"Ana and Reid needed a lucky break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear--affordable housing lottery. They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning...

'The story of two people who, despite their conventional upbringings, thrived in the raucous decade known as the Gay Nineties, or America's decadent version of the Gilded Age. The daughter of a wagonmaker, Susie Tillett was raised amid the horse and hemp farms of the Kentucky Bluegrass; Arthur Jack was the oldest son and heir of a successful Atlanta merchant. By the time they met in 1892, when they both were in their early thirties, Susie had become...