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Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand - the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War - and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith.

The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life. This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly...

Jimmy Ford is too young to be a soldier, several years too damn young. But that’s only if you measure life by the number of years it has been lived in. Jimmy is a dreamer, a charming boy, curious about the world outside his small town of Brentwood, Essex. With the intensity of the war surging and his bright, ubiquitous thirst for literature and adventure, Jimmy hatches a plan to make it to the Western Front. Little does he know; it is a day which will change his life forever.

This is not just another biography. For the first time, Jackie O: On the Couch highlights Jackie's life from her own perspective, as imagined by author Dr. Alma Bond, a psychoanalyst and long-time student of Jackie lore. The facts are all historically correct, as are the ideas, the Washington intrigue and politics, and the examination of the role of women in society and in the White House. Jackie speaks of her need to record her story truthfully - to replace the hodgepodge of lies published during her lifetime.

In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women’s education who assumes the right to choose his daughters’ vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city’s dynamic new modern-art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule.

When they were young, at Oxford University, Henry and Gabriel’s love burned hot and bright, and they thought to change the world together until a devastating tragedy ripped them apart. Now, as youth fades away, Henry can no longer stand to see his own reflection in the mirror. All he sees is a sad, tired old man whose body has betrayed him. He craves the touch of another, to feel attractive and vital once more but his obsession with finding a cure for insanity has stolen his life away, and now, his work has taken on a dark and sinister dimension.

It’s 1985. For Janet, Dan, Matt, and Cassie, the internet is just some academic thing in universities. They’re engineers working at 3Com, building their lives in the new frontier of Silicon Valley. Everyone’s watching Microsoft and IBM nervously—will networking be just one more business that they own? A modern woman with means, Janet wades into the deep water of buying her first house, on her own, hiring a handsome contractor, Walt, to remodel. Meanwhile, Matt and his social climbing wife Miriam also hire Walt, on Janet’s recommendation.

Para la aventurera heredera del acero Violeta Warren, la vida es gratificante pero no verdaderamente satisfactoria. Es la estela de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y aunque tiene algunos amigos y un libro misterioso que le hace compañía, Violeta encuentra la vida en el Pittsburgh de 1919 sofocante. Una aventura en Egipto parece la solución que necesita. Desgraciadamente, Violeta no tiene en cuenta la revuelta en curso de los egipcios. Cuando el tren en el que viaja es atacado, aparece una misteriosa figura que la pone a salvo.

When Gray Eagleson remembers the strap, it brings back horrific images of pain, suffering and humiliation in the public school system. Financially strapped and broken-hearted, he decides a trip to Ecuador, the most bio-diverse country on the planet, is exactly what he needs to take his mind off his problems.

17 de febrero de 1916: en plena Gran Guerra, el Príncipe de Asturias, el barco más moderno y lujoso de la próspera naviera Pinillos, zarpa de Barcelona rumbo a Buenos Aires. Una historia inspirada en un hecho real.

In the fourth installment of her On the Couch series, famed female biographer Dr. Alma Bond looks inside the head and life of the presidential frontrunner and informs voters of what she's found.

中国历史的面儿上有数不尽的精彩故事，给今人极大的启迪。英雄打江山讲述的创业智慧，为臣之道反映的职场生存法则，道义和利益面前折射的人性高贵……中國歷史的面兒上有數不盡的精彩故事，給今人極大的啟迪。英雄打江山講述的創業智慧，為臣之道反映的職場生存法則，道義和利益面前折射的人性高貴……