Broadway dared to reinvent the most iconic album in rock history, but behind the scenes, financial intrigue, ego clashes and dreams collapsed.This is one of the Producers account of how the Beatle's Sgt. Pepper's collided with direction that overshadowed the music, as well as a critical analysis of how pop music has altered the landscape and future of Broadway musicals.

'Stars of American Ballet' embarked on a journey that made international headlines as the first performing arts company to appear before multi-racial audiences during apartheid in South Africa.Stars proceeded to then perform record-breaking tours in 66 American cities per year and cited by the New York Times as "The resurgence of Balanchine's legendary Ballet Caravan."The Journal offers insights into the inner workings of performances, rehearsals and personal moments with s...

A novel that uncovers the electrifying excitement, graceful beauty, and dazzling glamor of the ballet world behind the curtain. In the fiercely competitive arena of the stage, passionate dancers engage in heated rivalries for starring roles and the competition for lovers.Alison Fain's insatiable hunger for love and fame propels her from the dazzling spotlight to the shadowy depths of envy and deceit, leaving a trail of broken relationships and betrayed friendships

A gritty, biting novel that exposes the excitement, grace, glamour and backstage of the ballet world with lusty dancers in cutthroat competition. Allison Fain's desperate hunger for love and fame drives her from the lights of the stage to the dark realms of jealousy, sex and deception destroying lovers and friends along the way.

When FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers a murder in the attic of a Long Island estate, a scorched claw print leads him down a dark trail of unspeakable terror.A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate.There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakabl...

The New York Times bestseller: "[A] brutally honest memoir of a brave, smart, fresh-faced young woman's descent into domestic hell." —Monica Holloway, author of Driving with Dead PeopleAt 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a downtown New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind her façade of success, this golden gi...

Casper Silverbell is a grumpity elf, and with good reason. As an accountant at the North Pole, he gets no respect from most of the creative elves who don't see his job as important. The only joys in his life are his pet polar bears, his love of fine tailoring, and his monthly spats with the head of Gift Development.Did he say joy? He meant to say annoyance. Dmitri Hollyberry is everything Casper resents about creative elves, wrapped up in one green-haired, tattooed package. Dmitri ...

A scandalous look at life lived in the lap of luxury...Jessica Ruston's unputdownable debut novel, Luxury, will transport you to a world of glitz, glamour and scandalous secrets. The perfect read for fans of Penny Vincenzi, Lulu Taylor, Tasmina Perry and Rebecca Chance.'Manhattan penthouses and exotic islands are the glitzy settings in this blockbuster debut. Deliciously indulgent' - Marie ClaireSexy, smart New Yor...

In Gone with the Win, another charming entry in Mary Daheim’s beloved Bed-and-Breakfast series, someone from Judith McMonigle Flynn’s past comes knocking, and the reluctant amateur sleuth finds herself working a case so cold it's practically frozen.Ruby Tooms drops her bags and a mystery on the lovely Persian carpet of Hillside Manor, Judith’s bed-and-breakfast in Seattle.Ruby’s mother was strangled years before, soon after her divorce from Ruby’s father—and the ki...

Originally a novella published in The New York Times MagazineThe first stand-alone thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver SwanShifting from 1950s Dublin to contemporary New York, the masterful crime writer Benjamin Black returns in this standalone thriller--a story of family secrets so deep, and so dange...