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What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of...

Brought to you by Penguin. This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love...

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, ?done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself? (USA Today) With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artists? lives. Now, as she did in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Vreeland once...

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a...

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everything. Though a talented artist, Nel has always been defined by her role as ‘the explorer's wife', but in the clear expanse of the Southern Ocean, her true self is finally allowed to emerge. Despite misogyny from the all-male crew and resentment from her husband, Nel's art begins to flourish.

This imagined retelling of Jho Low’s story, based on real events, gives listeners an insider’s view of the glitzy, glamorous world of wealth and privilege, as well as a close-up look at this enigmatic protagonist’s high-stakes fall from grace. The narrator is quirky yet eloquent, at times thoughtful and other times brash, as he leads readers through the corridors of power, where the line between friend and foe blurs. As secrets unravel and fortunes teeter on the edge, readers get a front-row seat to the dark underbelly of high finance and the price of unchecked ambition and greed.

1972, sur l'île de Heybeliada au large d'Istanbul, le refuge de Portmantle accueille des artistes en burn-out. Knell, talentueuse peintre écossaise, y vit depuis une dizaine d'années quand son quotidien est chamboulé par l'arrivée de Fullerton, un nouveau venu instable, qu'elle retrouve bientôt noyé dans sa baignoire. Cet événement l'oblige à considérer d'un œil différent ce refuge régi par des lois singulières. Elle replongera aussi dans sa jeunesse en Écosse et dans ses années de formation dans le Londres des sixties.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from...

"An eye-opening tale of all the money, sex and drugs washing through the tech world, from someone who has lived it." - Jim Edwards, Editor-in-Chief, Business Insider UK Think of the greatest tech company in the world. Imagine getting a job there. Picture the perks: free gourmet food, free...

Il primo incontro con Fellini avviene sul set di 8½, dove la madre di Marina, Caterina Boratto, è stata presa per interpretare la Signora Misteriosa, ruolo che segna il suo ritorno alle scene dopo un lungo periodo di assenza. Subito tra la sedicenne Marina e il regista scatta un’affinità. Benché sia per natura diffidente con gli altri, e ancor più verso una personalità istrionica e sfuggente come quella di Fellini, Marina si lascia affascinare dal mondo del cinema e prende a frequentare il Teatro 5 di Cinecittà.

Divertida y trepidante novelización de la vida de la primera actriz del cine de acción de la India: Mary Evans, más conocida en el ambiente artístico como Nadia. Narrada desde el punto de vista de su protagonista, que le cuenta su propia historia a un becario mientras viaja al festival de cine de Locarno, la novela está llena de anécdotas tan hilarantes como increíbles, y resulta un delicioso repaso por los inicios del S. XX en la India Británica.

Romance, humor, glamour y mucho cine se dan cita en la historia de una mujer inolvidable...