White Mischief
The Children
The Botany of Desire : a Plant's Eye View of the World
More than Enough
Olive Kitteridge
The New Yorker: The whitecaps in the harbor, some familiar piano chords, the doughnut a man brings to his wife after visiting his lover?Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force. These linked stories introduce the inhabitants of Crosby, Maine, where the pull of domestic tragedy is stronger for rarely being spoken of. Angela doesn?t […]
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons : a Journey Among the Women of India
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Heyday
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In this utterly engaging novel, the author of Turn of the Century brings 19th-century America vividly to life, but first he takes us to revolutionary Paris. There, as a bystander, young English gentleman Benjamin Knowles inadvertently causes the death of a policeman. The policeman's enraged older brother swears vengeance and […]
Sisters
Publishers Weekly Four stunningly beautiful Connecticut-bred sisters pursue their disparate careers in prolific Steel's (H.R.H.) latest. There's Candy, 21, a supermodel with an eating disorder, on location in Paris; Annie, 26, a RISD-grad studying painting in Florence; Tammy, at 29 an L.A. TV producer with a new hit and no life; and Sabrina, 34, a […]
Made to Stick : Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Publishers Weekly: Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness" that is, […]