Celeste Lawson

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For thirteen years, Rebecca Rice has suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood. Now it’s 1895, and Rebecca is ready for change. She can’t remember a time in her life when she hasn’t done exactly what is expected of her—until now.Armed with a...

Balanchine Variations

Balanchine Variations

Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis...

Cracking Your Retirement Nest Egg

Cracking Your Retirement Nest Egg

Whatever you have—or haven’t—put away, if you are getting serious about retirement, this book can show you the right moves to make and the pitfalls to avoid.You may not be sure where to allocate your investments or how to structure a comfortable...

Face of the Enemy

Face of the Enemy

In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese...

In the Shadow of Fame

In the Shadow of Fame

Written by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, this is the intimate story of a daughter’s struggle to develop a sense of self in a family—and a world—in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human...

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

"To know Emily is to enhance one's days with gaiety, charm and occasional terror."—Cornelia Otis Skinner of her coauthor, Emily KimbroughActress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their...

Outside Passage

Outside Passage

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage—learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on...

In this elegant and sensual novel, Frederic Tuten explores the ageless tension between a life of passion and a desire for ease. Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, an art historian who struggles to choose between...

Dannie Faber has lots of reasons to feel blessed. A children’s book illustrator, she shares a loving marriage with Tom, a professor, with whom she divides her time between one of Boston’s finest suburbs and a beloved beach house in Truro, on Cape Cod....