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Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone until a little black dress turns her loose, and suddenly she's surrendering to her dark desires, with New York City as her playground.

At twenty-two, a naïve Midwesterner, Adrienne Miller got a lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ. The mid-nineties were still the golden age of print journalism, and a publication like GQ then seemed the red-hot center of the literary world, even if their sensibilities were manifestly mid-century-the martinis, the male egos, and the unquestioned authority of kings. Still, Adrienne learned to hold her own in a man's world,...

The biographer reflects upon her own life, from discovering books as a form of escapism during her parents' divorce to mingling in the London literary scene of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies.

The summer of 1964 certainly was eventful, but it's nothing compared to what's coming to the Brooke family and to Hollyhill, Kentucky. David finally gets up the nerve to pop the question to Leigh and wedding plans are in the making. But the past is coming to call on many in Hollyhill, threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people--one David thought was gone for good and the other no one's ever heard of--are...

Myanmar, shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century. After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement. Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat...

"You've Got Mail meets Attachments in Melissa Ferguson's latest sweet rom-com"--

From a celebrated figure of the food world comes a poignant, provocative memoir about being young and gay during the 1970s punk revolution in America Long before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the pre-Silicon Valley, California, suburbs, yearning for a taste of something wild. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of the punk movement, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and embarked on a journey...

At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror,...

"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.

Llegar al mar. Las sílabas imitan la repetición del oleaje y su misterio, anuncian un paisaje entrañable en el horizonte, nos sitúan al pie de una aventura escrita en los espacios en blanco de la vida diaria -esos que la imaginación y la casualidad llenan con Sorpresas e invenciones. El aniversario personal, la novedad literaria, las presencias que van y vienen a compás de la querencia y la memoria, la relectura de los clásicos, el paseo por...