Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Everything Irish
The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland, from A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Here, in one complete volume, is the depth and breadth of the great island nation and its people represented in an easily browsed, friendly format. From the Abbey Theatre to the Dublin storyteller Zozimus; from the origin of the Troubles to the origin of the limerick; from the stunning beauty of Connemara...
Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.
When...
by Mitchell Ivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Clear, concise, effective, THE RANDOM HOUSE GUIDE TO GOOD WRITING is for anyone who wishes to communicate well in writing. Mitchell Ivers shows us how to master the medium and the message with an array of features: Precise guidelines on word usage, grammar, and punctuation--and how to decide with...
Slipping into Paradise
Why I Live in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle– out of all the places on earth–in such a faraway land? It turns out that while...
Time Bomb
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.
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“Virtually...
Amandine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Marlena de Blasi, the acclaimed author of such delectable memoirs as A Thousand Days in Venice and That Summer in Sicily, now brings her luminous prose to the world of fiction with this remarkable debut novel. Set against the backdrop of Europe as it moves inexorably toward World War II, Amandine...
by Sibylle Knauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Berchtesgaden, Germany, is a beautiful place, set among the gentle meadow-clad hills rising to the sheer heights of bare Alpine peaks. It is here where an elderly woman arrives and recollects her past—and her peripheral role in a chapter of world history. She walks along a beaten path, which has...
by Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry is a pretty amiable guy. But lately, he’s been getting a little worked up. What could make a mild-mannered man of words so hot under the collar? Well, a lot of things–like bad public art, Internet millionaires, SUVs, Regis Philbin . . . and even bigger...
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the world....
by Lloyd Strayhorn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Harness the power of numbers!
Numerology has been around since the sixth century B.C. and has been used throughout the ages to reveal the secrets of personality . . . to determine the numerical vibrations surrounding different aspects of life . . . and to select the key numbers in your life...
The Analects of Confucius
A Philosophical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"
--Confucius
Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese...
The Soul's Code
In Search of Character and Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
“[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,”...
Maybe (Maybe Not)
Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
I once began a list of the contradictory notions I hold:
Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.
Two heads are better than one.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Better safe than sorry.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Absence...
You Can Adopt
An Adoptive Families Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
From Adoptive Families magazine, the country’s leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children. You Can Adopt...