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Hemingway's Chair
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly--until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin's...
by Charles Knief
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the seventh annual St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, newcomer Charles Knief spins a compelling mystery replete with scandal, intrigue, and an appealing new P.I.--retired U.S. Naval officer John Caine, living aboard his sailboat in the beautiful waters of Oahu,...
Malts & Milkshakes
60 Recipes for Frosty, Creamy Frozen Treats
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This sweet collection of 60 recipes puts a new spin on an old-fashioned treat with comforting dessert drinks from times new and old!
Organized into sections covering Soda Fountain Classics, Modern Flavors, and Boozy Shakes, the 60 recipes for inspired shakes and malts utilize classic ingredients...
Laughing on the Outside
The Life of John Candy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Funny and gentle, John Candy was loved by millions of movie fans for playing true-to-life characters. Whether as the irrepressible bon vivant in Splash, the misunderstood slob in Uncle Buck, or the generous lonely salesman in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, John Candy struck a perfect balance between...
Plum Spooky
A Stephanie Plum Between the Numbers Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Plum Spooky, the First Full Length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich.
Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey.
According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens...
Vincente Minnelli
Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Vincente Minnelli, Hollywood's Dark Dreamer is the first full-length biography of Vincente Minnelli, one of the most legendary and influential directors in the twentieth century, encompassing his life, his art, and his artistry. Minnelli started out as a set and costume designer in New York, where...
by Elina Furman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1999
Smart, sexy, and soulful, Ricky Martin is more than a pop star. He's an accomplished actor and Grammy-award-winning singer who takes himself and his music seriously. Immensely talented, he started out young, acting in commercials at the age of six, and eventually joined the hugely successful singing...
Angel of Vengeance
The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of...
Nostradamus
How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world?
In Nostradamus: How an Obscure...
Standing on Holy Ground
A Triumph over Hate Crime in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, was one of the first destroyed. This small, isolated church had faced dark times before. It had been viciously...
The Burning Time
Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more...
Salthill
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
One evening in 1946, a hungry stranger joins the family at Salthill, a horse ranch in the Skillihawk Valley in British Columbia. Grey St. Oegger welcomes the young African-American, who gives his name as simply Harris, in for a meal. But after dinner, when he sees Harris's affinity for horses, he...
Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
Great Harry
A Biography of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs.
In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men.
Based on...