The Missing Thread Format:Hardcover New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time

Full of razor-sharp observations and generous prose

an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road

Nina's career as a freelance journalist isn't going in the direction she wants

But nothing he possesses is as unique or as dreadful as his latest purchase off the Internet: a one-of-a-kind curiosity that arrives at his door in a black heart-shaped box

The Missing Thread Format:Hardcover New York Times Book ReviewA Women's History of the Ancient World A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For