann Kirschner brings a fresh, lively perspective to one of the great stories of the American frontier. Lady at the OK Corral reveals a fascinating intersection of Jewish history and the Wild West; its engaging narrative both celebrates and demystifies a legendary time and place.” - Julie Salamon, author of Wendy and the Lost Boys“The story of Josephine Earp proves that even the best lawman in the Wild West needed a good woman to stand beside him, as improbable as their romance was, and as riveting a read as this book most certainly is.” - Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham and Payback: The Case for Revenge“Thanks to Ann Kirschner’s brilliant Lady at the O.K. Corral, we finally have the definitive story of Josie Earp. . . . This is a must-read book for anyone who loves narrative nonfiction, or simply enjoys a hellaciously well-told tale.” - Jeff Guinn, author of The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral - And How It Changed the American West“In this remarkable feat of historical sleuthing, Lady at the O.K. Corral paints a vibrant portrait of an uncommon couple whose love for one another and shared thirst for adventure took them to the farthest reaches of the Wild West during its blustery boom times.” - Bruce J. Dinges, Arizona Historical So...

-Titulo Original : John Quincy Adams American Visionary-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer. . . . If he could read this biography, Adams would be satisfied that he had been fairly dealt with at last.” -Carol Berkin, Washington PostIn this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed author of Lincoln, brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams-the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams-and reveals how Adams inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America.Kaplan draws on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his time in the White House and beyond. He examines Adams myriad sides: the public and private man, the statesman and writer, the wise thinker and passionate advocate, the leading abolitionist and fervent federalist. In these ways, Adams was a predecessor of Lincoln and, later, FDR and Obama. This sweeping biography makes clear how Adams forward-thinking values, his definition of leadership, and his vision for the nations future is as much about twenty-first-century America as it is about Adams own time.Meticulously researched and masterfully written, John Quincy Adams paints a rich portrait of this brilliant leader and his vision for a young nation. Review “Kaplan has produced a full-length narrative of this remarkable life, rendered in lucid and loving prose. . . . Kaplan rightly portrays Adams as a man ahead of his time. . . . A valuable book about an important American figure.” - Robert W. Merry, The New York Times Book Review“An engaging, well-crafted, and deeply researched biography that puts particular emphasis on John Quincy’s rich life of the mind.” - Susan Dunn, The New York Review of Books“In undertaking John Quincy Adams, Fred Kaplan. . . clearly is trying to do for the son what David McCullough did for the father. . . . It was a notable life, marked now by a notable biography.” - The Boston Globe“John Quincy Adams should be required reading inside the Beltway. . . . Kaplan has penned a richly detailed canticle to his subject. . . . Kaplan’s narrative is both riveting and brimming with telling details.” - The Christian Science Monitor“Well-researched and well-written. . . . An admiring and admirable account.” - The Wall Street Journal“Insightful and engrossing. . . . As Kaplan makes plain in his own clear and finely chiseled prose, John Quincy Adams was, at his core, a writer. . . . A fine biography.” - Annette Gordon-Reed, The American Scholar“An exemplary portrait. . . . Kaplan is accomplished at the art of biography.” - Louis P. Masur, The Los Angeles Review of Books“Beautifully researched and written. . . . Biography fans, don’t miss this one.” - The Washingtonian, Best Books of the Month“As well-written, comprehensive, and satisfying account of Adams’s personal life and career as we have seen in print.” - The Washington Times“There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . These are the marks of a master historian and biographer.” - Carol Berkin, The Washington Post From the Back Cover In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams-the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams-and reveals how Adams inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America.Kaplan draws on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his ti...

-Titulo Original : True Story Tie-in Edition Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: The improbable but true story of a man accused of murdering his entire family and the journalist he impersonated while on the runIn 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under extraordinary pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. When the phone rang, though, he couldn’t resist. At the other end was a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, whom Finkel congratulated on being the first in what was sure to be a long and bloodthirsty line of media watchdogs. The reporter was puzzled. In Waldport, Oregon, Christian Longo had killed his young wife and three children and dumped their bodies into the bay. With a stolen credit card, he fled south, making his way to Cancun, where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel, journalist for the New York Times. True Story is the tale of a bizarre and convoluted collision between fact and fiction, and a meditation on the slippery nature of truth. When Finkel contacts Longo in jail, the two men begin a close and complex relationship. Over the course of a year, they exchange long letters and weekly phone calls, playing out a cat-and-mouse game in which it’s never quite clear if the pursuer is Finkel or Longo or both. Finkel’s dogged pursuit of the true story pays off only at the end, in the gripping trial scenes in which Longo, after a lifetime of deception, finally tells the whole truth. Or so he says. Review “Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end.” - Esquire“Astute and hypnotically absorbing . . . there’s a burning sincerity and beautifully modulated writing on every page.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments. - New York NewsdayCombines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre. - Washington Post Book WorldAlways fascinating, sometimes funny, often very weird . . . simply terrific from the first page to the last. - Jeffrey ToobinA compulsively readable amorality tale. - Boston GlobeA memoir as creepy as it is compelling...expertly and suspensefully told. - Outside magazine From the Back Cover Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jonah Hill & James Franco and Distributed by Fox Searchlight PicturesWhen New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo-who has taken on Finkels identity-his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkels relentless pursuit of the shocking truth. About the Author Michael Finkel has written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana...

-Titulo Original : Beer Money A Memoir Of Privilege And Loss-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In the tradition of Rich Cohen’s Sweet and Low and Sean Wilsey’s Oh the Glory of it All, a memoir of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist’s struggle to find her way out of the ruins.Frances Stroh’s earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million.But behind the beautiful façade lay a crumbling foundation. Detroit’s economy collapsed with the retreat of the automotive industry to the suburbs and abroad and likewise the Stroh family found their wealth and legacy disappearing. As their fortune dissolved in little over a decade, the family was torn apart internally by divorce and one family members drug bust; disagreements over the management of the business; and disputes over the remaining money they possessed. Even as they turned against one another, looking for a scapegoat on whom to blame the unraveling of their family, they could not anticipate that even far greater tragedy lay in store.Featuring beautiful evocative photos throughout, Stroh’s memoir is elegantly spare in structure and mercilessly clear-eyed in its self-appraisal-at once a universally relatable family drama and a great American story. Review “Stroh’s absorbing memoir suggests that most cocoons are permeable and that privilege is relative.” - New York Times Book Review“With the piercing eye of a visual artist ... Stroh stitches together her and her family’s stories in a series of verbal snapshots.... Stroh’s compelling memoir vividly portrays the aching permanence of loss and the palpability of hope that accompanies starting over.” - Publishers Weekly“Beer Money is one of those memoirs you neither put down nor forget. I’ll remember Frances Stroh’s family and the beautifully candid, honest and often unforgettable voice she uses to describe them for a long time. I was very moved by this book.” - George Hodgman, author of Bettyville“How does a family dynasty die? In her image-rich memoir, ‘Beer Money,’ Frances Stroh asks the question with heroic honesty, from the inside.” - San Francisco Chronicle“With an artist’s eye for visual detail… her frank and engrossing memoir captures the long decline of the city of Detroit and her sadly dysfunctional family.” - BBC “A compelling story of loss, but also of the resiliency needed to forgive the past and forge a new future. The Strohs may have lost the trappings of the American Dream, but Frances Stroh finds something of greater value: compassion for family despite and because of their missteps and flaws.” - Melissa Coleman, author of This Life Is in Your Hands“I thought of Sean Wilsey’s great memoir as I read, but what makes Stroh’s book so particular are the class contradictions. In movie terms think Ralph Lauren meets Old Milwaukee. Oh, and it’s also a very moving and powerful story of one young woman’s coming of age.” - Tom Barbash, author of Stay Up With Me“If the family owned and operated Stroh’s Brewing Co. strived to preserve an image as highbrow folks who nevertheless understood the desires of everyday consumers, Frances Stroh... strips away the facade and reclaims truth.” - San Jose Mercury News“Of course, the Strohs’ story is fascinating in itself. But what makes this memoir special is Frances Stroh’s clear, brave voice. Free of regret or judgment, she renders even her family’s darkest moments with grace and love. A page-turner in the very best sense.” - Katie Crouch, author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad“In Beer Money, Frances Stroh takes us on a fascinating and often chilling journey into the world ...

-Titulo Original : Grant And Sherman The Friendship That Won The Civil War-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: They were both prewar failures-Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military academy-in the years before the firing on Fort Sumter. They began their unique collaboration ten months into the war, at the Battle of Shiloh, each carefully taking the others measure. They shared the demands of family life and the heartache of personal tragedy. They shared similar philosophies of battle, employed similar strategies and tactics, and remained in close, virtually daily communication throughout the conflict. They were incontestably two of the Civil Wars most important figures, and the deep, abiding friendship they shared made the Unions ultimate victory possible.Poignant, riveting, and elegantly written, Grant and Sherman is a remarkable portrait of two extraordinary men and a singular friendship, forged on the battlefield, that would change the course of history. Review “Grant and Sherman...captures both the glory and the sorrow of comrades parting after a long ordeal.” - Mike Pride, Baltimore Sun“[A] powerful and illuminating study of a military collaboration that won the war for the Union.” - Josiah Bunting III, Washington Post About the Author Charles Bracelen Flood is the author of Lee: The Last Years; Hitler: The Path to Power; and Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence, winner of an American Revolution Round Table Award. He lives with his wife on a farm in Richmond, Kentucky...

-Titulo Original : American On Purpose The Improbable Adventures Of An Unlikely Patriot-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “With American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written a book that is hilarious and irrepressibly daft, yet also kind, poignant, and undeniably wise. It was a joy to read.” - Dennis Lehane, New York Times Bestselling author of The Given DayFerguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark-as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: success on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, and later as the host of CBSs Late Late Show. By far Fergusons greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008.In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared. Review “A fine writer, witty, reflective, and candid.... Ferguson is a kinetic cutup teeming with foolishness, brilliance, defiance, and heart. All this is captured in his book as an entertaining connect-the-dots journey.” - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers“Hilariously vivid.” - People“Funny and poignant and inspirational and brilliant. Nowhere in his story of emigration and redemption does Craig Ferguson realize that as lucky as he thinks he is to be ‘American on Purpose,’ we are luckier still to have him.” - Keith Olbermann“With American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written a book that is hilarious and irrepressibly daft, yet also kind, poignant, and undeniably wise. It was a joy to read.” - Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day“A great read . . . almost as good as my memoir.” - Carrie Fisher, author of Wishful Drinking“Ferguson has given us a biographical treatment that is both brutally honest and inspirational…American on Purpose is a book that should be read.” - Chicago Sun-Times“Hilarious and revealing...witty and emotional.” - The Daily Beast From the Back Cover In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark-as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer. To numb the pain of failure, Ferguson found comfort in drugs and alcohol, addictions that eventually led to an aborted suicide attempt. (He forgot to do it when someone offered him a glass of sherry.) But his story has a happy ending: success on the hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show, and later as the host of CBSs Late Late Show. By far Fergusons greatest triumph was his decision to become a U.S. citizen, a milestone he achieved in early 2008.In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson talks a red, white, and blue streak about everything our Founding Fathers feared. About the Author Craig Ferguson is the host of The Late Late Show. He is the author of the novel Between the Bridge and the River and lives in Los Angeles, California...

-Titulo Original : Crazy 08 How A Cast Of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, And Magnates Created The Greatest Year In Baseball History-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chances boast is manifest-these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseballs greatest team-the first dynasty of the 20th century.Crazy 08 recounts the 1908 season-the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chances men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewsons New York Giants and Honus Wagners Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen. The American League has its own three-cornered pennant fight, and players like Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and the egregiously crooked Hal Chase ensured that the junior circuit had its moments. But it was the National Leagues-and the Cubs-year. Crazy 08, however, is not just the exciting story of a great season. It is also about the forces that created modern baseball, and the America that produced it. In 1908, crooked pols run Chicagos First Ward, and gambling magnates control the Yankees. Fans regularly invade the field to do handstands or argue with the umps; others shoot guns from rickety grandstands prone to burning. There are anarchists on the loose and racial killings in the town that made Lincoln. On the flimsiest of pretexts, General Abner Doubleday becomes a symbol of Americanism, and baseballs own anthem, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, is a hit. Picaresque and dramatic, 1908 is a season in which so many weird and wonderful things happen that it is somehow unsurprising that a hairpiece, a swarm of gnats, a sudden bout of lumbago, and a disaster down in the mines all play a role in its outcome. And sometimes the events are not so wonderful at all. There are several deaths by baseball, and the shadow of corruption creeps closer to the heart of baseball-the honesty of the game itself. Simply put, 1908 is the year that baseball grew up.Oh, and it was the last time the Cubs won the World Series.Destined to be as memorable as the season it documents, Crazy 08 sets a new standard for what a book about baseball can be. Review Crazy ’08 is simply a delight, required reading for all fans of baseball in Chicago. - --Chicago Tribune“If you are any kind of fan, you ought to relish and revel in this wonderful book” - --Washington TimesA penetrating look at the dead-ball era, when the game truly was the national pastime. A- - --Entertainment Weekly“picturesque details are what make...Crazy ‘08 such a fun and revealing journey through the early days of baseball.” - --Sports Illustrated“Entertaining and meticulously researched.” - Wall Street Journal“Beguiling” - Raleigh News & Observer“[A] rollicking tour... will fascinate students of baseball... cause today’s Cub fans to experience an unaccustomed feeling---pride...” - New York Times Book Review“[W]orthy to stand alongside The Glory of Their Times..., out in front.” - Raleigh News & Observer About the Author Cait Murphy is the author of Crazy 08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History and has worked at Fortune, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong. She lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Six Wives The Queens Of Henry Viii-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study but also has fresh discoveries that subtly alter the picture he started out with.” - Sunday Times (London)The dramatic, legendary story of Henry VIII, his six wives, and the England they ruled-told by one of the world’s preeminent historians of the Tudor era.Perhaps no one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were tumultuous and complicated, and made instant legends of six very different women. Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year marriage was a relatively stable prelude to what followed. Anne Boleyn, a pretty, French-educated Protestant who was the mother of Elizabeth I, was eventually beheaded. Jane Seymour served as a demure contrast to the vampish Boleyn, and gave birth to Henry’s longed-for son (Edward VI). After a brief marriage to the plain Anne of Cleves, Henry married a flirtatious teenager, Catherine Howard, who would be the second of his brides to lose her head along with the king’s favor. Finally, there was Catherine Parr, a shrewd Protestant bluestocking.In this brilliant new work, one of the world’s most respected historians weaves startling new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama and political intrigue that attended Henry’s six marriages. With a keen eye for both the personal and the global stage, David Starkey masterfully recaptures the Tudor era-and the wives of Henry VIII-as only he can. Review “Relentlessly scholarly, Starkey’s is the best study of Henry’s wives ever published. . . . The particular strength of this mammoth book lies in integrating the petty politics of family and personal advancement with the ‘high politics’ of state. . . . A masterly and persuasive narrative which, despite its prodigious detail, never loses its grip over the story or the reader.” - The Evening Standard“David Starkey reigns supreme over Tudor history.” - Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire“Exciting. ... Very acute. ... It is so gripping that one finishes it wishing it were even longer.” - Mail on Sunday“Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study but also has fresh discoveries that subtly alter the picture he started out with.” - Sunday Times (London)“Acute and imaginative. . . . [Starkey’s] communication of subtle points in simple and vivid language is masterly. . . . In writing a book which scholars will need to read, and which huge numbers of people will want to buy, he has brought off the seemingly impossible.” - Sunday Telegraph“Brilliant. . . . Starkey keeps the narrative alive with a combination of sound chronology, peppery opinion, and startling detail. . . . Six Wives provides an intriguing new perspective on this key period in English history.” - Daily Telegraph (London)“Extraordinary. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study.” - Sunday Times (London)“Acute and imaginative. ... [Starkey’s] communication of subtle points in simple and vivid language is masterly.” - Sunday Telegraph“Brilliant. ... Six Wives provides an intriguing new perspective on this key period in English history.” - Daily Telegraph (London)“Eminently interesting. . . . A rich account of the six long-celebrated women who, for better or worse, shared the throne with the ax-happy Tudor king. . . .A boon to fans of English royal history, full of murder and mayhem, but also of solid analysis of a maddeningly complicated era.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Between scholarly work and storytelling, the book gives us high drama. . . . A strong, entertaining, and occasionall...

-Titulo Original : Such Good Girls The Journey Of The Holocausts Hidden Child Survivors-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries-among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II-who went on to lead remarkable lives in New York City.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist. Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors. Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her family in the home of Dutch strangers before becoming a psychotherapist and key player in the creation of an international organization of hidden child survivors.In braiding the stories of three women who defied death by learning to be “such good girls,” Rosen examines a silent and silenced generation-the last living cohort of Holocaust survivors. He provides rich, memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children who, as adults, were determined to deny Hitler any more victories, and he recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown-up “hiding places” and finally brought them together. Review “Rosen…tells the story of these women and the varied community of survivors with sensitivity and genuine affection.” - Library JournalR.D. Rosen has performed an essential service to both memory and understanding. The three women at the heart of Such Good Girls have lived remarkable lives, and Rosen has limned them with both empathy and grace. - Daniel Orkent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition“In the always harrowing and inspiring literature of Survival, R.D. Rosen’s Such Good Girls makes a poignant and well-told contribution...The ‘good girls’ of this riveting tale pulled off the improbable, which he conveys with talent, warmth, and great humanity.” - Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham and Second Hand Smoke“The first book that delves into the lesser-known aspect of children in hiding and the aftermath of the war years. Richly anecdotal, it reveals what it was like to become someone else-for a while-and then back again to whom one was meant to be.” - Myriam Abramowicz, co-director of As If It Were Yesterday“R.D. Rosen has written about Jewish girls hidden in plain sight during the holocaust with such compassion and precision that his beautifully crafted words give a new voice to an unspeakable time. Such Good Girls is a story you will not forget.” - Betsy Carter, author of The Puzzle King“R.D. Rosen proves a deft chronicler of the uncertainty, upheaval and turmoil experienced by his subjects…Most powerful of all, he makes us see how the Holocaust’s hidden children succeeded against the odds not just once, by surviving, but twice, through the resonant new lives they subsequently forged.” - Wall Street Journal“I was completely hooked. A superb book. Rosen writes beautifully. I wish it could be read by everyone.” - Jeffrey Masson, author of When Elephants WeepThere is a mystery at the heart of this First Steps-why we walk on two legs? The reader is hugely rewarded for the time spent with Jerry DeSilva in untangling the answers to that big and challenging question. - Inside Higher Ed From the Back Cover Sophie Turner Zaretsky survived the Holocaust without even knowing she was Jewish, while her terrified, widowed mother worked for a Nazi in Poland as a Christian bookkeeper. Flora Hogman, orphaned by the Final Solution, was shuttled through southern France, from convents to the homes of one Christian family a...

-Titulo Original : Moscow 1812 Napoleons Fatal March-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russias Tsar Alexanders help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to teach him a lesson by intimidation and force. The ensuing invasion of Russia, during the frigid winter of 1812, would mark the beginning of the end of Napoleons empire. Although his army captured Moscow after a brutal march deep into hostile territory, it was a hollow victory for the demoralized troops. Napoleons men were eventually turned back, and their defeat was a momentous turning point in world affairs. Dramatic, insightful, and enormously absorbing, Moscow 1812 is a masterful work of history. Review “Adam Zamoyski’s account of the 1812 campaign is so brilliant that it is impossible to put the book aside.” - Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Times“A harrowing account. ... Utterly admirable. It combines clarity of thought and prose with a strong narrative drive.” - Antony Beevor, The Daily Telegraph“Told with vigor, sweep, and insight, Moscow 1812 brings this epic moment to life in a thoroughly fascinating way.” - Jay Winik, author of April 1865“Zamoyski elegantly delivers gripping storytelling, bold revisionism, and poignant suffering.” - Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Evening Standard“Hundreds of books have been written about Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Moscow 1812 is perhaps the best.” - John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London“Powerful. . . . Brilliant. Zamoyski’s exposition of the 1812 campaign is a model of elegant clarity.” - T.J. Binyon, The Sunday Telegraph“A brilliant, chilling account.” - Ed Vulliamy, The Observer About the Author Adam Zamoyski was born in New York and educated at Oxford. He is the author of Moscow 1812. He lives in London. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Moscow 1812Napoleons Fatal MarchBy Zamoyski, AdamPerennialISBN: 006108686XChapter OneCaesarAs the first cannon shot thundered out from the guns drawn up before the Invalides on the morning of 20 March 1811, an extraordinary silence fell over Paris. Wagons and carriages came to a standstill, pedestrians halted, people appeared at their windows, schoolboys looked up from their books. Everyone began to count as the discharges succeeded each other at a measured pace. In the stables of the Ecole Militaire, the cavalry of the Guard were grooming their horses. Suddenly, the sound of a gun from the Invalides stopped every arm, suspended every movement; brushes and curry-combs hung in the air, according to one young Chasseur. In the midst of this multitude of men and horses, you could have heard a mouse stir.As news had spread on the previous evening that the Empress had gone into labour, many patrons had given their workmen the next day off, and these swarmed expectantly in the streets around the Tuileries palace. The Paris Bourse had ceased dealing that morning, and the only financial transactions taking place were bets on the sex of the child. But the excitement was just as great among those who had nothing riding on it.It would be difficult to imagine with what anxiety the first cannon shots were counted, recalled one witness: everyone knew that twentyone would announce the birth of a girl, and one hundred that of a boy. A profound silence reigned until the twenty-first, but when the twenty-second roared forth, there was an explosion of congratulation and cheering which rang out simultaneously in every part of Paris. People went wild, embracing total strangers and shouting Vive lEmpereur! Others danced in the streets as the remaining seventyeight shots thundered out in a rolling barrage.Paris had never, even on the greatest holidays, offered a picture of more general joyfulness, noted another witness; there was celebration everywhere. A balloon went up, bearing into the sky the celebrated aeronaut Madame Bla...

-Titulo Original : Visiting Tom A Man, A Highway, And The Road To Roughneck Grace-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.”-St. Paul Pioneer Press“Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.”-Seattle TimesTuesdays with Morrie meets Bill Bryson in Visiting Tom, another witty, poignant, and stylish paean to living in New Auburn, Wisconsin, from Michael Perry. The author of Population: 485, Coop, and Truck: A Love Story, Perry takes us along on his uplifting visits with his octogenarian neighbor one valley over-and celebrates the wisdom, heart, and sass of a vanishing generation that embodies the indomitable spirit of small-town America. Review “Drop whatever you are doing and sit down to read Michael Perry’s Visiting Tom….Perry is a craftsman of the highest order….When you go back to doing what you were doing when you picked up this book, you might just see your world with a broader, more humane perspective.” - New York Journal of Books“Warmhearted….engaging….down-to-earth and genuine.” - Kirkus Reviews“Funnier than Keillor.” - MinnPost“Visiting Tom is more than just a whimsical portrait of a unique character. It’s a meditation on modernity and self-reliance that sneaks up on you with its unexpected depth.” - Capital Times“Charming and humorous.” - Booklist“Michael Perry writes the words that create the memoirs that make so many of us want to raise chickens and pigs, plant a few rows of corn or otherwise just make hay. Mostly, though, he makes us want to get to know our neighbors better - no matter where we live.” - Experience Wisconsin Magazine“The portrait Mr. Perry paints...is of a place and a life that is worth noting….His writing is beautiful and immediate and elegant.” - Wall Street Journal“[Perry] is a sharp and empathetic observer.” - Journal Sentinel“In Visiting Tom, a story that melds Perry’s unique humor with notes of Garrison Keillor and Billy Bryson, the elderly man’s tenderness and character jump off the page as he shares his thoughts on life and love.” - Express Milwaukee“It’s part memoir, part character piece. There’s a bit of the poetic to it. It’s about fighting bureaucracy, Foxfire-ish self-sustenance, life the ‘old timer’s’ way, and male-bonding foolishness. It’s about fatherhood, marriage and love. And it’s just about one of the sweetest books you’ll ever read.” - Daily Sparks Tribune From the Back Cover From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life.What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit-often with his young daughters in tow-author Michael Perry finds out.Toiling in his shop, Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and-now and then-batches of potentially “extralegal” explosives. Tom, who is approaching his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, and is famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A and an antiauthoritarian streak refreshed daily by the interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps more than eight million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man’s equanimity and ultimately-when he and Perry converse as husbands and the fathers of daughters-unvarnished tenderness.“PERRY’S the real thing.” -USA Today About the Author Michael Perry is a humorist, radio host, songwriter, and the New York Times bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Visiting Tom and Population: 485, as well as a novel, The Jesus Cow. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family and can be ...

-Titulo Original : Prince Albert The Man Who Saved The Monarchy-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince AlbertFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, its values, and its paradoxes, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain’s transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary center of political, technological, scientific, and intellectual advancement. Far more than just the product of his age, Albert was one of its influencers and architects. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist, and bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a “genius.” It is impossible to understand nineteenth century England without knowing the story of this gifted visionary leader, Wilson contends.Albert lived only forty-two years. Yet in that time, he fathered the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, Spain, and Bulgaria. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers pioneered the idea of the modern constitutional monarchy. In this sweeping biography, Wilson demonstrates that there was hardly any aspect of British national life which Albert did not touch. When he was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in his late twenties, it was considered as purely an honorific role. But within months, Albert proposed an extensive reorganization of university life in Britain that would eventually be adopted, making it possible to study science, languages, and modern history at British universities-a revolution in education that has changed the world.Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert’s voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, Prince Albert, at last, gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition that is long overdue. Review “Was ‘Victorian’ England in fact shaped less by Queen Victoria than by her husband, Prince Albert? This biography makes the case for his underrated genius and lasting influence.” - New York Times Book Review, New and Noteworthy“A magnificently understanding biography of Victoria’s spouse….Albert led a brief life-dying at age 42-but his impact on his adopted homeland, Great Britain, especially on the functioning of the monarchy, was immense, hence the subtitle of this wise new portrait. That is the thesis Wilson develops, comfortably resting his narrative on two legs: complete thoroughness and joyful buoyancy.” - Booklist (starred review)“Readers interested in British historyand royals will appreciate this accessible, well-researched study of an admired leader.” - Library Journal“An engrossing biography that continues the author’s long engagement with the Victorian age….Mr. Wilson makes good use of documents from the period and has consulted experts, particularly on details having to do with Albert’s German background. His most striking contribution, though, is a psychologically astute approach to Victoria and Albert, one that results in a persuasive and humane account of their marriage.” - Wall Street JournalFor those impassioned by all things Victoriana, A.N. Wilson’s generously detailed biography of the iconic British sovereign’s beloved husband, Albert, brings long-overdue recognition to a complex, brilliant and even tragic figure in history. - Bookreporter From the Back Cover In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert on the two hundredth anniversary of the royal consort’s birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great empire at the height of its po...

-Titulo Original : Provided You Dont Kiss Me Pb-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Provided You Dont Kiss M...

-Titulo Original : Moranthology-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire)Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks-and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned.Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on-and sometimes interviewing-subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes. From Booklist The truth will set you free, some say. In Moran’s case, it will make you guffaw. The British columnist is nothing if not bracingly honest, from her commentaries on Keith Richards (everything he says is “in the cadence of Pirate”) to her own sartorial insecurities (“I need to know if I look like some manner of ‘Lady Ace Ventura-Pet Detective’”). In this follow-up to How to Be a Woman (2012), Moran once again opines on American and British pop culture, touting Ghostbusters as the greatest film of all time (against which Star Wars doesn’t stand a chance) and BBC smash hit Sherlock as the television program that puts all others to shame. (It doesn’t hurt that its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, is a total hunk.) Moran has some serious moments, too, including a paean to the power of local libraries-“cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.” This witty and wise collection is sure to expand Moran’s fan base on this side of the pond. --Allison Block Review “Caitlin Moran is not only hilarious, sharply intelligent and so much more than a ‘shit Dickens or Orwell, but with tits’; she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today.” - Abby OReilly, The Independent“A brilliant follow-up to How to Be a Woman….If you are a fan of common sense, comic writing and pop culture, buy [Moranthology] immediately.” - Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times“[Moran’s] skill as an interviewer lies not in the killer question but in the way she conveys being there and messing it up. She is gleeful and rueful and on the money.” - Claudia FitzHerbert, The Spectator“Moranthology is a merry ramble on anything and everything. A diffuse collection allows Moran to show off her strengths: a broad range of interests, an almost canine enthusiasm, and a love of the world and its people that radiates from every page. - Malena Watrous, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review“In Moranthology, a collection of [Moran’s] greatest hits, she has full rein to unleash a barrage of scorchingly funny and uncensored opinions on the rest of the known universe.” - Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair Best Books of the Year“Fans of Ms. Moran will be especially pleased that all the pith and wit about How to Be a Woman remain on display in Moranthology.” - Rachel Hurn, Wall Street Journal“The truth will set you free, some say. In Moran’s case, it will make you guffaw… This witty and wise collection is sure to expand Moran’s fan base on this side of the pond.” - Allison Block, Booklist From the Back Cover The follow-up to Caitlin Morans breakout hit, How to Be a Woman-A hilarious collection of award-winning columns, available to American readers for the first time ever.Possibly the only drawback to the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Mo...

-Titulo Original : The Sum Of Our Days A Memoir (p.s.)-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory—and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family. Review “THE SUM OF OUR DAYS is terrific. It’s funny, insightful, moving and filled with Allende’s unique voice.” - USA Today“...Ms.Allende...executes this epistolary memoir with the same authenticity and poetry that grace her fiction...Ms. Allende is a survivor worth reading and emulating.” - Dallas Morning News“A vibrant voice, which is at once introspective and forthright…an inspiring and thought-provoking work…The insights resonate, on page after page.” - Denver Post“Allende’s THE SUM OF OUR DAYS adds up to an exuberant love letter not only to her daughter, but to her tribe and anyone lucky enough to belong to one.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch“A powerful memoir” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer“A deeply revealing memoir . . . Allende’s insight is keen, her prose polished and her language hypnotic . . . This is a book to savor.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A warm meditation on family and love…A book to be savored and reread.” - Kirkus Reviews“Allende’s trademark magical realism is ever present...This high-spirited, emotionally packed book enables readers to get a closer look at the life of a much-loved writer.” - Library Journal“Allende is a genius.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review From the Back Cover In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory-and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family. About the Author Isabel Allende is the author of twelve works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, Ines of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, and a novel that has become a world-renowned classic, The House of the Spirits. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, she lives in California...

-Titulo Original : Jungleland A Mysterious Lost City And A True Story Of Deadly Adventure (p.s.)-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: For fans of The Lost City of Z, The River of Doubt, and Lost in Shangri-La-a real-life Indiana Jones story, set in the mysterious jungles of Honduras.I began to daydream about the jungle....On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him.Deep inside “the little Amazon,” the jungles of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast-one of the largest, wildest, and most impenetrable stretches of tropical land in the world-lies the fabled city of Ciudad Blanca: the White City. For centuries, it has lured explorers, including Spanish conquistador Herman Cortes. Some intrepid souls got lost within its dense canopy; some disappeared. Others never made it out alive. Then, in 1939, Theodore Morde claimed that he had located this El Dorado-like city. Yet before he revealed its location, Morde died under strange circumstances, giving credence to those who believe that the spirits of the Ciudad Blanca killed him.In Jungleland, Christopher S. Stewart seeks to retrace Mordes steps and answer the questions his death left hanging. Is this lost city real or only a tantalyzing myth? What secrets does the jungle hold? What continues to draw explorers into the unknown jungleland at such terrific risk? In this absorbing true-life thriller, journalist Christopher S. Stewart sets out to find answers-a white-knuckle adventure that combines Morde’s wild, enigmatic tale with Stewart’s own epic journey to find the truth about the White City. Review “A fascinating and gripping account, a true to life Indiana Jones adventure.” - Douglas Preston“This stunning book takes you deep into the jungles of Honduras, telling a story that explains all of Europe’s adventures on this side of the world: the quest for a lost city full of gold, a search that, in theend, reveals the treasure to be the journey itself. ” - Rich Cohen“A bold attempt to solve the mystery of the White City of Honduras and finish the work of a World War II spy.… a rip-snorting journey… Readers who loved ‘The Lost City of Z’ have found their next great true adventure.” - Mitchell Zuckoff“A tale for the ages.” - Mark Adams“I dare you to put this book down.” - Evan Wright“A great revival of an older genre, the treasure hunt, and associated adventures.” - Kirkus Reviews“The premise is so fantastic that if Jungleland were a novel, you could be forgiven for worrying that it might be a bit pulpy or cliched…The fact that this is all true turns the story from one of intrigue and odyssey into one of anthropological significance as well.” - Daily Beast“The true story [of] Jungleland resembles nothing so much as the set-up for one of H. Rider Haggard’s old pulp adventure novels.…Stewart is a crisp, lean, colorful stylist, with that essential knack: a nose for punchy, telling anecdotes and images…great fun to read.” - Laura Miller, Salon“[T]his is a gritty, remarkable tale of exploration and risk in a nervy trek to the edge of civilization.” - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) From the Back Cover Armed with the personal notebooks of the mysterious World War II spy Theodore Morde, an adventurer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, journalist Christopher S. Stewart sets out in search of the lost White City, buried somewhere deep in the Mosquito Coast of Honduras. Stewart pieces together the whirlwind life and peculiar death of Morde, who sailed around the world five times before turning thirty, as he tries to verify Mordes claim of having discovered the Lost City of the Monkey God.In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Lost in Shangri-La, Jungleland is in part a classic tale of man versus wild as well as a story of young fatherhood and a meditation on the timeless call of adventure-an epic search for answers in a place where nothing is guaranteed, least of all survival. About the Author Christopher S. Stewart is an invest...

-Titulo Original : Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt The Story Of A Mother And A Daughter In The ‘gilded Age’-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother - then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette.Consuelo Vanderbilt was one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th-century, a glittering prize for suitors on both sides of the Atlantic. When she married, a crowd of over 2,000 onlookers gathered, and newspapers frenziedly reported every detail of the event, right down to the bridal underwear. Even by the standards of the day the glamorous, eighteen-year-old had made an outstanding match: she had ensnared the twenty-four-year-old Duke of Marlborough, the most eligible peer in Great Britain.Yet the bride’s swollen face, barely hidden under the veil, presaged the unhappiness that lay in the couple’s painful twelve-year future. It was not Consuelo, but her domineering mother who had forced the marriage through. This captivating biography tells of the lives of mother and daughter: the story of the fairytale wedding and its nightmarish aftermath, and an account of how both women went on to dedicate their lives to the dramatic fight for women’s rights, in the light of their own suffering. Review ‘Skilfully and sympathetically told by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart…It is brilliant…Mackenzie Stuart has treated us to some marvellous vignettes of life at Blenheim in the “Gilded Age”.’ Antonia Fraser, The Times‘A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography…completely absorbing.’ Amanda Foreman‘It moves, entertains and intrigues.’ Independent on Sunday‘[…]an intelligent, insightful and highly readable book about the gilded cage of aristocratic marriage.’ Daily Mail‘The story of Consuelo and Alva has everything: glamour, money, gossip, intrigue and pathos.’ Harpers & Queen About the Author Amanda Mackenzie Stuart was born in Edinburgh in 1954. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she spent the first part of her career as a scientific filmmaker before joining Renegade Films in 1992.Screenwriting projects include a television mini-series adapted from Divided Loyalties by Janet Teissier du Cros and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Her musical biography of Broadway lyricist Dorothy Fields was produced by HMR Productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999 starring singer Morag Maclaren. She also co-wrote and co-produced Khaled El Hagars Room to Rent released in 2000, starring Rupert Graves, Juliette Lewis and Anna Massey.‘Consuelo and Alva’ is her first book...

-Titulo Original : Biomimicry Innovation Inspired By Nature-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Repackaged with a new afterword, this valuable and entertaining (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting natures best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study natures most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when theyre sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future. From the Back Cover This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature’s best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells - and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting-edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they’re sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low-maintenance agriculture; and more. About the Author Janine M. Benyus is the author of four books in the life sciences, including Beastly Behaviors: A Watchers Guide to How Animals Act and Why. She is a graduate of Rutgers with degrees in forestry and writing and has lectured widely on science topics. She lives in Stevensville, Montana...

-Titulo Original : Small Is Beautiful Economics As If People Mattered (harper Perennial Modern Thought)-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: This New York Times bestselling “Eco Bible” (Time magazine) teaches us that economic growth must be responsibly balanced with the needs of communities and the environment. “Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time. Small is Beautiful could not be more relevant. It was first published in 1973, but it was written for our time.” - Bill McKibben, from the ForewordSmall Is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as “Buy Locally” and “Fair Trade,” while voicing strong opposition to “casino capitalism” and wasteful corporate behemoths. Named one of the Times Literary Supplement’s 100 Most Influential Books Since World War II, Small Is Beautiful presents eminently logical arguments for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations. Review “Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time. Small is Beautiful could not be more relevant. It was first published in 1973, but it was written for our time.” - Bill McKibben, from the Foreword“An eco-bible.” - Time magazine“Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom. Economists, Schumacher says, have established material growth as the most important measure of social progress. . . . Schumacher believes economists need a new set of values . . . to obtain maximum well-being with minimum consumption. - Newsweek“Small Is Beautiful changed the way many people think about bigness and its human costs.” - New York Times“Schumacher articulated truths that a funamentally true regardless of time, culture, or prevailing economic system . . . Small Is Beautiful is and always has been one of those rare books--a book that can inform a lifetime.” - Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism From the Back Cover Small Is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as “Buy Locally” and “Fair Trade,” while voicing strong opposition to “casino capitalism” and wasteful corporate behemoths. Named one of the Times Literary Supplement’s 100 Most Influential Books Since World War II, Small Is Beautiful presents eminently logical arguments for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations. About the Author Born in Germany, Dr. E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) fled to England after the rise of Nazism and, with the help of John Maynard Keynes, taught economics at Oxford University. He is the author of Small Is Beautiful, the book that changed the way many people think about bigness and its human cost (New York Times)...

-Titulo Original : An Empire Of Wealth The Epic History Of American Economic Power-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nations global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Review “Impressive. ... A deft, lively handling of an ambitious project that would have daunted almost any other writer.” - Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton About the Author John Steele Gordon is a columnist for American Heritage and the author of A Thread Across the Ocean, The Great Game, Hamiltons Blessing, and The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in North Salem, New York...