The New York Public Library Desk Reference
9 best books like The New York Public Library Desk Reference (New York Public Library): Castaway, Total Control, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Nightmare Alley, Memoirs, 1925-1950, A Handful of Dust, The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
| Author | Lucy Irvine |
| ISBN | 0394535421 |
'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.'
The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement -- and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew.
Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if...
| Author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN | 0446604844 |
Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton...
| Author | Merriam-Webster |
| ISBN | 0877798087 |
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Book With Jacket contains 225,000 clear and precise definitions along with 10,000 new words as well as more than 40,000 example sentences to better clarify meaning plus illustrate idiomatic use. 11th Edition hardcover book features a geographical section...
| Author | William Lindsay Gresham |
| ISBN | 1590173481 |
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low....
| Author | George F. Kennan |
| ISBN | 0394716248 |
This book is the personal and professional record of one of America's most distinguished diplomats, George F. Kennan. On his graduation from Princeton in 1925, moved perhaps by the example of his distant cousin George Kennan, who wrote the classic work on Siberia, the younger George prepared to enter...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926051 |
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0393003043 |
The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...
| Author | Ted Honderich |
| ISBN | 0198661320 |
Philosophy can be intriguing--and at times baffling. It deals with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality, life after death, the limits of logic and reason--though often in rather esoteric terms. Now, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy,...
| Author | E. Ward Gilman |
| ISBN | 0877791325 |
The complete guide to problems of confused or disputed usage.
"Should I use affect or effect? Is it correct to write alright, or is all right the right one? Which cases call for in, as opposed to into?" Find answers to these questions, and many more, in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English...
