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The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Category: Fashion | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and hi ...Show more
The Story Hour by Thrity N Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.An experie ...Show more
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for compa ...Show more
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for StoneWhen Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county ...Show more
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, of ...Show more
The Witch Of Portobello: A Novel by Paulo Coelho
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves even if we are unsure of who we are?That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well ...Show more
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But over the past thirty years, the quartet has drifted apart, the day-to-day demands of work and family tempering the r ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building (US PB) by Alaa Al Aswany
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
Three Souls by Janie Chang
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this.... So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her ow ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more