Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
How God Changes Your Brain
Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
God is great—for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies, a wide-reaching survey of people’s religious and spiritual experiences, and the authors’ analyses of adult drawings of God, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and therapist Mark Robert...
The Man Who Was Late
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"Begley writes with a contemplative wisdom that permeates his work....[He] has captured some of the wispy melancholy of midcentury fiction, and this feat in itself is mellifluous to both ear and spirit."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
A man without a country or family, a Holocaust survivor, Ben...
Spellbinder's Gift
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The miraculous story of a loving couple, their never-to-be-forgotten friend, a little girl, and a very special teddy bear....
Retired from his long, successful career as an agent to many of the most famous and dynamic motivational speakers in the world, Bart Manning was happily enjoying his...
The Secret of Life
Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Though she might not always follow her own advice, Elizabeth Wurtzel knows certain things to be true: Doing copious amounts of drugs leads nowhere you want to be; trying to be friends with your ex is always a bad idea; if you can’t afford to hire a mover, you can’t afford to move; and always doing...
Homesick and Happy
How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
An insightful and powerful look at the magic of summer camp—and why it is so important for children to be away from home . . . if only for a little while.
In an age when it’s the rare child who walks to school on his own, the thought of sending your “little ones” off to sleep-away camp...
by Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
"RELENTLESSLY FUNNY . . . BARRY SHINES."
--People
A self-professed computer geek who actually does Windows 95, bestselling humorist Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious hard drive via the information superhighway--and into the very heart of cyberspace, asking the provocative question:...
I Do, Now What?
Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
**Bill and Giuliana Rancic are now the hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, a new relationship show featuring three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.
Five million viewers tuned in to The Style Network for Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic’s fairy tale wedding...
The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle
The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this,” raves Lee Child—and countless readers agree. The inspiration behind TNT’s hit show Rizzoli & Isles, Tess Gerritsen’s New York Times bestselling thrillers featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles just...
Island Girls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Nancy Thayer returns to her beloved Nantucket in a highly emotional, wholly entertaining tale of three sisters forced to confront the past over one event-filled summer on the island.
Charming ladies’ man Rory Randall dies with one last trick up his sleeve: His will...
The Silent Girl (with bonus short story Freaks)
A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT
In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver...
A Nantucket Wedding
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Wedding bells are ringing—and a widowed mother of two hopes the occasion will reunite her daughters in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer.
“A delightful beach-town tale about family relationships and second chances.”—Kirkus...
A Girl's Guide to Moving On
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful and uplifting novel, a mother and her daughter-in-law bravely leave their troubled marriages and face the challenge of starting over.
When Nichole discovers that her husband, Jake, has been unfaithful, the illusion of her perfect life is indelibly...
Dashing Through the Snow
A Christmas Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Savor the magic of the season in a Christmas novel filled with warmth, humor, the promise of love, and a dash of unexpected adventure.
Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell...
Wife 22
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A skillful blend of pop-culture references, acidic humor, and emotional moments. It will take its rightful place . . . alongside Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Anna Maxted’s Getting Over It, and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It.”—Library Journal (starred review)
Alice...