Set in the 1850s, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton speaks to you in a splendidly quirky voice: the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness....

In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....

For years, best selling political commentator Molly Ivins has been sounding the alarm about George W. Bush.

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This was the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constituted a major philosophic revolution.

Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels....

Featuring a Foreword by Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, this collection of independent essays on the future of China explains why the 21st century has been predicted by international media to be China's century.

Reveals the 10 principles used to create a scrapbooking empire.

This book gives people the tools to handle life's most difficult and important conversations.

Born in Persia, she was brought up in Rhodesia. After marrying and divorcing twice, she moved to Britain.

Listeners will experience Amelia Earhart not just as a pilot but also as an educator, social worker, lecturer, businesswoman, and tireless promoter of women’s rights…

Just as alchemists sought to transform lead into gold, we all have the natural ability to transform moments of confusion and emotional pain into insightful clarity...

Just as alchemists sought to transform lead into gold, we all have the natural ability to transform moments of confusion and emotional pain into insightful clarity...

Drawing on her years of experiences coaching clients from top companies worldwide, executive development coach D.A. Benton outlines a proven process for acquiring the style, flair, and credibility needed to make it to the top.

Set against a mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-20th century, "The Falls" explores the American family in crisis.

From one of the top nutritionists in the United States comes a revolutionary diet plan. Based on delicious and healthy combinations of essential fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.

The mystery of how a wealthy New York socialite became a major American novelist is brilliantly explored in this fascinating critical biography, considered by many to be the most perceptive introduction to Edith Wharton’s life and work.

The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many.

This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.

Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the experience of slugging it out over twenty years of living, observing, and coping in Paris.

Here is the unknown Garbo from her troubled childhood in a working-class suburb of Stockholm, in Hollywood where she reigned as the divine star, to her unintentional retirement at age thirty-six.

Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but no funds.

Here are the recently discovered diaries of German businessman John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the 1937 seige of Nanking that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China.

The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.

A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women...

An immensely popular best-seller when published in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton’s first great novel.