Jack Townsend attempts to rekindle his romance with Nina Lawrence, a relationship that turned sour en route to the altar, when he learns she is now being courted by a rich lawyer

The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

Literature & Fiction

Ackerman, Karl

United States

St Martins Pr

A warm, wry, wonderfully on-target take on contemporary romance. Jack and Nina are lovers who have moved on--he to his Washington, D.C., landscaping business, she to painting--and to another man. But Jack cannot forget Nina, and how he tries to win her heart again is the engaging premise of this funny and charming novel. "Blessed with humor and heart."--USA Today.

Dear Will: A Novel

Will Gerard has finally made it big as a literary agent, but a letter from someone claiming to be his biological daughter sends him on a quest through his past and a reexamination of his relationships.

Scribner

A delightful new twist on the comedy of manners, Dear Will is a wry look at love lost and found through the eyes of a perplexed but altogether charming man. 
 At forty-one, Will Gerard's life finally seems to be coming together. He has worked in publishing for years, but only now as a newly minted literary agent based in his hometown of Washington, D.C., has he struck pay dirt. A couple of high-profile sales and a glowing profile of Will in The Washington Post have lent him a measure of fame -- not to mention a flood of mail in the form of unpublishable manuscripts and query letters. 
 But one letter Will receives is different: It is from a young woman who hints that he might be her biological father. This news plunges Will headlong into his own past, to the childhood he spent in Bangkok, Thailand, during the Vietnam War and the girl he met there (and years later abandoned), who may be the mother of this young woman. What makes Will's personal journey all the more wrenching and poignant is that it comes in the midst of another pressing dialogue about fatherhood. Six weeks earlier, Will met Annie Leonard, the woman of his dreams, who is childless -- and anxious to become a mother herself. 
 Dear Will explores the myths and challenges of modern romance and parenthood from the man's point of view. Author Karl Ackerman has written a funny, perceptive, and honest book about family -- the one you're born into, and the one you create.

Jack Townsend attempts to rekindle his romance with Nina Lawrence, a relationship that turned sour en route to the altar, in a debut novel about modern love, the Church, opera, basketball, and landscaping. A first novel.

Romance

Thorndike Pr

An instant best-seller when first published in 1841, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens, with illustrations by Frederick Catherwood, continues to draw readers who want to see the ruins of Copan, Quirigua, Palenque, and Uxmal as this American lawyer and British artist first saw them on muleback more than 150 years ago. Although Stephens and Catherwood traveled without maps into the wilds of a region gripped by civil war, their detailed descriptions and drawings of the great "lost" civilization gave birth to Maya archaeology and led many others to follow in their footsteps. This new edition brings the best of both Stephens's narrative and Catherwood's drawings into a single volume with an added selection of photographs - many never before published - that expand a reader's view of the Maya ruins, the cities and scenes along the journey, and the native peoples whose cultures endure today. The illustrations include nineteenth-century scenes by the renowned photographer Eadweard Muybridge, portraits of Guatemalan Indians from the Smithsonian's Emilio Herbruger collection, and Osbert Salvin's early photos of Copan. More recent photographs of Guatemala by Jacques and Parney VanKirk and of the Lacandon in Mexico by Gertrude Duby Blom capture the timeless nature of the lands of the Maya that persists into the twentieth century. Now enhanced with historical and modern photographs, this new, one-volume edition of Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is organized for the traveler by place and omits descriptions of Stephens's voyages to and from the region and his short trips to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, as well as some long historical digressions and anecdotes. It will remain a classic of travel literature and Maya archaeology.

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

History

Stephens, John LLoyd

Ancient Civilizations

Smithsonian

Drawing on trips to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 1839 and 1842, the author describes his findings of a dozen archaeological sites

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

Catherwood, Frederick

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

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The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

Dear Will: A Novel

Dear Will: A Novel

The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan