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  • The Sullivanians

    Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

    FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZEThe devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Sack of Rome

    Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi

    Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man? Many are the crimes of Silvio Berlusconi, Stille argues, and, with deft analysis, he weaves them ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Force of Things

    A Marriage in War and Peace

    A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory"One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism

    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, 1992“Alexander Stille’s stunning achievement in Benevolence and Betrayal — the result of meticulous research and comprehensive understanding — is to give faces and personalities to people who might otherwise have been consigned to anonymity... ‘Frequently,’ Mr. Stille says, ‘the best and worst instincts resided within the same person.’ He puts this remark in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of the Past

    An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalizationSpace radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pleasure

    Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seductionLike Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there ... Read more

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    The Sullivanians

    Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 48 min

    In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders wanted to start a revolution, one grounded in ideals of creative expression, sexual liberation, and freedom from societal norms, and the revolution needed to begin at ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Mango Tree

    A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

    Narrated by Annabelle Tometich ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    This “witty, humorous, and heartfelt“ (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich’s life, from growing up in Florida as the child of and a Filipino mother and a deceased white father to her adult life as a med-school-reject-turned-food-critic.When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Best Minds

    A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and PeopleOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” *—*The New York Times“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street JournalAcclaimed author Jonathan... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Hideous Progeny

    A Novel

    by C.E. McGill ...
    “A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue.” — Jess Kidd, author of The Night Ship“An immersive blend of historical and science fiction brims with surprises and dark delights. . . . An incisive exploration of women’s rights within the field of science. . . . Readers will revel in Mary’s personal and scientific discoveries and root for her to succeed in an unfair world.” — ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Friday Afternoon Club

    A Family Memoir

    by Griffin Dunne ...
    **The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times“Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.” —Los Angeles Times“What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces,... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Guest

    A Novel

    by Emma Cline ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York Times**A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB . ... Read more

    $13.99 USD