The Cookbook Collector

Author

Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....

Author

Julia Glass

In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy...

Author	Lynn Sherr
ISBN	1610390466

Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It’s...

Author	Barbara Taylor Bradford
ISBN	0440235146

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past....

Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best...

Author	Rosanne Cash
ISBN	0670021962

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence. Now, in her...

Author	Luis Sepúlveda
ISBN	8877469889

L'avventura e la politica, l'amore e la guerra, il viaggio e l'utopia. Tutto Sepulveda con le sue passioni e i suoi temi più cari, rappresentati in questo libro che raccoglie 24 racconti dello scrittore cileno. L'appuntamento d'amore tra un sandinista che combatte in Nicaragua contro la dittatura...