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Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A roller-coaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.

The night before her father dies, 18-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death.

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century … I don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled...

Antes de ser um dos escritores mais queridos do Brasil, Pedro Salomão atuou como palhaço na Santa Casa de Misericórdia e no Hospital do Câncer, e viu de perto como é transformador o poder da alegria. Felicidade em copo d'água reúne alguns causos vividos pelo autor e que revelarão aos leitores o que muitos já sabem: nem sempre dá para se preparar para o inesperado, mas é possível encontrar o que mais procuramos onde menos imaginamos—até mesmo em um copo d'água.