Pippi Longstocking
Triplet Trouble and the Runaway Reindeer
Mary Boleyn : the Mistress of Kings
Library Journal Having explored the final days of Anne Boleyn in The Lady in the Tower, popular historian Weir now turns her attention to Anne's sister Mary. Briefly the mistress of the French king Francis I and later of Henry VIII, Mary eventually wed a commoner for love and faded into relative obscurity—until Philippa Gregory's […]
Living With What You Love
Donated anonymously. Famed portrait photographer Monica Rich Kosann has spent a career helping people add a final layer of personality to their home once the interior designer’s work is done. Monica’s clients—celebrities, designers, socialites—want to find ways to add warmth and love to rooms, celebrating what they cherished most—be it family, pets, jewelry, books, or […]
An Immense World
The Class Clown
On the Hippie Trail
That Used to Be Us : How America Fell Behind In the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
The New York Times Book Review – David Frum …a book that is at once enlightened and enlightening. Friedman—not that you need me to tell you this—is a very good reporter…The partnership with Mandelbaum has been fruitful, curbing Friedman's notorious verbal excesses and stiffening the book with extra analytic rigor
A Stolen Life : a Memoir
The New York Times – Janet Maslin There are novelists, most notably Emma Donoghue in Room, who have tried to imagine what a plight like this is like. There are tabloids that have capitalized on its obscenity. And there are far too many survivors of ghastly crimes who have told their stories in lurid terms […]