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,

Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t

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.

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

In the 8th century AD Ibn al′Arabi, the Moorish governor of Barcelona, bestowed a magnificent gift upon Charlemagne, Holy Emperor of half of the known world: a chess set with the power to transform the course of history. New York City, 1970. Catherine ′Cat′ Velis, a computer expert working for one of the world′s largest accountancy firms, is sent on a dangerous assignment to retrieve an object of immeasurable value from somewhere in the remote reaches of Algeria. Montglane Abbey, France 1790, Mireille de Remy and her cousin Valentine are young novices at the fortress-like Montglane Abbey. With France aflame in revolution, the two girls burn to rebel against constricted convent life - and their means of escape is at hand. Buried deep within the abbey are pieces of the Montglane Chess Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Whoever reassembles the pieces can play a game of unlimited power. But to keep the game a secret from those who would abuse it, the two young women must scatter the pieces throughout t

World-renowned Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth . . . the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts'own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon isconsidered the definitive history of the Apollo moonmissions-arguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, usingnever-before-published quotes taken from his in-depth interviewswith twenty-three of the twenty-four Apollo lunar astronauts,Chaikin and his collaborator, Victoria Kohl, have created anextraordinary account of the lunar missions. In Voices from theMoon the astronauts vividly recount their experiences inintimate detail; their distinct personalities and remarkably variedperspectives emerge from their candid and deeply personalreflections. Carefully assembled into a narrative that reflects theentire arc of the lunar journey, Voices from the Moon captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book.Paired with their own words are 160 images taken from NASA's newhigh-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during themis

A sharp, witty and hugely entertaining debut novel, The DevilWears Prada is The Nanny Diaries set in the world of high fashion.Welcome to the dollhouse, baby! When Andrea first sets foot in theplush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's neverheard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared andfawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. But she's going to beMiranda's assistant, a job millions of girls would die for. A yearlater, she knows altogether too much: That it's a sacking offenceto wear anything lower than a three-inch heel to work. But thatthere's always a fresh pair of Manolos for you in the accessoriescupboard. That Miranda believes Hermes scarves are disposable, andyou must keep a life-time supply on hand at all times. That eightstone is fat. That you can charge cars, manicures, anything at allto the Runway account, but you must never, ever, leave your desk,or let Miranda's coffee get cold. And that at 3 a.m. on a Sunday,when your boyfriend's dumping you because you're always

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.

Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt, to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea, "Ford County" features a vivid cast of attorneys, crooks, hustlers, and convicts. Through their stories he paints a unique picture of lives lived and lost in Mississippi. Completely gripping, frequently moving and always entertaining, "Ford County" brims with the same page-turning quality and heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers, and is proof once more why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.

'Bein' an idiot is no box of chocolates' Laugh, cry, stand up and cheer: Forrest Gump is everyman's story, everyman's dream. A wonderfully warm, savagely barbed, and hilariously funny 'tale told by an idiot', from the razor-sharp pen of a contemporary wizard. No one is spared and everyone is included. If you've ever felt lacking, left out, put upon - or just wanted to have a rollicking good time this book is for you. At 6'6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a difficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. Go with Forrest to Harvard University, to a Hollywood movie set, on a professional wrestling tour, and into space on the oddest NASA mission ever. Forrest Gump lives! Thank heavens! 'A superbly controlled satire' 'FORREST GUMP is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn; its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. It is not the less honest f

A LONELY MAN. Toby Temple is a super star and a super bastard,a man adored by his fans and plagued by suspicion anddistrust. A DISILLUSIONED WOMAN. Jill Castle came to Hollywood to be a star-- and discovered she had to buy her way with her body. A WORLD OF PREDATORS. Here they are bound to each other by a loveso ruthless, so strong, it is more than human -- and less...

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

“After Dark is a streamlined, hushed ensemble piece. …Standing above the common gloom, Murakami detects phosphorescence everywhere, but chiefly in the auras around people, which glow brightest at night and when combined.” The New York Times Book Review A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle international bestsellers, with a surprising infusion of heart, Murakami has produced one of his most enchanting fictions yet. “Murakami is masterful with symbolism.. . . Night. . . can’t blacken the ever-shifting shutter speeds of Murakami’s cockeyed Kodak.. . . It is straight- ahead jazz with a quiet grace.” The Los Angeles Times

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

Upon its original publication in 1951, this PulitzerPrize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the firstserious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the humanconsequences of World War II. In the intervening half-century,Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining story oflife-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater hasachieved the status of a modern classic

In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappearedfrom her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to thechest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide-but some of theevidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believethis was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book investigation, noone was ever charged. Now Detective Harry Bosch is back with theLAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases, and thisgirl's death is the first he's given. A DNA match makes the casevery much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold.The ripples from this death have destroyed at least two otherlives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot grief, hot rage,and a bottomless well of betrayal and malice. And it's not just thegirl's family and friends whose lives Bosch is stirring up afresh.With each new development, Harry Bosch finds increasing resistancefrom within the police force itself. Old enemies are close at hand.Even as he pushes relentlessly to find the truth,

"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddishstoryteller." -O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years afterits original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in thecolorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans tenyears and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel andLeibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia whofall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together theyrun away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tourseparately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York.Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story,and an anthem for the magic of the theater.

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ?particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily inConnecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love andSqualor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel isfully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE isan ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named HoldenCaulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult,secondhand de*ion, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvaniaand goes underground in New York City for three days. The boyhimself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make anyfinal comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing wecan say about Holden is that he was born in the world not juststrongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adultvoices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquentof all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelouslyfaithful to it, he issue