NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book • Entertainment Weekly’s Must List • LibraryReads Top Ten Pick

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.“The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA TodayNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhen Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literar...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.“A nail-biter . . . poignant, powerful, perfect.” —Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkThe morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following...

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue.“A compelling portrait of a marriage and a nation at war from within.”—Kate Quinn, author of The Alice N...

BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb.Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.But oh my dear, I am tir...

For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America’s Gilded Age.She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. As a child, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Warren Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead...

Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife.“A shimmering rendering . . . pairs the surf culture of the Beach Boys with the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll of Daisy Jones & The Six.”—Entertainment Weekly (“Best Books of the Su...

**A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the center of it all.“As deliciously dishy as an English cream tea and the royal gossip whispered over it!”—Kate Quinn, author of The Astral Library**F...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford“Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details about the pair’s historic careers . . . a captivating ode to a legendary bond.”—Real SimpleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST...

Il 17 ottobre 1975 fa la sua comparsa nelle edicole americane un numero speciale di Esquire che mostra in copertina la foto di profilo di un Truman Capote grasso e pallido, e una didascalia che reclamizza l’ultimo, attesissimo racconto dell’acclamato autore di A sangue freddo. Titolo: La Côte Basque 1965. Capote si è incamminato da tempo lungo la china dell’autodistruzione. Quasi costantemente in preda all’alcol e alle droghe, è soltanto una smorta controfigura del trentenne dagli occhi pi...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.“A nail-biter . . . poignant, powerful, perfect.” —Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkThe morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following...

Parigi, 1940.L’esercito francese si è sfaldato come uno dei friabili pasticcini di Monsieur Escoffier e i nazisti dilagano per le strade della città. Occupano alberghi ed edifici storici senza alcun riguardo per il loro glorioso passato.Tra questi, l’Hôtel Ritz, in Place Vendôme, una delle sacre istituzioni della vita mondana parigina. Meta di principi e duchesse, di Marcel Proust e Sarah Bernhardt, di scrittori e stelle del cinema sin dal lontano 1898, quando ha spalancato p...