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An explosive, unforgettable look at the FM radio business through the eyes of one of its most colorful and idealistic personalities. Ladd follows the birth, blazing success, and tragic demise of FM free-form radio. "A perceptive book on the corporate takeover of rock. . . . Devastating".--Boston Globe.

A first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an emigre living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother--a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction Set against a backdrop of South Africa's troubled history, natural beauty, and complex contemporary society, "Nature Lessons" is a riveting story of a forty-year-old woman, Kate Jensen, struggling to...

African-American women's lives and relationships are complex and at times, deliciously spicy. So, when two sisters decided to interview over twenty women about relationships, sex, spirituality, and self, the result was a fantastic collection of funny, sassy, and moving vignettes. From Jackie, who still loves to have sex with her husband of 28 years, to Lady, who is considering the pro's and con's of her extramarital affair, to Ayoka, who rec...

When an eccentric English aristocrat dies and leaves his family impoverished, the eldest daughters decide to marry into money to redeem the family fortunes. But nothing turns out quite the way they've planned.

The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide covers everything a modern outdoorsperson needs to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survival and overcoming fear to building a shelter and making it through a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. Every kind of environment--from tropical to desert, aquatic to arctic--is covered. "The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the only source material hike...

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people around her threatens to alienate her entire family. And Celeste allows no one to see how vulnerable she really is. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. Her life, however, is a lie: she has no money...

In his latest soldier's tale, Brady tracks Col. Oliver Cromwell's illustriouscareer from Guadalcanal to Korea.

French women's secrets to being self-possessed, self-satisfied and fully self-expressed.Provocative and practical, lively and intelligent, Entre Nous unlocks the mystery of the French girl and the secrets of her self-possession. Why do French women always look inimitably stylish? How do they manage to sit in a café for a three-course lunch and a glass of wine...by themselves? What gives them the certainty that allows them to refuse anything--w...

Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the '70s, "An Egg on Three Sticks" is Jackie Moyer Fischer's emotional, funny, and extraordinarily heartfelt novel about Abby's struggle to hold her family together, find love from a mother who has lit...

When Claire and Brooke lose their jobs when their company downsizes, they start their own business and find the path to success and happiness can be a rocky one indeed.

For both Atkins veterans and new recruits, this guide focuses on finding an individual's ideal weight and staying with it.

A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available today, these original essays provide both practical guidance for building a library and deep insight into the transcendent power of music itself.

Unlike previous Tagore collections that focus on a single genre, Dutta and Robinson's anthology offers a full range of Tagore's talents--a play, poems, songs, a novel, selections from his memoirs, travel writings, and essays--in one graceful volume.

Astrologer Jill Dearman writes a hilariously irreverent yet compelling astrological guide that provides lesbians with the personable traits of possible mates.

Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker Prize finalist, "Quarantine" is a controversial tale of faith and mystery about a group of desert travelers and their encounter with Jesus.

For career criminal William Clarke Quantrill, the American Civil War was an opportunity to practice legitimately what he loved most: theft, destruction, and murder. He rampaged freely as a military hero, slaughtering hundreds, fighting under the flag of the Confederate Army. This definitive biography presents a richly drawn study of this most unlikely "hero". of photos.

In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running "New York Times" column, another group of contemporary literature's finest voices muse on the challenges and gifts of language and creativity. Contributors include Elmore Leonard, Arthur Miller, Amy Tan and Edmund White.

All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior---a Wolfskin---and carry honor out in the name of his fathergod, Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. The chance to make it happen is his when his chieftain, Ulf, is brought the tale of a magical land across the sea, a place where men with courage can go to conquer a land and bring glory to themselves. They set out to find this fabled land and discover a windswept and ...

Roberts pens a revealing view of America and its people at the turn of the century and masterfully creates a compelling guided tour of the places, personalities, and politics that will shape 21st-century America.

A "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearA "Publisher's Weekly" Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position, " and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.