St Press: 10151 books
O.J. in the Morning, G&T at Night
Spirited Dispatches on Aging with Joie de Vivre
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchner's witty ruminations about the art of living well into old age...with brio and a touch of his trademark sass, Hotchner writes about rediscovering love after 75, finding joy in a scrappy African gray parrot he named after his longtime friend, Ernest...
The Guest List
How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini,...
Art on the Block
Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art--with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons
Stories...
Malice Toward None
Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Homestead Act, and the Massacre—and the Heartening Survival—of the Kochendorfers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A gravestone inscription leads the author on a search through early Minnesota history, and then U.S. and Civil War history. He discovers that four siblings orphaned by the Dakota War commissioned that inscription in memory of their parents and younger sister, and that their many descendants now live...
The Talented Miss Highsmith
The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes
A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner
A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee
A Publishers Weekly Pick...
Hiding Man
A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical...
The Long Night
William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The story of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer and how his first-hand reporting on the rise of the Nazis and on World War II brought the devastation alive for millions of Americans
When William L. Shirer started up the Berlin bureau of Edward R. Murrow's CBS News in the 1930s,...
by James Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond...
The Gross
The Hits, The Flops: The Summer That Ate Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2000
The Gross is an all-access pass to the movers, shakers, and fakers who make Hollywood run. Tinseltown is an edgy place where risk-taking is a way of life—and the risks now run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Summertime, when the studios unfurl their most expensive and effects-laden "tent-pole...
Crazy Rich
Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, all is revealed in this scrupulously researched, unauthorized biography by New...
The Santangelos
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Legendary mega-seller Jackie Collins chronicles passion and power in one of America's most glamorous families in the New York Times bestseller, The Santangelos.
A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug addled Colombian club owner. A sex crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo...
Confessions of a Wild Child
Lucky: The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Lucky Santangelo. A fifteen-year-old wild child ready to discover life, love and independence. Daughter of the notorious Gino, Lucky discovers her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool at the tender age of four. Since then Gino has kept her protected from life closeted in their...
The Belly Art Project
Moms Supporting Moms
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The Belly Art Project is a celebration of one of humanity’s greatest gifts: motherhood! Created by Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx and the Sara Blakely Foundation, this beautiful, happy book features photographs of over 100 women who came together and used unlikely canvases - their bellies -...
The Six
The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters’ life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them.” – Tina Brown,...