"A tantalizing aperitif?a confection of a book." —Cleveland Plain Dealer "One of the best reads of the season." —Billy Norwich, Vogue In Party of the Century, Deborah Davis transports readers back to the Oz-like splendor of New York in ...

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For history buffs and history-phobes alike, this book is packed with memorable facts that will change your understanding of the highest office in the land and the men who have occupied it.

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

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Watanuki is Yuko's unwilling assistant, but even he is compelled by the fascinating adventures he's had since he started working for the "space-time witch.

In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone’s must-read list.

Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should ...

This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works ...