Picador At The Movies

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "Part economic analysis, part social history, part cri de coeur, this crushing testimonial is the most important book...

A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year Johnny Mad Dog, age sixteen, is a member of a rebel faction bent on seizing control of...

Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating...

"..., People (four stars, Critic's Choice)   "A complex and satisfying dish: a story of intimate strangers..."

With stolen cash and tickets booked through a shady travel agency, Marlon Cruz and his girlfriend, Reina, have smuggled themselves out of Colombia and into the...

"..., and that in the twinkling of an eye I could also lose myself. While I was running away from the policemen, I pictured her..."

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent And when did you last see your father? Was it...

"...Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent And when did you last see your father? Was it.... Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent   And when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by your own ..."

Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of...

"...Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of.... Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shattered when his..."

A Picador Paperback Original A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie...

"...A Picador Paperback Original A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie.... A Picador Paperback Original   A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie..."

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver...

"...A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver.... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year   Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson.   A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx Is Burning is the story of two epic ..."

From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur When a lonely old man is found dead in...

"...From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur When a lonely old man is found dead in.... From Gold Dagger Award--winning author..."

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement tells the story of a young woman's search for her fiancé, whom she believes might still...

".... In 1915, he's been awarded some money and mentioned in dispatches for taking a few prisoners. Three..."

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely,...

"...as casually as he'd bring a gallon of rocky road. Picture our mother's surprise. She kept rubber bands..."

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true...

"...Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true.... The #1 New York Times Bestseller   An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year   Now a Major Motion Picture   Running with Scissors is the true..."

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a...

"...The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a.... The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb..."

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art...

"...Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art.... Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize   Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When..."