Category: Simon & Schuster
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
“a compelling look at a dynamic trailblazer who broke into a field that was male dominated and leading the way for other women . . .” “When Dana Walters found her husband ashen-faced and unconscious in their hotel bed, his bottle of sleeping pills emptied, she didn’t call an ambulance,” writes author Susan Page in…
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Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes
“even if we never make these dishes of ancient times, Miller’s book is a fascinating read.” “They say ‘history is written by the victors,’ but in my experience, history is written by those who write stuff down, and food is no exception,” writes Max Miller in the introduction to Tasting History, his new cookbook that…
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Mirrorland
Twin sisters, once extremely close when growing up in an eccentric household with a demeaning and scolding mother, alcoholic grandfather, and absent father, are now separated by thousands of miles and endless anger. Cat lives in Los Angeles in an apartment overlooking the water. But it’s not hers, and she’ll have to move soon when…
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Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity
A force of nature in her time, stage actress Charlotte Cushman who played both male andfemale roles, was friends with Abraham Lincoln who admired her work. Indeed, she acted along side both Edwin and John Wilkes Booth and was said to have left a scar on the assassin’s neck that was later used to identify…
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The Pretty One
Born with cerebral palsy, for much of her life Keah Brown longed for normalcy, hating the disability which she believed defined her in the eyes of others as well as herself. “It’s very painful when people treat me differently,” says Brown, author of the recently released The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture,…
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The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean’s newest book, The Library Book (Simon & Schuster, $28), is about a fire and a library but like all things this New York Times bestselling author writes (The Orchid Thief, Rin Tin Tin), it’s so much more. A lover of libraries since she was very young, Orlean had been toying with the idea…
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A Cloud in The Shape of a Girl
Intrigued by the passage of time, the choices we make and the constraints life forces upon us, Jean Thompson, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist author, let a swirl of happenings and thoughts combine to create her latest novel, A Cloud in The Shape of a Girl (Simon & Schuster 2018;…
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Ohio: A Novel
He was a successful journalist, but Stephen Markley says the arc of his career was leading him in a different direction than his ultimate dream—to be a novelist. While many of us would have just continued with the flow of success, Markley instead signed up to attend the Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of…
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