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A tale of love and conquest, "full of page-turning situations...worthy of a Garcia Lorca drama" (San Francisco Chronicle).

"An absorbing and enjoyable book."-New York Times Book Review

"Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian."-Mike Davis

A candid account of one of America's most provocative filmmakers that belongs on the shelf of any serious movie lover.

A tensely emotional debut novel of abandonment, loss, and the unexpected shapes families take to survive. "Silver is masterful at orchestrating her complicated cast of characters and settings....Moving and resonant."-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A perspective on love and loss [that] will haunt you for days."-Entertainment Weekly

An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations; even in the face of tragedy.

"A beautiful, painful book about religion, family, sex, and loss."-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club

Joseph Roth's essays from "Report from a Parisian Paradise" evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise, but also contain a vision of a conflagration that could not be averted. Roth's book is a swan song to a European order that could no longer hold.

"A collection of short stories that makes it possible to be proud to be human."-Carolyn See, Washington Post

"Beautifully written, utterly felt, it will enrich all who read it."-Anna Quindlen

Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."-Andrea Barrett

"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."-George Kennan

In this fusion of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, Richard Sennett addresses the need and social responsibility for respect in the uncertain world of "flexible" relationships.

"An engrossing narrative" (Wall Street Journal) that does for evolutionary biology what The Double Helix did for DNA.

"Wonderfully wicked....A bracingly sensible guide to living peaceably together."-Francine Prose, Elle

For every college graduate-the savvy, witty, comprehensive survival guide to getting on your feet in the Real World.

The book you need to make the right decisions and get good care from diagnosis through treatment.

A love story and a journey across the continents of marriage.

"[A] touching picaresque journey through the deserts of the west and the landscape of memory."-Washington Post Book World

Dr. Ricciotti of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and her husband chef Connelly share their secrets for making family meals a time of joy and good eating. Also included is the latest nutritional advice for babies, children, and adults.

A New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, the critical success of Babe in Paradise heralds Marisa Silver as one of America's most talented young writers.

"An engaging and unusual perspective on the no-man's land between mathematics and the law."-John Allen Paulos

"Full of shrewd observations on creativity, friendship, and love, [this is] a book, in other words, about life."-American Way

"Luminous...Each [story] is rich and independent and beautiful and should draw Barrett many new admirers."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

Named after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, always fascinatingly incomplete.

How corporate greed and mismanagement ate the American dream.

"No sociologist now writing is able to capture and describe American manners and morals better than Alan Wolfe."-David Brooks

"A must for every armchair cosmic voyager."-Science News

Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, "Dark Horses and Black Beauties" delves beneath shallow hypotheses to look at how this communication with horses opens women up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world. Illustrations.