Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made,Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer,legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. Nomatter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, theMafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, orthe hills of Hollywood--he has found a way to put on a show andsell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted toput it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world undera marquee that read: 'Jerry Weintraub Presents.'" In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU'LL KNOW I'M DEAD, we follow Weintraubfrom his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley,whom he took on the road; to the immortal days with Sinatra and RatPack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting withRobert Altman and Nashville , continuing with Oh,God! , The Karate Kid movies, and Diner ,among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean'sEleven , Twelve , and Thirteen . Along the way,

Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achievedan almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcomereturn to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equalmeasure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces ThrushGreen, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes,thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales.Readers will delight in a new cast of characters and also welcomefamiliar faces as they become immersed in the village's turn ofevents on one pivotal day -- May Day. Before the day is over, lifeand love and perhaps eternity will touch the immemorial peace ofthe village.

Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because ofglobal warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalistChris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on eitherside of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane season,tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weatheritself have skewed and amplified what was already an intensescientific debate. In this fascinating and urgently important book,Mooney--a native of New Orleans--delves into a compellingconsequence of the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are weresponsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than theyalready are?

George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized inplaces where people disappeared--Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found,and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes for the town paper,stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and localcelebrities, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of hisson's last day.Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-personsdetective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr.When he gives Gates the story she left behind--about a man stalkinga woman named Katherine Carr--Gates too is drawn inexorably into asearch for the missing author's brief life and uncertain fate. Andas he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the keynot only to her fate, but to his own.

TheCircus has already suffered a bad defeat, and the result was twobullets in a man's back. But a bigger threat still exists. And thelegendary George Smiley is recruited to root out a high-level moleof thirty years' standing - though to find him means spying on thespies. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is brilliant and ceaselesslycompelling, pitting Smiley against his Cold War rival, Karla, inone of the greatest struggles in all fiction.

In 1931 Hawai‘i, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of anaval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When thetrial ended in a hung jury, Thalia’s mother arranged for one of thesuspects to be murdered—an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites asan "honor killing." The ensuing murder trial, Clarence Darrow’slast, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of aHawaiian "paradise." This is the riveting story behind one of thepivotal scandals of American history.

In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers findsolace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communalcelebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start afamily. Because they and their countrymen must sell both theircatch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have becometheir only staple food. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years,a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disasterinto The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora andMichael vow their children will live. The family joins two millionother Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigrationfrom Ireland. Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, herunconventional sister Máire, and their seven sons help transformChicago from a frontier town to the "City of the Century." The boysgo on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause ofIreland's freedom. Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, an

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorkerstories—particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily inConnecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme—With Love and Squalor,will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully ofchildren. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancientchild of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield.Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhandde*ion, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goesunderground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is atonce too simple and too complex for us to make any final commentabout him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he wasborn in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but,almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in thisnovel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-butHolden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his ownvernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he iss

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History withJigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabbleweaves her own story into a history of games, in particularjigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief frommelancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveriesabout jigsaw puzzles--did you know that the 1929 stock market crashwas followed by a boom in puzzle sales?--Drabble introduces us toher beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to thehouse in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first tripto London together, the books they read, and the jigsaws theycompleted. She offers penetrating sketches of her parents,siblings, and children, and shares her thoughts on the importanceof childhood play, on art and writing, and on aging and memory. Andshe does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. Thisis a memoir like no other. --A New York Times Book ReviewEditors'Choice.

A collection of Lewis's complete shorter fiction, includingtwo previously unpublished works, "The Dark Tower" and "The ManBorn Blind." Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

This anthology represents Alice Walkers complete earlierpoetry, from the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africaand began the poems that would form her first collection, throughher poetry of the civil rights movement and beyond. Revelatoryintroductions to each group of poems provide a special insight intothe evolving consciousness of one of the most remarkable andprovocative literary minds of our time.

In despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkeyleaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, heencounters four wandering dervishes - three princes and a richmerchant from Persia, Yemen and China - who have been guided toTurkey by a supernatural force that prophesied their meeting. Thefive men sit together in the dead of night, each in turn tellingthe tale of lost love that led him to renounce the world. As theirstories within stories unfold, a magnificent world is revealed ofcourtly intrigue and romance, fairies and djinn, oriental gardensand lavish feasts, adventures and mishaps. "A Tale of FourDervishes" (1803) is an exquisite example of Urdu fiction thatprovides a fascinating glimpse into the customs, beliefs and peopleof the time.

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish herfirst book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited andwith a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.

Ambitious Brew, the first-ever history of American beer, tellsan epic story of American ingenuity and the beverage that became anational standard. Not always America’s drink of choice, beerfinally took its top spot in the nation’s glasses when a wave ofGerman immigrants arrived in the mid-nineteenth century and settledin to re-create the beloved biergartens they had left behind. Fiftyyears later, the American-style lager beer they invented was thenation’s most popular beverage—and brewing was the nation’sfifth-largest industry, ruled over by titans Frederick Pabst andAdolphus Busch. Anti-German sentiments aroused by World War I fedthe flames of the temperance movement and brought on Prohibition.After its repeal, brewers replaced flavor with innovations such asflashy marketing and lite beer, setting the stage for thegeneration of microbrewers whose ambitions would reshape the brewonce again.

Would you stay in a haunted house for more than one night? Would you live in a place where ghostly things keep happening? Where a cellar door you know you locked the night before is always open the following morning? Where hushed whimpering is heard? Where white shadows steal through the darkness? Where the presence of evil is all around you? Would you? Should you? The Caleighs did, but they had their reasons. They should have known better though. As the terror mounts, they begin to regret their decision. As the horror rises, they realize their very lives are at risk.., and so is their sanity. For the secret of Crickley Hall is beyond all nightmares...

St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - hidden away, it's a place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's where the girls must survive a world of forbidden romances, a ruthless social scene and terrifying night time rituals. But most of all, staying alive.

"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth wasdeemed crucial to national security and pride." -The Wall Street Journal Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of anAmerican triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson'sdefinitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in thepresence of more than a million spectators who had gathered towitness a truly historic event. Through interviews, 23,000 pages ofNASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the spacerace, Rocket Men presents a vivid narrative of the moon mission,taking readers on the journey to one of the last frontiers of thehuman imagination.

Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet nonethe less he is an outcast in India s caste system: an Untouchable.In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes aday in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as hesearches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been borninto - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poureda vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversialwork, which led him to be acclaimed as his country s CharlesDickens and one of the twentieth century s most important Indianwriters.

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia,Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinatingstory of the final days of Russian monarchs Nicholas and Alexandraas seen through the eyes of the Romanov's young kitchen boy,Leonka.