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Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil
Nancy Atherton
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Oct. 2, 2000)Lori Shepherd leaps at the chance to spend a few days away from the twins and hits the road to evaluate a rare book collection and stumbles across a mystery in the corridors of a Gothic castle. 17,500 first printing.
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Aunt Dimity Snowbound
Nancy Atherton
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Jan. 26, 2004)Trapped by a blizzard with two other stranded backpackers in Ladyhouse Abbey, the magnificent home of the late Lucasta DeClerke, Lori Shepherd is faced with a plot to steal a priceless DeClerke family heirloom, an unstable caretaker, and the haunting presence of Lucasta, an enigmatic madwoman whose ghost lingers amid the house's dark secrets. 20,000 first printing.
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The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart
Hardcover (Viking Adult, April 1, 1994)An accessible foray for general readers through and beyond chaos and complexity theory offers a readable survey of the history of science, clearly showing how recent discoveries have changed established assumptions about reality. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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Leon Bakst: Set and Costume Designs; Book Illustrations; Paintings and Graphic Works
Irina Pruzhaniri, Arthur Shkarovski-Raffe, Sergei Dyachenko
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Sept. 6, 1988)None
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Winston Churchill
John Keegan
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Oct. 14, 2002)A stirring account of the life of Britain's greatest twentieth-century prime minister focuses on Churchill's career during World War II, telling his story from a military history point of view. 35,000 first printing.
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Aunt Dimity: Detective
Nancy Atherton
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Oct. 1, 2001)When murder comes to Lori Shpherd's village for the first time in over a century, she agrees to investigate, despite her own hectic life as a mother of twins. 17,500 first printing.
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Naming Names
Victor S. Navasky
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Oct. 29, 1980)Unabashedly explores the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklisting from the perspective of the informers and cooperators, relying on oral history, interviews, and research to answer the question why they succumbed to pressure
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Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-Ups
Delia Ephron, Edward Koren
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Nov. 16, 1989)In a humorous guide to manners for readers of all ages, the author—through a series of multiple-choice quizzes, alternate scenarios and true-or-false questions—depicts a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be.
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Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Feb. 28, 2000)Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, everyone's favorite Singleton Bridget Jones begins her search for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice. She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It (can self-help books really help self?), protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.
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The Odessa File
Frederick Forsyth
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Nov. 1, 1972)A German free-lance reporter becomes caught up in violence and revenge when he tries to uncover former members of Hitler's SS who are being protected by the secret organization Odessa
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marshall Frady
Hardcover (Viking Adult, Jan. 14, 2002)A renowned biographer presents an intimate and inspiring portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., drawn from twenty-five years of award-winning commentary on American race relations, that combines the history of the civil rights movement with King's powerful rise to acclaim and influence, bringing to life his political relationships, his goals, and his achievements. 22,500 first printing.
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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Gary B. Nash
Hardcover (Viking Adult, June 23, 2005)An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution cites uprisings within every facet of American society, arguing that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control. By the author of Red, White, and Black. 35,000 first printing.