Katherine Walden seems to be living everyone else's life but her own. She ghostwrites other authors' books and has a reliable love affair with another woman's man. And her four best friends have mapped out the life they think she should be leading. T...
Half of the New Yorkers Isobel knew would kill for Pete's baronial Fifth Avenue apartment. Dr. Peter Arlen, psychiatrist, inherited it. Isobel Behringer, architectural preservationist and director of Urban Heritage, married into it. Flush and faintly...
Hallie Fields is a successful freelance magazine writer whose work and personal life are beginning to dangerously blur. First Hallie finds herself - against her better judgment - getting involved with the subject of her most recent profile, the charm...
Bailey Bender doesn't think of herself as a failure, more like a case of arrested success. She's fled an enviable career as a hot-shot investigative reporter, an admirable marriage, and a hectic, New York City life. Now she's living a quiet, simple e...
"An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic." -- Dana Kennedy, New York TimesOn February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked and eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got...
A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fa...
"War . . . next to love, has most captured the world's imagination." -- Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, 1914 A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three young women and their men during the ...
In CIA parlance, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was among the “unwitting.” On a bright November day in 1963, President Kennedy is shot. That same day, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband, the i...
In the spirit of "The Paris Wife" and "Loving Frank," the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood -- an indomitable woman who...
"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." -- Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyLiving through World War II working in a Paris ...
From the author of Paris Never Leaves You, Ellen Feldman's The Living and the Lost is a gripping story of a young German Jewish woman who returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future “A deeply satisfying an...
"Rich in colorful characters, Feldman's riveting tale is one of resilience, determination, and hope." -- BooklistIn an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and ...