DescriptionLife just keeps getting more complicated for Annie Baker. Her sister Lizzie is pregnant and wants Annie to be her birth partner; her friend Leila's got a new man and is getting heavily into yoga; and Kate from the village has somehow ended up having an affair with her own ex-husband. Charlie, Annie's six-year-old, is now officially pagan and desperate for his own pet pheasant. And then there's Uncle Monty to keep an eye on. A retired mole-catcher who collects bric-a-brac, he's 82 and a few sandwiches short of a picnic. As if all that wasn't difficult enough, Mack comes back from New York, just when Annie was beginning to think she might be able to cope without him.
DescriptionWomen have been acting like men and living by male rules for far too long. Harriet Rubin proposes a radical movement for women to think and act more like women. As revolutionary as Machiavelli's advice to the prince on using conflict to establish power, Rubin argues that the very abilities which have been undervalued in the male world - the values of nurturing and peacemaking - could be emphasized in a strategy that would make women stronger, more powerful, and more in control of their lives. Rubin has studied the great female heroes, including poets, artists, saints, and social innovators, and distilled their wisdom into this plan of action.
DescriptionIn a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale, young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading of her first novel evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that forms the lens through which she looks at life in the '80s - stardom, drugs, success, sex, and insecurity.
DescriptionIn teeming Victorian London, where wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates a masterpiece of crime - the most daring train robbery of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite - yet nonetheless explosive.
DescriptionThe danger is increasing for Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara, who has been banished to the harsh world called the Forbidding by a treasonous fellow Druid. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Pen, but Pen is under siege as well. Both he and his parents are sought by the Druids, who want to make sure that their magic will never help Grianne to return. Yet no one but Grianne is aware that her banishment into the Forbidding allowed the simultaneous transference of a fearsome denizen of the Forbidding back into Grianne's world, an evil creature that can take on any shape, can kill at will, and is only the harbinger of a much greater, devastating invasion.
