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The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum, ornamented with symbols she do ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
Category: Food & Wine | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and hi ...Show more
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for StoneWhen Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created ...Show more
The Witch Of Portobello: A Novel by Paulo Coelho
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves even if we are unsure of who we are?That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well ...Show more
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But over the past thirty years, the quartet has drifted apart, the day-to-day demands of work and family tempering the r ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building (US PB) by Alaa Al Aswany
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
Three Souls by Janie Chang
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this.... So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her ow ...Show more