Overview :Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another gl... Read More
Overview :In DRINKING IN AMERICA, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at ... Read More
Overview :We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we i... Read More
Overview :One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, ... Read More
Overview :Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity t... Read More
Overview :The definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents ... Read More
Overview :The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit sca... Read More
Overview :In Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, a... Read More