Jonathan Dee

Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout the course of their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their growing children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.

A Novel

The Privileges

"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts, in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a 'secure location.' When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image. The collision of these two men and their very different worlds--rural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthy --propels [this] novel"--

The Locals

A guide to the secrets of rune-reading, an ancient predictive art, that teaches you how to lay out runes and interpret them instantly. Once the sacred alphabet of the Germanic people of Northern Europe, Runes (meaning a secret or mystery) are more than 2,000 years old. Runes were words of power, once carved on amulets, rings, and weapons, and found as inscriptions on tombstones. The 1st Rune, Fehu, is connected with cattle, and since wealth was measured in the number of cows a person owned, it has an underlying meaning of material wealth. The 11th Rune, Isa, literally means "ice," signifying danger and the probability of slipping up. Likewise, the 17th Rune, Tiwaz, shares its significance with the North Star as an aid to navigation and charting life's path. In this insightful book, each of the runes is fully described, together with the symbolic images and celestial phenomena associated with them. Methods of laying out, or "casting" the Runes are described in order to give a full and comprehensive reading to answer any question. There are six spreads to choose from, from Odin's Rune, a simple reading with one rune stone, to using up to nine runes for deeper insight into the past, present, and future.

Learn to use this ancient code for insight, direction, and divination

The Nordic Book of Runes

A successful advertising executive approaching retirement, Gene Trowbridge lives a peaceful existence in a Long Island suburb, until his friendship with a reclusive neighbor forces him to make a painful ethical decision

The Liberty Campaign

Locals

The Lover of History

The face is the first thing we focus on when meeting any new person—we automatically assess a person’s mood, feelings, and intentions by what we “read” on that person’s face. We consider some people to have “kind” eyes or a grumpy look. This book will introduce you to the ancient Chinese art of face reading so that you can gain insight into the personalities of your loved ones and those you meet. Discover aspects of personality you never knew existed! Chinese face reading demonstrates that faces are open books, and their individual features provide the keys to interpreting their message. The author explores the significance of: Twenty-three basic eye shapes Twenty-three eyebrow conformations Thirteen ear types Thirteen basic nose profiles Nine mouth types Along the way the author discusses the subtle distinctions within the cheekbones, the lips, the forehead, and facial creases.

The Only Book You'll Ever Need

Face Reading Plain & Simple

Though perhaps less well-known here than its Western counterpart, Chinese astrology is every bit as illuminating and provides an equally valuable shortcut to self-knowledge. Jonathan Dee, the well-respected author of several books on astrology, tarot, and fortune-telling, reveals all the mysteries of the art in this informative volume. Filled with legends, charts, and history, it contains all of the essentials for working out your Chinese horoscope including the animal signs for each birthday year, month, and hour. Each sign receives a richly detailed and enlightening explanation. Among the amusing and informative tidbits here: The rat is considered to be the sign of charm and is noted for its shrewdness, enterprise, and wealth. Rats are also prosperous, entrepreneurial, obsessive, anxious, bossy, and mean. The ox is the sign of tenacity and prosperity and a symbol of fertility and muscular strength. People born under the ox are patient, contemplative, eloquent, chauvinistic, petty, and grumpy. The monkey is lively, complex, charming, diplomatic, and agile. Monkeys are also dishonest, sarcastic, lacking respect, and restless. Chinese Astrology, Plain and Simple is an accessible introduction that enlightens, entertains, and informs.

Chinese Astrology, Plain & Simple

With beautiful four color throughout, this is a highly informative look at one of the oldest and most popular forms of future-casting. The history, origins, and symbolism of each card in the 78-card Tarot deck is fully explained, as are the spread techniques, how to read the cards, and--unique to this book--when to time the readings, which is a critical aspect to the Tarot.

An Illustrated Guide to the Tarot

John O'Hara

The National Book Award-winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called "the real F. Scott Fitzgerald" Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age. With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell's Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Ten North Frederick

Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point. Once a privileged and loving couple, widely envied and respected, it takes just one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together. Separated from her husband, Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave their family home for Manhattan, where Helen must build a new life for them both. Thrust back into the working world, Helen takes a job in PR - her first in many years - and discovers she has a rare gift: she can convince arrogant men to admit their mistakes, spinning crises into second chances. Faced with the fallout from her own marriage, and her daughter's increasingly distant behaviour, Helen finds that the capacity for forgiveness she nurtures so successfully in her professional life is far harder to apply to her personal one. A Thousand Pardons is an elegant, audacious, gripping and sharply observed novel about a marriage in ruins and a family in crisis; about the limits of self-invention and the seduction of self-destruction. Praise for Jonathan Dee: 'A deliciously sophisticated engine of literary darkness.' Jonathan Franzen. 'Dee is graceful; articulate and perceptive, and often hilariously funny... full of elegance, vitality and complexity.' New York Times. 'The Privileges is verbally brilliant, intellectually astute and intricately knowing. It is also very funny and a great, great pleasure to read. Jonathan Dee is a wonderful writer.' Richard Ford. 'The Privileges is a pitch-perfect evocation of a particular stratum of New York society as well as a moving meditation on family and romantic love. The tour de force first chapter alone is worth the price of admission.' Jay McInerney.

A Thousand Pardons

Chinese Astrology Plain & Simple

Find out anyone's Chinese horoscope using the animal signs and feng shui elements that are at the core of this divination system.

Simply Chinese Astrology

Sasha Fenton

Enhance your self-awareness and learn what the future holds with this lunar book and kit that contains the magical Moon Signs, a book with the key to powerful, astrological truths; a Moon Wheel to locate your rising sign and moon’s house; a moon journal; and a lovely, ready-to-wear silver moon talisman. “An attractive, handy resource.”—New Age Retailer.

Reveal Your Inner Feelings and Discover Your Future

The Moon Sign Kit

Most of us know our sign of the zodiac, our sun sign, but this is only part of our astrological make-up. Our sun sign indicates the image we portray, whilst our moon sign reveals our true inner nature. This book shows how to understand your moon sign.

Moon Signs

An easy-to-follow illustrated guide to the mysteries of the Tarot.--Amazon.com.

Tarot

Liberty Campaign

Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility. The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. BONUS: This edition contains a The Privileges discussion guide.

Dani Shapiro

Thirty years after his family and career are destroyed by an affair with one of his patients, psychoanalyst Solomon Grossman finds a chance for redemption when he learns where his grown son is living. Tour.

Picturing the Wreck

Previously published as Simply Fortune Telling with Playing Cards. There is a certain romance attached to playing cards: from the riverboat gamblers on the Mississippi to genteel parlor games and the current popular surge in poker tournaments. How many of us while away our bored moments with a game of solitaire? This user-friendly guide will show you how to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a fun and simple tool for telling the future. Learn the past, present, and future with a regular deck of playing cards—no trivia, no special talents, no psychic ability. If you can read this, you can learn fortune telling with a regular deck of cards. The author explains the meaning of each of the 52 cards in the deck, plus the Joker, presents several layouts for general readings, and answers specific questions.

Jonathan Dee

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