Stephen R. Thorne

Top leaders in the business community—a financial journalist, a bestselling author, and cofounder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University—teach you the character traits every employer wants to see in today's worker.In the race to...

A heartbreaking tale of pain, love, and redemption set in New York CityApproaching the Speed of Light is a story of tragedy and triumph, fragility and strength. Victoria Lustbader’s brave narrative shines a powerful light on the lasting damage caused...

Have you ever spent 10 minutes looking for your reading glasses, and they were on the top of your head? Or, have you walked into a room and forgotten why you went there? Where are your car keys?What’s normal aging? When should you be concerned? Is...

From the national bestselling author of Racing Weight, Matt Fitzgerald exposes the irrationality, half-truths, and downright impossibility of a "single right way" to eat and reveals how to develop rational, healthy eating habits.From "the Four-Hour...

The definitive biography of the last iconic fashion designer“It starts with me and it ends with me.”Karl Lagerfeld stylized himself into a living logo and a myth of the fashion world.Journalist Alfons Kaiser, who knew Lagerfeld personally for many...

First featured on a British poster produced during World War II, "Keep calm and carry on" has become the mantra of millions — but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us. The next time you are stressed by pressures of...

Staying happily married has become a difficult proposition in recent times. Although the institution is still firmly embedded in our culture, divorce rates have steadily climbed since the 1960s. While some marriages are truly divorce-worthy, many...

After years of struggle, Emma Conway is living the dream—a happy second marriage and a great career. She is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful painkiller that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high.But her dream...

Eben Adams is a young painter in Depression-era New York just looking to make a living. His work has thus far left influential art dealers unimpressed. Then Eben happens upon a young schoolgirl named Jennie in Central Park. Intrigued by her mystical...

When rare-manuscript expert, Joseph Barkeley, is hired to authenticate and purchase the original draft and notes for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, little does he know that the reclusive buyer is a member of the oldest family in Transylvania.After delivering...

The haunting novel of a strange love…Michael Robb, a young journalist and aspiring author, has just landed a dream assignment: interviewing the renowned but reclusive author Edward Granville. The famous writer and his devoted wife, Virginia, have for...

This classic novel is the inspiration behind the beloved Christmas film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Loretta Young.Bishop Henry Brougham desperately wants to build a great cathedral for his overcrowded parish. The problem is he doesn't...

In this novel of nine closely related episodes, we join Crip and Henrietta, as unlikely a detective duo as ever hit the streets.Crip and Henrietta aren't your typical California private eyes. For one thing, Crip's real name is Tom Bateman. His...

Minerva Parkinson has just received distressing news: she's dying. Though she and her husband Henry have been married for many years, their marriage has grown listless, and she therefore chooses to keep her dire prognosis to herself.With the hopes of...

A train bound for a mysterious destination stops in the middle of a meadow. As the hours pass and the cause of the delay remains unknown, we meet the various passengers. There is a priest, a former president, a lonely waitress, an elderly couple, and...

The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class.Temin argues that American history and politics,...

At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6’7”, competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette’s syndrome. But books are his first love—Josh’s earliest memories involve fantastic...

The year is 2011, and what starts as a pervasive and inexplicable illness ends up as a zombie infestation that devastates the world’s population. Taking the form of a biologist’s journal found in the aftermath of the attack, this pulse-pounding,...