Cleopatra: A Life, Stacey SchiffThe Pulitzer Prize winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time

is a throwback to her best-known-and most beloved-material: family secrets

the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess

be their undoing

' Independent 'Everything he writes is addictively readable and clever

the curious

all notions that can be applied to aspects of modern life

Appealingly illustrated with nearly one hundred black-and-white halftones

How do you know he's The One

Nick and Nora Charles

Anchor Butter

milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look

The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother