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Biographies & Memoirs

Gene Wilder

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins Entertainment

Young Frankenstein: A Novel

Romance

Mel Brooks

Gilbert Pearlman (Adapter)

Historical

Ballantine Books

World War I has almost come to an end, but for a young Minneapolis railway employee and amateur actor named Paul Peachy, whose marriage has become one-sided, it's time to enlist.  Shipped off to France, Peachy realizes how out of his depth he is―and never more so than when he is captured.  Risking everything, Peachy―who as a child of immigrants speaks German―makes the reckless decision to impersonate one of the enemy's most famous spies.As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller, Peachy enters a world he never even knew existed―a world of sumptuous living, world-weary men and available women. But when one of those women―Annie Breton, a young, wary and beautiful courtesan―turns out to be more than she seems, both Peachy's and Annie's lives are transformed forever.

My French Whore (Lib)(CD)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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The beloved actor and screenwriter's second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from accomplished adagios with the Cleveland Orchestra to having a complete breakdown on stage.  If he hadn't poured a glass of water down the throat of a tuba, maybe he wouldn't have been sent to a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany.  But it's in that serene place that Jeremy meets Clara Mulpas, whom he tries his hardest to seduce.  Clara is so beautiful that Jeremy finds it impossible to keep from trying to find a chink in her extraordinary reserve and elegance.  He finds himself reflexively flirting to get a reaction―after all, a tease and a wink have always worked before, with women back home.  But flirting probably isn't the best way to appeal to a woman who was married to a dumb brute and doesn't want to have anything more to do with men. Jeremy isn't sure how to press his case―but he won't give up. Wilder's prose is elegant, spare and affecting.  But it's his romantic's eye for the intense emotions that animate a real love story that makes The Woman Who Wouldn't an unforgettable book.

The Woman Who Wouldn't

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Books by Gene Wilder