"Certain tales stick in our memories and remain timeless as the years march on-and they shine like never before in this compilation from Reader's Digest. Our editors have carefully selected narratives readers have adored throughout the past century; humorous slices of life in dec...
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Nancy Buirski's documentary on famed prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, the muse of both George Balanchine who married her, and Jerome Robbins who created his famous choregrahic work, Afternoon of a Faun, for her.
""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has s...
"Wake up, genius." So begins the story of a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, bu...
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a ...
«Despierta, genio». Así comienza la fascinante novela de Stephen King sobre un lector fanático. El genio es John Rothstein, un autor de culto, creador del personaje de Jimmy Gold. Morris Bellamy está fuera de sí, no solo porque Rothstein haya dejado de escribir, sino también por...
Butterflies are perhaps the world's most beloved insects. But beneath their colorful charm, there's a wealth of hidden scientific secrets that show butterflies to be smarter and more resilient than we ever imagined.
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to stage mentalist John Triton. In flashback, we see how Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make mo...
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, a New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping , Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20t...
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision and came west to Kansas to fight for a...
After Morris Bellamy discovers that notebooks and money belonging to his favorite author were taken by Pete Saubers, only Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson can rescue the Saubers family from the deranged and vengeful criminal.
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a ...
Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country's more tolerant culture in race relations. Yet as this story of African-Canadian participation in sports demonstrates, the record is far more troubling. In reality, Canada's record in matters of race was a disturbing bl...