Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Merry and Bright
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Christmas is the season of the heart, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber is here to warm yours with a delightful holiday novel of first impressions and second chances.
Merry Knight is pretty busy these days. She’s taking care of her family,...
by Debbie Macomber
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Debbie Macomber’s heartwarming series, set at the Rose Harbor Inn in picturesque Cedar Cove, displays the author’s signature talent for creating characters who feel like friends, and small towns that feel like home. In this original short story, Jo Marie Rose readies...
Hearts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Linda and Robin Reismann barely know each other. The only thing that connects them is Linda’s six-week-old marriage to Robin’s father, who has suddenly died.
Widowed at twenty-six, Linda is heading to California to start over, uncertain what the future holds. In the trunk of her car, she...
Shaggy Muses
The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“You’ll call this sentimental–perhaps–but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. And it is this private, playful side, the richness and power of the bond between five great women writers and their dogs, that Maureen Adams...
When the Finch Rises
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“[A] deeply satisfying portrait of a troubled family [that] conjures up the mysteries of a mill town summer, vividly depicting the lights and shadows of ordinary events and horrors.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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It is the late 1960s in the small North Carolina mill town of Ellenton....
The Smiles of Rome
A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Take a Roman holiday with some of the world’s greatest writers
Explore the Palatine with Elizabeth Bowen. Visit the temple of the Vestal Virgins with Georgina Masson. Analyze Michelangelo’s Moses with Sigmund Freud. Stroll through ancient streets with Goethe and with Henry James. Share...
At the Edge of Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war.
Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother’s bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic château in the French countryside, where...
Therapy
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
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Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion...
by Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
"Just the ticket for the '90s."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put...
by Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz, Jean Owen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What is real, lasting happiness? How does one achieve it? And why are so many people holding themselves back? At the heart of this profound, simple, beautiful book is the wisdom of Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz, married psychoanalysts who encourage readers to both love themselves and to confront...
How to Handle Trouble
A Guide to Peace of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
"Wise and discerning . . . . Full of hope." M. Scott Peck, M.D., author of "The Road Less Traveled."
For everyone faced with unforeseen disaster, this book -- written while its author struggled with bone cancer -- can be the best of allies. With rock-bottom honesty, Carmody writes...
The Great Thoughts, Revised and Updated
From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas That Have Shaped the History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher,...
by Benjamin Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In this brilliant, controversial, and profoundly original book, Benjamin R. Barber fundamentally alters the terms of the current debate over the value of opportunity in American education, politics, and culture.
Barber argues that the fashionable rallying cries of cultural literacy and political correctness...
by Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book!
Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoholics -- Drunk and Proud, Lush and Wino -- and their games, scripts and rackets: Debtor......