Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an...
"Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern airport....Code name: Operation Havoc." Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian...
Jay McInerney’s characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her married boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a family celebrating the holidays while mired in...
Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New...
George Friedman has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends. In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his...
Here begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten,...
This sequel to the best-selling The Friday Night Knitting Club returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker....
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow, as if someone had been practicing the...
When Hugh Hefner quit his job at Esquire to start a magazine called Playboy, he didn’t just want to make money, he wanted to make dreams come true. The first issue had a Sherlock Holmes story...
Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she...