A memoir of a mind, ravaged and rebuilt.
A novel of Belle Époque Paris, through the eyes of a dancer-turned-studio-muse.
Room Service Confidential: a hotelier's tell-all.
How an English church was transformed into a work of highly personal art.
A Mediterranean quest combines with a philosophic take on aging.
A century of ambition and bloodshed in Colonial America.
A reader looks back over a trailblazing year in novels for teens.
The comedic icon of the silent film era unspools the drama of a suitably dramatic life -- in his own voice.
A familiar heroic formula gets a quirky twist from the author of The Eyre Affair.
A mystery of the City of Light in the Jazz Age.
A novelist's defense of paper and pen.
A novel of Germany during the rise of the Nazis -- and banned by Hitler's regime.
Three authors of fantasy and science-fiction for young readers take on the future of motherhood.
A biblical miracle is recast as an episode in the story of a long and unusual friendship.
There was victory in Europe and the Pacific; but the big screen told the story of an anxious nation.