Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me
The Pursuit of Happiness, One Celebrity at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For fans of The Happiness Project and The Year of Living Biblically comes a pointed look at our fascination with celebrities, as one woman strives to remake herself in the image of her favorite stars.
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What woman hasn’t seen pictures of Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Beyoncé and wished...
The Clinic
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Professor Hope Devane’s male-bashing pop-psych bestseller created a storm of controversy on the talk-show circuit. Now she is dead, brutally slashed on a quiet street in one of L.A.’s safest neighborhoods. The LAPD’s investigation has gone cold, and homicide...
by Marianne Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Cutting across class, race, religion, and gender, A Woman's Worth speaks powerfully and persuasively to a generation in need of healing, and in search of harmony.
With A Woman's Worth, Marianne Williamson turns her charismatic voice—and the same empowering, spiritually enlightening wisdom...
Running with the Bulls
My Years with the Hemingways
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling...
New Passages
Mapping Your Life Across Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . .
People are taking longer to grow up and...
by Sherrie Krantz
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
***Meet Vivian . . .
A small-town girl who conquers the Big City on her own terms . . . a sucker for happy endings with an attraction to all things fattening—and a personality that oddly gets her in (and out of) trouble at lightning speed. This is her story . . . and perhaps a little of yours,...
The Worst of Sports
Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BALL GAME–PLEASE!
From star running back Bryon “Bam” Morris’s interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A’s sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde’s epic choke on 18 at the 1999 British...
Ticket to the Opera
Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Rec
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as...
Gay and Lesbian Weddings
Planning the Perfect Same-Sex Ceremony
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Comprehensive, fresh, and funny, Gay and Lesbian Weddings covers everything you need to know to plan the wedding of your dreams.Unlike other wedding planners, this one tackles the issues your heterosexual friends never had to consider. For instance, do you come out to Aunt Gloria before she receives...
by Dale Thomajan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
A book and a game for silver-screen fanatics and current blockbuster buffs
“You must remember this…”
A kiss is just a kiss, but famous movie lines last forever, and many have become permanently part of American culture. Great Movie Lines collects and strings together the best of them into...
The Last Gift of Time
Life Beyond Sixty
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday,...
The Romanov Empress
A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar.
“This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before...
Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII’s third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history.”—Publishers Weekly
Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered...
Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In this second novel of Alison Weir’s epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life—and death—forever changed a nation.
Born into...