"When Piglet's fiancé reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day"--

A "deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing" book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review).
In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy,...

Freelance book editor Mikki Lincoln knows the makings of a well-written story. But she'll need to choose her words wisely when a new assignment introduces a deadly plot twist . . . Forgotten on the outskirts of quaint Lenape Hollow, Feldman's Catskill Resort Hotel has outlasted its heyday as a popular tourist destination and now awaits demolition. But once Mikki is hired to edit a revealing memoir by Sunny Feldman, the last living relative of its...

"An honest, witty, and insightful memoir about what happens when your coming-of-age comes later than expected, from the co-host of the hit podcast Forever35. Doree Shafrir was one of Gawker's early hires and one of the first editors at BuzzFeed; at both sites, she authored countless viral articles. Just before she turned forty, she published her first novel, and one year later, she quit her journalism career and co-launched Forever35, a wildly successful...

A true story. Fast-paced. Immersive. The definitive parable of everything Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes readers on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency...

El trabajo, la amistad, el dinero, el mercado, la fidelidad, la polémica y la literatura. Todos estos factores que intervienen de un modo u otro en el ecosistema del libro se conjugan en estas memorias de Guilermo Schavelzon para recorrer, a través de sus recuerdos y encuentros con autores como Ricardo Piglia, Augusto Roa Bastos, Mario Benedetti, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Máquez, Beatriz Guido, Quino, Juan José Saer, Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska,...

This companion to A Curious Mind includes: • Overview of the book • Character Analysis • A Discussion on Themes • and much more!

Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family's hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder, taut moments when the community teetered on the edge of mob violence that ended well because of courageous civic leadership and wise hearts of black...

Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.

"Estos son los bienes que heredo de mi familia por línea de sangre: pazos de artritis, tapias de sordera, latifundios de miopía, secanos de calvicie, orejas de soplillo como blasón y tendencia a discutir a gritos en nuestros Consejos de Administración que son las comidas familiares. Pero lo que más valoro es la inmunidad a las ideologías. Creo que eso salda a mi favor el balance del peso tétrico del patrimonio familiar." Soto Ivars.