Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people

Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (DESTINATIONS)

Travel

ADAMS, Alice

Reference

Simon&Schuster

In flight from a finished love affair in Boston, Daphne Matthiessen--veteran of many affairs--arrives in San Francisco to visit an old school friend, becomes involved with the friend's friends, and submits to memory and fantasy

Rich Rewards

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teacher's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments

To See You Again (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Families and Survivors

“A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.”Â --The Washington Post Â Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life. Â From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all the time resisting. In lieu of her conservative, bigoted father, she chooses men who are liberal, free-spoken, Jewish. Nevertheless her first marriage is unhappy, but her second promises to be sounder, as she discovers what she really wants, can have, can becomeâwhat she really is. Â

Eliza Hamilton Quarles, a writer at forty, comes to terms with her proper past, her family, and her lovers and reaches out toward independence, unqualified personal success, and self-understanding

Listening to Billie

This book offers a new approach for helping managers and organizations make better, more productive use of both men and women at work―an approach based on what they have in common, not on what some think divides them.
Rather than focusing on how men and women differ, Playing to Strength: Leveraging Gender at Work describes how to build a more productive work environment based on what men and women have in common. Second, unlike other books on the subject, Playing to Strength is not an advice book for women employees, but a forward-thinking guide for managers and organizations who want to achieve the type of gender-balanced environment that brings out the best in both men and women.
Playing to Strength first looks at how the exaggerated focus on gender differences affects the workplace. It then provides a critical look at a number of current attempts to resolve gender-based conflict, promote fairness, and address gender segregation in the workplace―which efforts work and why, and which are likely a waste of time and money. The rest of the book offers detailed plans for building better gender balance at work, addressing such topics as gender-inclusive teams, mentoring programs, the role of middle managers, and employee resource groups.
 • Appendices include a case study of gender in the corporate world, a sample gender inclusion plan, and experiential accounts of gender dynamics in the workplace

Playing to Strength: Leveraging Gender at Work

Business & Money

Business Culture

Praeger

Invincible Summer

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work for a big bank. Benedict, a budding scientist who's pined for Eva for years, embarks on a physics PhD, and siblings Sylvie and Lucien pursue more freewheeling existences -- she as an aspiring artist and he as a professional partier. But as their dizzying twenties evaporate into their thirties, the once close-knit friends, now scattered and struggling to navigate thwarted dreams, lost jobs, and broken hearts, find themselves drawn together once again in stunning and unexpected ways. A dazzling depiction of the highs and lows of adulthood, Invincible Summer is a story about finding the courage to carry on in the wake of disappointment and a powerful testament to love and friendship as the constants in an ever-changing world.

Teen & Young Adult

Little. Brown and Company

United States

Back Bay Books

Superior Woman

Pan/Macmillan

A curated selection of short fiction by some of the most talented American writers at work today There was a time when newspaper readers could round out breakfast with a slice of fiction by such well-known writers as Henry James and Mark Twain or Sarah Orne Jewett. Sometimes the newspaper introduced them to a newcomer, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. But over the years the short story drifted into literary magazines, and as many of those publications faded into obscurity, it looked as if short fiction might go the way of the dinosaur. Now, thanks to the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program, the short story is back where it belongs—in the daily newspapers. The eighty-three stories here were chosen in the first round of an ongoing competition by a panel of distinguished writers—Ann Beattie, Robert Stone, Anne Tyler, Russell Baker, and Kurt Vonnegut—and then submitted to a group of participating newspapers. Each paper was free to publish whichever stories it found most appropriate for its readers. As Anne Tyler writes in her introduction: “It is astonishing that there are so many skilled and gifted writers at work in just this one country, in just this one period of time. When I finished choosing them, and packed up the stories and sent them off, it was something like sending off a crowd of house guests.”

The Available Press/PEN Short Story Collection

Ballantine Books

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Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (DESTINATIONS)

Rich Rewards

To See You Again (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Families and Survivors

Listening to Billie

Playing to Strength: Leveraging Gender at Work

Invincible Summer

Invincible Summer

Superior Woman

The Available Press/PEN Short Story Collection