"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years...

In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life—the Roaring Twenties—when Broadway the street exploded into...

"[A] charmingly bittersweet memoir." — The Boston Globe New York Times Book Review This memoir of youth should be appreciated not only by adults who grew up through the fires of their own youthful rebellion, but by those restless young...

After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by...

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The first biography of Lillian Hellman-the notorious literary star of Broadway and Hollywood-written with the full cooperation of her executors and her most intimate circle Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian...

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One book that “won’t let you down”...

Now in paperback — published to coincide with the release of her new album — Grammy winner and #1 recording artist Ashanti shares her very personal collection of poems and stories about love.Bestselling recording artist Ashanti stormed the pop charts...

My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said, writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open...