Lauren Weisberger is the bestselling author of the classic dishy novel THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, which details the cutthroat world of fashion magazines. With her new novel, THE SINGLES GAME, hot off the presses, Off the Shelf was lucky enough to get an inside look at the eclectic mix of books displayed on Weisberger’s bookshelf.
For fifty years, Trudy’s mother has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Now a professor of German history, Trudy finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother’s life. This profound page-turner combines a passionate, doomed love story and a touching mother-daughter drama.
For fifty years, Trudy’s mother has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Now a professor of German history, Trudy finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother’s life. This profound page-turner combines a passionate, doomed love story and a touching mother-daughter drama.
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When Marjorie leaves New York at 19 for the job of her dreams, she finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest—and the most destructive—love of her life. MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR is a classic love story rich with humor.
When Marjorie leaves New York at 19 for the job of her dreams, she finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest—and the most destructive—love of her life. MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR is a classic love story rich with humor.
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes—only 16 of 45 made it off the mountain alive. This is the story of the ten excruciating weeks they suffered and one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes—only 16 of 45 made it off the mountain alive. This is the story of the ten excruciating weeks they suffered and one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.
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In NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Robert Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia. Set against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, it tells the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, I AM FORBIDDEN brings to life four generations of one Satmar Jewish family. This extraordinary novel explores what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of tradition collide.
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, I AM FORBIDDEN brings to life four generations of one Satmar Jewish family. This extraordinary novel explores what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of tradition collide.
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Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu departs military-ruled Nigeria for America, where she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Fearless, gripping, darkly funny, and tender, AMERICANAH is a richly told story spanning three continents.
This powerful story of race and gender is centered on Ifemelu, a brilliant and self-assured young woman who departs military-ruled Nigeria for an American university where, for the first time, she is forced to grapple with her identity as a black woman. Ifemelu faces difficult choices and challenges, suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, and eventually achieves success as the writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. Fearless and gripping, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world.
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Grace is a writer who calls upon women to pay attention to their first impressions of men in her forthcoming book “You Should Have Known.” When a violent death occurs and her husband goes missing, Grace's life is turned upside down.
Grace is a writer who calls upon women to pay attention to their first impressions of men in her forthcoming book “You Should Have Known.” When a violent death occurs and her husband goes missing, Grace's life is turned upside down.
