Jean Zimmerman, Author . Free Press $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-86959-9
In the past century, homemakers have become a dying breed. The domestic achievements of our mothers and grandmothers have been devalued and replaced by the easy options of fast food, hired help and prefabricated products of all kinds; meanwhile, the
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Jean Zimmerman, Author . Harcourt $26 (399p) ISBN 978-0-15-101065-3
In 1659, 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam as a highly independent, unattached "she-merchant" who collected debts from a Dutch cousin's customers and sought out buyers for European merchandise. When she died...
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Jean Zimmerman, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-47789-5
Zimmerman (Breaking with Tradition) recounts how the proud tradition of American seafaring men has been usurped by the strutting, party-animal naval aviator popularized by the movie Top Gun. ``They claim to love women but what the pilots really get...
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Jean Zimmerman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101447-7
In one of his most controversial paintings, John Singer Sargent captured the unconventionality of a young couple in simple street clothes that belie their wealthy Gilded Age roots. Zimmerman’s (Manhattan) unsentimental depiction of vibrant Edith...
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Jean Zimmerman. Viking, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-02364-6
Zimmerman (The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty) uses 1663 New Amsterdam as the intriguing backdrop for her promising fiction debut. The prologue sets the stage for the eventual integration of
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Jean Zimmerman. Viking, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-01485-9
The prologue of Zimmerman’s superior historical thriller will suck most readers in instantly. On the night of May 19, 1876, 22-year-old Hugo Delegate awaits the arrival of the police at a house overlooking Manhattan’s Gramercy Park, the site of a...
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Jean Zimmerman, read by George Guidall. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-105-4
In Zimmerman's historical thriller, set in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam circa 1663, orphans are mysteriously disappearing. Searching for the missing children are a young trader and orphan named Blandine von Couvering and British spy Edward...
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