"At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but she felt that something insider her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we'd like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg...

A profile of the early-twentieth-century British king discusses how he disappointed his mother, Queen Victoria, with his notorious gambling, gluttony, and womanizing before his nine-year reign, during which he became an effective leader and diplomat.

From her decade-long courtship with Prince William, to their fairy-tale wedding and rejuvenation of the monarchy, Kate Middleton has enchanted the public and media alike. How has this once shy, middle-class girl made such an effortless transition from commoner to royal? Nicholl brings her fascinating story to life, in order to reveal the truth about her past, her friends, her family, and, most crucially, the decisions she has made along the way that...

"Hillary Clinton is running for president as an advocate of women and girls, but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up until now. This stunning expose reveals for the first time how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women and others sexually, physically, and psychologically in their scramble for power and wealth,"--NoveList.

It's 1891, Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti in order to rediscover his painting, far from the moral, political, and visual codes of civilized Europe. He goes deep into the jungle, managing solitude, poverty, and sickness. He meets Tehura, who will become his wife, and the theme of his greatest paintings.

In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, a down-to-earth newspaperman charms a sophisticated New York author while their long path to real love has us cheering them on as well as itching for a visit to Frankie's place on idyllic Mount Desert Island.

"Few people can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them. Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she traveled to Cuba where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro. Yet upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate Fidel. Torn by love and loyalty, she couldn't...

The story of the Nabokovs, he famous for the novel, Lolita, she for being his muse, translator, editor, accountant, even typist. But above all she was his soulmate, a fact he recognized by dedicating every book to her. By the author of Saint-Exupery.

Presents a humorous collection of stories about the author's relationships with the opposite sex told chronologically, from his first kiss to getting engaged.

Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.