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Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
P.M. Forni - St. Martin's Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Most people would agree that thoughtful behavior and common decency are in short supply, or simply forgotten in hurried lives of emails, cellphones, and multi-tasking. In Choosing Civility, P. M. Forni identifies the twenty-five rules that are most essential in connecting effectively and happily... |
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The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
P.M. Forni - St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness every day and don’t know how to respond. P.M. Forni, the author of the acclaimed Choosing Civility, has the answer. In The Civility Solution, he provides more than one hundred different situations, and shows us how to break the rudeness... |
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Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilized Behavior in a Barbarous World
Lucinda Holdforth - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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"Witty, well-reasoned, and, yes, occasionally potty mouthed, the fiercely talented Lucinda Holdforth may be doing more to save civilization than anyone I know. Holdforth has held forth, and for this I bow down low before her." -Henry Alford, author of How To Live In this age of global... |
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George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior
George Washington
Format: Book
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Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, George Washington's 110 rules were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation... |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Format: Book
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. |
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"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas
Peggy Post - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever been annoyed by cell phone yakkers, line cutters, or movie chatterers? Been confused about who pays at a restaurant? Received a gift you hated? Fumed over how to respond to a nosy question? America's etiquette expert Peggy Post comes to the rescue in this concise, readable... |
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Multicultural Manners: Essential Rules of Etiquette for the 21st Century
Norine Dresser - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback
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Both highly informative and entertaining, Multicultural Manners gives readers the understanding they need, the perfect words to say, and the correct behavior to use in a wide range of cross-cultural situations. This incisive and award-winning guide to etiquette features completely... |
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Tiffany Baker - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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When Truly Plaices mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity her father blamed her for her mothers death in childbirth, and was totally... |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Audiobook
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View our feature on Geraldine Books's People of the Book.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime:... |
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Little Bee: A Novel
Chris Cleave - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress : A Novel
Sijie Dai - Knopf
Format: Print book
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An enchanting literary debut - already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education." The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors,... |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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"Sentimental, heartfelt ... .the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take... |
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Still Alice
Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children... |
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Sea of Poppies: A Novel
Amitav Ghosh - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast... |
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Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The... |
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Three Junes: A novel
Julia Glass - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon - Vintage Contemporaries
Format: Paperback
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A bestselling modern classic - both poignant and funny - about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadChristopher... |
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Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel
E. Lynn Harris - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere - a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets. Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful... |
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro - Vintage International
Format: Paperback
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is "an intricate and dazzling novel" (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguros profoundly compelling portrait... |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of WingsSet in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been... |
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Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father,... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Warner
Format: Paperback
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south-and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. |
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The House on Fortune Street LP: A Novel
Margot Livesey - HarperLuxe; First Edition edition
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It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at St. Andrews University and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain an unlikely pair. Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on- and offstage, believes... |
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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THE NO. LADIESrsquo DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. Ladiesrsquo Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanarsquos premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates... |
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Dinaw Mengestu - Riverhead Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia... |
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The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone isa captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in and the summer that would change them both.Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film... |
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
YoÌko Ogawa - Picador
Format: Paperback
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He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem -- ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper -- with a ten-year-old son -- who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor... |
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When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination - both physical and emotional - of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five... |
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Handle with Care: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated - she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance"... |
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Home: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. |
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Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay - St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition
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Paris July Sarah a ten year-old girl is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the familys apartment thinking that she will be back within a few hoursParis May On Vel dHivs th anniversary... |
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That Old Cape Magic: A Novel
Richard Russo - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback
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Following Bridge of Sighs - a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece" - Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises... |
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Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Lisa See - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback
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In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous... |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet... |
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Testimony
Anita Shreve - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandoras box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents... |
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett - Amy Einhorn Books
Format: Book
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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally... |
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
Elizabeth Strout - Random House; 2 edition
Format: Book
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • SOON TO BE AN HBO MINISERIESIn a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence... |
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin - Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Print book
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Colm Tibn's New York Times bestselling novel - soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education - is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early... |
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Rules of Civility: A Novel
Amor Towles - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night... |
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Digging to America
Anne Tyler - Knopf
Format: eBook
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In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who afterThirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness."Two families, who would otherwise... |
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel."Personal Archaeology" considers... |
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Cutting for Stone: A novel
Abraham Verghese - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis... |
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Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
Jess Walter - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood... |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
David Wroblewski - Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained... |
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A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Tom Hanks - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning... |
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Pay It Forward (DVD)
Mimi Leder - Studio Distribution Services
Format: DVD
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Pay It Forward (DVD)
Academy Award winners Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey star with Haley JoelOsment as a struggling single mother, a social studies teacher whoseplacid life is in perfect order and the student whose class assignmenthas profound repercussions when, instead of paying it back,... |
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