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Catalog #28

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NonFiction
gence files, Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler explain
what really happened to Scorpion.
Nonfiction
All Hopped Up and
Ready to Go: Music from the
Streets of New York 1927-77
13 Things That Don't
Make Sense: The Most
Baffling Scientific
Mysteries of Our Time
Tony Fletcher
Michael Brooks
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I
n an age when science is supposed to be king, scientists
are beset by experimental results they simply can't explain. But, if the past is anything to go by, these anomalies
contain the seeds of future revolutions. While taking readers on an entertaining tour d'horizon of the strangest of
scientific findings - involving everything from our lack of
free will to Martian methane that offers new evidence of
life on the planet - Michael Brooks argues that the things
we don't understand are the key to what we are about to
discover.
All Hands Down:
The True Story of the
Soviet Attack on the USS
Scorpion
rom Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of
Keith Moon, comes an incisive history of New York's
seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our
culture. Fletcher paints a vibrant picture of mid-twentiethcentury New York and the ways in which its indigenous
art, theater, literature, and political movements converged
to create such unique music. With great attention to the
colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet
player Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the
Ramones, he takes us through bebop, the Latin music
scene, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk, and hiphop as they emerged from the neighborhood streets of
Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn, the Bronx,
and Queens.
Almost Human:
Making Robots Think
Lee Gutkind
Kenneth Sewell
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orty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of
ninety-nine lives. The tragedy occurred during the height
of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet
Union, and it followed by only weeks the sinking of a Soviet sub near Hawaii. Now in All Hands Down, drawing
on hundreds of hours of interviews, many with exclusive
sources in the naval and intelligence communities, as well
as recently declassified United States and Soviet intelli-
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he high bay at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is alive and hyper night and day with
the likes of Hyperion, which traversed the Antarctic, and
Zoe, the world’s first robot scientist, now back home. Robot Segways learn to play soccer, while other robots go on
treasure hunts or are destined for hospitals and museums.
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Award-winning author Lee Gutkind immersed himself in
this frenzied subculture, following these young roboticists
and their bold conceptual machines from Pittsburgh to
NASA and to the most barren and arid desert on earth.
He makes intelligible their discoveries and stumbling
points in this lively behind-the-scenes work.
icy challenges facing the U.S.: the Middle East, Russia,
China, Europe, the Developing World, the changing nature of power in a globalized world, and what Brzezinski
has called the global political awakening.
American Sign
Language:
A Step-By-Step
Guide to Signing
Always Follow
the Elephants:
More Surprising Facts
and Misleading Myths
about Our Health and the
World We Live in
Anahad O’Conner
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n this follow-up to the bestselling Never Shower in a
Thunderstorm, New York Times columnist Anahad
O’Connor uncovers the truth behind a hundred more old
wives tales and conventional-wisdom cures. O’Connor
investigates nagging questions of domestic safety, such as
whether you can get radiation poisoning from standing too
close to a microwave. (You’ll actually be exposed to more
watts from your cell phone.) He unearths astounding firstaid “MacGyverisms,” such as the attempts by Vietnam
War battlefield medics and professional sports stars to seal
wounds with super glue.
Suzie Chafin
W
hile learning a new language isn’t a “knack” for
everyone, Knack American Sign Language finally
makes it easy. The clear layout, succinct information, and
topic-specific sign language partnered with high-quality
photos enable quick learning. By a “bilingual” author
whose parents were both deaf, and photographed by a
design professor at the leading deaf university, Gallaudet,
it covers all the basic building blocks of communication.
The Anglo Files:
A Field Guide to the British
Sarah Lyall
America and the World:
Conversations on the Future
of American Foreign Policy
Brent Scowcroft and
Zbigniew Brzezinski
T
wo of the most respected figures in American foreign
policy are Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft-both former National Security Advisors under markedly
different administrations. In America and the World they
dissect, in spontaneous and unscripted conversations moderated by David Ignatius, the most significant foreign pol-
S
arah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved
to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known
for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted
country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights,
the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the
hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted their own
teeth), she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular
transitional era in British life. The roller-coaster decade of
Tony Blair's New Labor government was an increasingly
materialistic time when old-world symbols of aristocratic
privilege and stiff-upper-lip sensibility collided with modern consumerism, overwrought emotion, and a new (but
still unsuccessful) effort to make the trains run on time.
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NonFiction
Barney Ross: The Life
of a Jewish Fighter
The Big Book of
Self-Reliant Living
Douglas Century
Walter Szykitka, ed.
B
orn Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his fathers murder, his
mothers nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his
three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he
turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the
family, Ross became a petty thief, a gambler, a messenger
boy for Al Capone, and, eventually, an amateur boxer.
Turning professional at nineteen, he would capture the
lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight titles
over the course of a ten-year career. This first biography of
one of the most colorful boxers of the twentieth century is
a galvanizing account of an emblematic life: a revelation of
both an extraordinary athlete and a remarkable man.
R
ural homesteaders and urban apartment-dwellers
alike will find a mother lode of practical information
packed into this completely revised and updated edition of
the ultimate how-to handbook for all generations. A selective compendium of public-domain documents, it brings
together in one volume a wealth of knowledge and useful
instruction on just about every imaginable aspect of selfsufficiency from building a dwelling and growing food to
raising children, using tools of all kinds, and, yes, getting
more mileage out of your car.
The Bomber Boys:
Heroes Who Flew the
B-17s in World War II
Travis L. Ayres
The Beautiful Soul of
John Woolman,
Apostle of Abolition
Thomas P. Slaughter
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humble tailor known at first only to the other Quakers who encountered him at meetings in New Jersey,
Philadelphia, and New England, Woolman became a prophetic voice for the entire Anglo-American world when he
spoke out against the evils of slavery. Thomas P. Slaughter’s deft, dramatic narrative reveals how it was that the
mystic Woolman became an unforgettable public figure,
his gospel infused with a benign confidence that ordinary
people could achieve spiritual perfection.
n World War II, there were many ways to die. But
nothing offered more fatal choices than being inside a
B-17 bomber above Nazi-occupied Europe. From the
hellish storms of enemy flak and relentless strafing of Luftwaffe fighters, to mid-air collisions, mechanical failure, and
simple bad luck, it's a wonder any man would volunteer
for such dangerous duty. But many did. Some paid the
ultimate price. And some made it home. But in the end,
all would achieve victory. Here, author Travis L. Ayres has
gathered a collection of previously untold personal accounts of combat and camaraderie aboard the B-17
Bombers that flew countless sorties against the enemy, as
related by the men who lived and fought in the air-and
survived.
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NonFiction
The Book of Mychal:
The Surprising Life and
Heroic Death of Father
Mychal Judge
Bringing It to the Table:
On Farming and Food
Wendell Berry
Michael Daly
H
is death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, Father
Mychal Judge was officially the first to go. A loving priest
with a gift for the gab-gregarious yet humble, a healer with
the ability to wipe away a widow's tears and put a smile on
a fireman's face. And on September 11th Father Mike
rushed to the fires at the World Trade Center as quickly
as those who fought them, losing his own life while tirelessly ministering to New York's bravest.
O
nly a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins
of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber
could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long
before Whole Foods organic produce was available at
your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity
of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his
writing.
Build Your Own
Plug-In Hybrid
Electric Vehicle
BrandDigital: Simple Ways
Top Brands Succeed
in the Digital World
Seth Leitman
Allen P. Adamson
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n his best-selling book, BrandSimple: How the Best
Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed, Allen P.
Adamson showed in a straightforward manner how powerful brands get built. In a similarly engaging style, BrandDigital explains that in the quickly accelerating digital marketplace the basic principles of branding have not
changed, but rather, are more important than ever. He
clearly demonstrates that brand professionals have an unprecedented opportunity to use digital tools and media to
learn more about their customers and offer experiences
that better reinforce customer relationships - and build
brand equity.
Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Plug-In Hybrid
Electric Vehicle from the Ground Up. Written by
clean energy guru and electric vehicle expert Seth Leitman, this hands-on guide gives you the latest technical information and easy-to-follow instructions for building a
plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).
Bumping Into Geniuses:
My Life Inside the
Rock and Roll Business
Danny Goldberg
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NonFiction
A
Can I Freeze It?:
How to Use the
Most Versatile Appliance in
Your Kitchen
giant of the music industry grants an all-access pass
to the world of rock and roll, with mesmerizing stories of thirty-five years spent working with legends.
The Burn Farm
Susie Theodorou
Michael Benson
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n Can I Freeze it? veteran food writer and stylist Susie
Theodorou explains the tips, tricks, and rules of freezing food, from containers and wrappers (foil or Tupperware?) to the best methods for retaining moisture and flavor to what ingredients and dishes can and can’t be frozen.
She provides a wealth of recipes, along with color photographs, for whole and partial dishes.
S
heila LaBarre liked to troll the personal ads and
homeless shelters, looking for men whom society had
rejected for one reason or another—men she could easily
dominate both verbally and sexually. One by one, she invited them to her remote New Hampshire farmhouse,
where she engaged them in S&M. But over time, sex gave
way to brutal acts of torture as she mercilessly flogged and
beat her captives until they confessed to committing unspeakable acts. Once satisfied that they had paid for their
sins, Sheila savagely slaughtered them and burned their
remains on her farm.
Buy Ketchup in May and
Fly at Noon:
A Guide to the
Best Time to Buy This,
Do That and Go There
The Cartoon History of
the Modern World, Part II:
From the Bastille to
Baghdad
Larry Gonick
M
ore than thirty years ago, master cartoonist and historian Larry Gonick began the epic task of creating
a smart, accurate, and entertaining illustrated history of the
world. In this, the fifth and final book of this beloved and
critically acclaimed series, Gonick finally brings us up to
the modern day.
Chinese Animal Painting
Made Easy
Mark Di Vincenzo
Rebecca Yue
H
ave you ever wanted to know the best day of the
week to buy groceries or go out to dinner? Have
you ever wondered about the best time of day to ask
someone out on a date—or for a raise? Buy Ketchup in
May and Fly at Noon tells you the best time—of the day, of
the week, of the month or of the year—to do almost anything.
A
complete guide to painting pandas, horses, elephants, and 47 other beloved creatures in the traditional Chinese brush-style.
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NonFiction
Church Signs Across America
Steve and Pam Paulson
C
look forward to. Women are used to being told that once
we get off the career track, we can't get back on. In The
Comeback, Emma Gilbey Keller proves that this isn't true:
More and more, companies today are looking at the value
of hiring returning mothers. In this encouraging book, Keller tells the stories of seven very different women who
sought to strike a balance between demanding careers and
budding families.
Cookin' with Coolio:
5 Star Meals
at a 1 Star Price
hurch Signs Across America celebrates the wit,
charm, and poetry of church signs from every state in
the United States At once reverent and witty, these signs
offer fascinating glimpses into American life that are variously humorous, inspirational, kitschy, backward, and
kind-and occasionally all those things at once.
Clean Breaks:
500 New Ways
to See the World
Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith
C
Coolio
C
oolio started making thirty-minute meals when he
was ten years old and has since developed a whole
new cuisine: Ghetto Gourmet. His recipes are built
around solid comfort foods with a healthy twist that don't
break the bank.
The DC Comics Guide
to Digitally Drawing Comics
lean Breaks unearths 500 unique experiences and
Freddie E. Williams
new ways to travel that make a real difference to the
lives of local people and the planet. It lets you discover a
wealth of new adventures from sleeping in houseboats in
Kerala and witnessing the zebra migration in Botswana to
taking the train-hotel from Paris to Madrid.
The Comeback:
Seven Stories
of Women Who Went
from Career to Family
and Back Again
Emma Gilbey Keller
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rtists! Gain incredible superpowers…with the help of
your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally
Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and
paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely on the computer.
Dead Pet: Send Your Best
Little Buddy Off in Style
Andrew Kirk & Jane Moseley
W
e've all heard the chatter in magazines and on television about off-ramps and on-ramps, decreased
earning power, increased competition, too much readjustment, too little flexibility, no jobs, no hope--nothing to
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P
lanning a sensitive send-off for your dear, dead Fluffy,
Fido, or Flipper is one small way of assuaging the inner hurt and sending him or her gently into that good
night. This book guides you through this most difficult life
experience rom the moment you realize that your pets
days are numbered (or have passed), right through to the
sticky details of deciding between an old-fashioned interment or a spectacular cremation.
about the remains of a philosopher who was hounded
from country to country on charges of atheism? Why
would Descartes' bones take such a strange, serpentine
path over the next 350 years--a path intersecting some of
the grandest events imaginable: the birth of science, the
rise of democracy, the mind-body problem, the conflict
between faith and reason?
Discovering Words
Defining New Moon:
Vocabulary Workbook
for Unlocking the SAT, ACT,
GED, and SSAT
Julian Walker
Brian Leaf, M.A.
W
hy is Bella desolate and haggard? Will Jacob win
her over with his infectious affability? Can Edward
dare to flout the rules and summon the belligerent ire of
the Volturi? State your allegiance: Team Edward or Team
Jacob? Join Bella, Jacob, and Edward as you learn more
than 600 vocabulary words for the *SAT, ACT, GED,
and SSAT With hundreds of new vocabulary words, this
book can be used completely on its own or as a follow-up
to Defining Twilight.
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or 1500 years English has built new words or taken
them from other languages and changed their form
and often their meaning to make them the words we use
today. When we explore the journeys, arrivals and changes
of these words, they present us with some extraordinary
stories.
Do the Right Thing:
Inside the Movement
That's Bringing Common
Sense Back to America
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal
History of the Conflict
Between Faith and Reason
Mike Huckabee
Russell Shorto
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O
n a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the
Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential
and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a
cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later,
the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France.
Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much
hen Governor Mike Huckabee entered the Republican presidential race, he was the ultimate
dark horse, with almost no money, no consultants, and no
name recognition beyond Arkansas. But Huckabee had
one big advantage: a common sense message that connected with millions of people, and not just his fellow
evangelical Christians. He spoke about family values, fair
taxes, and helping hard-working, middle-class Americans
in a tough economy. And to the dismay of some Republicans, he talked about fighting Wall Street greed and K
Street corruption.
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Dogs Can Sign, Too:
A Breakthrough Method
for Teaching Your Dog
to Communicate
Sean Senechal
R
omantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn't always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often
it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a
thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide
Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of
the widely praised Whatever You Do, Don't Run details
his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but
also in South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia--places
he loves, despite how much it feels like they might just be
trying to kill him.
I
magine being able to ask your poodle, “Who’s at the
door?” and having her respond, “Its Katy.” Or asking
your golden retriever, “Do you want a treat?” and him
responding, “No, water.” Or asking your Border collie,
“Which toy do you want?” and getting the response,
“Stick.” If you’ve ever wondered what dogs would tell us if
they could, now you can find out. The K9 Sign system
teaches dogs to communicate to us–making it a first in any
dog training book category.
Don't Dump the Dog:
Outrageous Stories and
Simple Solutions to Your
Worst Dog Behavior
Problems
Randy Grim
Drawing Manga Animals,
Chibis, and Other
Adorable Creatures
J.C. Amberlyn
T
he world of manga is filled with strange creatures and
adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and
heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular
ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring
manga artists how to create the funny critters that populate
girls' manga and the more gritty, gothic creatures found in
boys' manga.
Exploiting Chaos:
150 Ways to
Spark Innovation
During Times of Change
D
oes Randy Grim-whose urban dog shelter, Stray
Rescue, recently won $1,000,000 in the ZooToo
Shelter makeover contest, and who is now starring in the
corresponding reality series, Rescue Me-really think bad
dog owners means bad people who own dogs? Or people
who own bad dogs? Grim is a straight shooter, and he
doesn't really care about the semantics of that phrase.
What he cares about is helping people keep their dogs.
Don't Look Behind You!:
A Safari Guide's Encounters
with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
Peter Allison
Jeremy Gutsche
T
he hottest trend spotter in North America reveals
powerful strategies for thriving in any economic climate. Did you know that Hewlett Packard, Disney, Hyatt,
MTV, CNN, Microsoft, Burger King, and GE all started
during periods of economic recession? Periods of uncertainty fuel tremendous opportunity, but the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game get changed. Exploiting
Chaos is the ultimate business survival guide for all those
looking to change the world.
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A Few Seconds of Panic:
A Sportswriter Plays
in the NFL
The Friends We Keep:
A Woman's Quest for
the Soul of Friendship
Stefan Fatsis
Sarah Zacharias Davis
D
rawing on rare access to an NFL team as players,
coaches and facilities, the author of The New York
Times bestseller Word Freak trains to become a professional-caliber placekicker. As he sharpens his skills, he
gains surprising insight into the daunting challenges, physical, psychological, and intellectual that pro athletes must
master.
D
uring a particularly painful time in her life, Sarah
Zacharias Davis learned how delightful–and wounding–women can be in friendship. She saw how some
friendships end badly, others die slow deaths, and how a
chance acquaintance can become that enduring friend you
need.
Frommer's 500 Places to
Take Your Kids Before
They Grow Up
First as Tragedy,
Then as Farce
Holly Hughes & Julie Duchaine
Slavoj Zizek
T
I
n this bravura analysis of the current global crisisfollowing on from his bestselling Welcome to the Desert of the Real-Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of
the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during
the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the
liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11,
came the collapse of the economic utopia of global market
capitalism at the end of 2008. Marx argued that history
repeats itself-occuring first as tragedy, the second time as
farce-and Zizek, following Herbert Marcuse, notes here
that the repetition as farce can be even more terrifying
than the original tragedy.
his bestselling guide takes you across town and
around the globe to 500 of the most exciting places
on earth. With more than 40 new destinations, this revised
edition is packed with things to see, do, and explore--from
the Painted Desert (United States) and the cave homes of
Coober Pedy (Australia) to a camel safari (India) and
Dracula's Castle (Romania).
Frommer's 500 Places
Where You Can Make
a Difference
Andrew Mersmann
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I
nspired by the eye-opening events of 9/11, the Asian
tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, more and more people are waking up to the value of service - and realizing
that their vacation may be the best place to incorporate it
into their hectic lives. Even more profoundly, many travelers are deciding that the best way to recharge may not be
lying on a beach, but stepping outside of their normal routine to make a difference in the lives of others. The result
is an experience that allows travelers to explore a culture
in great depth, make new friends, and come home feeling
that they have learned and benefited even more than those
they have helped.
The Gastronomy of Marriage:
A Memoir of Food and Love
Michelle Maistro
humble working-class roots who was hired as head coach
and general manager of the San Francisco Forty Niners in
January 1979 and became the architect of what is arguably
the greatest ten-year run in NFL history.
Ghoulish Goodies
Sharon Bowers
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at, drink, and enjoy the creepy yuckiness of Monster
Eyeballs, Chocolate Spider Clusters, Buried Alive
Cupcakes, and Screaming Red Punch. In her colorful collection of frightful foods, Sharon Parrish Bowers shares
the fun of baking, decorating, and indulging in delicious
treats that celebrate witches and jack o' lanterns, ghosts and
graveyards.
Going Dutch: How England
Plundered Holland's Glory
W
hen Michelle Maisto meets Rich–like her, a closet
writer with a fierce love of books and good food–
their single-mindedness at the table draws them together,
and meals become a stage for their long courtship. Finally
engaged, they move in together, but sitting down to shared
meals each night–while working at careers, trying to write,
and falling into the routines that come to define a home–
soon feels like something far different from their first dinner together.
The Genius: How Bill Walsh
Reinvented Football
and Created
an NFL Dynasty
David Harris
T
Lisa Jardine
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n November 5, 1688, William of Orange, Protestant ruler of the Dutch Republic, landed at Torbay
in Devon with a force of twenty thousand men. The Glorious Revolution that followed forced James II to abdicate,
and William and his wife, Mary, were jointly crowned king
and queen on April 11, 1689. How was it that this almost
bloodless coup took place with such apparent ease yet was
not recognized as the full-blooded invasion and conquest it
undoubtedly was?
he Genius is the gripping and definitive account of
Bill Walsh's career and how he built a football dynasty from the rubble of a fallen franchise. David Harris
gives a stellar account of the silver-haired sophisticate from
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The Grand Inquisitor's
Manual: A History
of Terror in the
Name of God
Jonathan Kirsch
T
he inquisitorial apparatus that was first invented in
the Middle Ages remained in operation for the next
six-hundred years, and it has never been wholly dismantled. As we shall see, an unbroken thread links the friarinquisitors who set up the rack and the pyre in southern
France in the early thirteenth century to the torturers and
executioners of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in the
mid-twentieth century. Nor does the thread stop at Auschwitz or the Gulag; it can be traced through the Salem witch
trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the internment of
Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Hollywood
blacklists of the McCarthy era, and even the interrogation
cells at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
The Great Wall
John Man
C
hina's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the
world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb
the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we
know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied,
too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-trip.
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ncouraging readers to be intelligent and skillful in
their practice, this new collection by Thich Nhat
Hanh outlines the essential steps by which we can all obtain real and lasting happiness. Each day, we perform the
tasks of everyday life without thought or awareness - walking, sitting, working, eating, driving, and much more. But
Hanh points out that if we remain truly aware of our actions, no matter the task we're performing, we can stay
engaged in our lives and better our outlook through mindfulness. This key practice is the foundation for this accessible, easy-to-understand volume, and an invaluable tool for
change for both seasoned Buddhist practitioners and lay
readers interested in bettering their lives through full
awareness.
Hatheads: One Man +
Two Knitting Needles
= 50 Fun Hat Designs
Trond Anfinnsen
A
fter teaching himself to knit, author Trond Anfinnsen found that pull-on hatsaka beanies or skullies
were the perfect-size project. As his pile of hats grew, so
did his knitting skills, and soon he began personalizing the
hats for family, friends, and friends of friends. Each person received a unique hat designed to suit his or her coloring, personality, and style all for free. Trond eventually
teamed with photographer Klaus Skrudland to document
what had become an interactive art project, taking portraits
of each recipient in his or her hat. Together, the two created, gave away, and photographed more than 200 hats.
Havanas in Camelot:
Personal Essays
William Styron
Happiness: Essential
Mindfulness Practices
Thich Nhat Hanh
A
fter the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his
memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron
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The History of Science:
A Beginner's Guide
wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of
his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief
friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the
power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of
Francois Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James
Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark
Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and
an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad:
The Story of Acrassicauda
Andy Capper & Gabi Sifre
Sean F. Johnston
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rom GMOs to WMD, science is controversial and
unavoidable. This book charts its progress since prehistory and reveals its role in shaping our future. Drawing
on intellectual history, philosophy, and social studies,
Johnston offers a unique appraisal of both the history of
science and the nature of the evolving discipline. Science
has become a driving force of the modern world. Based
on its changeable past, where might it take us in the twenty
-first century?
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Homegrown Whole Grains
he inspirational story of Acrassicauda, an Iraqi heavy
metal band, whose members' struggle to stay alive as
their country fell into bloody insurgency echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
Sara Pitzer
Heroes and Villains:
Essays on Music, Movies,
Comics, and Culture
David Hajdu
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H
eroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by
David Hajdu, award-winning author of The TenCent Plague, Positively 4th Street, and Lush Life. Eclectic
and controversial, Hajdu's essays take on topics as varied
as pop music, jazz, the avant-garde, comic books, and our
downloading culture.
backyard field of grains? Yes, absolutely Wheat and
corn are rapidly replacing grass in the yards of dedicated locavores across the country. For adventurous
homeowners who want to get in on the movement, Homegrown Whole Grains is the place to begin. In addition to
providing information on wheat and corn, Homegrown
Whole Grains includes complete growing, harvesting, and
threshing instructions for barley, millet, oats, rice, rye,
spelt, and quinoa, and lighter coverage of several specialty
grains. Readers will also find helpful tips on processing
whole grains, from what to look for in a home mill to how
to dry corn and remove the hulls from barley and rice.
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How Not to Act Old: 185
Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick,
Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at
Least Not Totally Lame
I Am Neurotic:
(And So Are You)
Lianna Kong
Pamela Redmond Satran
S
ure, you can try to stay younger by exercising, coloring
your hair, and wearing stylish clothes—but how do you
respond when someone asks, "Do you Twitter?" How Not
to Act Old gives you simple ways to come back from over
the hill and to act as young as you look. Covering everything from old-people entertainment (cancel that dinner
party!) to old-people communication (it's called a "voice
mail," not a "message," and no one leaves or listens to them
anyway), Pamela Redmond Satran decodes the behaviors,
viewpoints, and cultural touchstones that separate you
from the hip young person you wish you still were. This
irreverent guide is essential for anyone who doesn't want to
embarrass their kids—or themselves.
Y
ou cant get through the day without checking to see if
your front door is locked three times. You take exactly two tablespoons of cream in your coffee which must
be swirling while you pour or else it just doesn’t take right.
The worst part is that you have to do all your neurotic habits discretely because you don’t want people to know.
You’re not alone though. iamneurotic.com is a collection
of anonymously submitted neuroses revealing the habits
that we take care to hide from others.
Inside a Thug's Heart
Tupac Shakur
How to Lose a War: More
Foolish Plans and Great
Military Blunders
Bill Fawcett, ed.
T
F
rom the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly
disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose a War chronicles some of the most remarkable strategic catastrophes
and doomed military adventures of overreaching invaders
and clueless defenders—whether the failure was a result of
poor planning, miscalculations, monumental ego, or failed
intelligence . . . or just a really stupid idea to begin with.
upac Shakur continues to remain a pop culture icon
and is still considered to be the greatest rapper ever.
Tupac continues to sell both in music and in books--The
Rose That Grew from Concrete is a national bestseller
with over 400,000 copies in print and his CD releases continue to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts. These letters
have never-before been published and his fans will want
more insight into not only his psyche but his time spent in
prison.
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Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs,
an Unexpected Journey,
and Me
in a young boys talent. And it reveals the devastating and
intense relationship between a boy and his father, who was
willing to go to any length to make his son a star.
Jon Katz
Julia Child: A Life
Laura Shapiro
I
n this wonderful book, Jon Katz, the owner of Bedlam
Farm, learns once again about the unexpected places
animals can take us. As trained hospice volunteers visiting
homes and nursing facilities in upstate New York, Katz
and his affectionate and intuitive border collie Izzy bring
comfort and canine companionship to people who most
need it. An eighty-year-old Alzheimers patient smiles for
the first time in months when she feels Izzys soft fur. A
retired logger joyfully remembers his own beloved dog. As
Izzy bonds with patients and Katz focuses on their families, the author begins to come to terms with his own life,
discovering dark realities he has never confronted.
Journey of a
Thousand Miles:
My Story
A
biography of Julia Child from the award-winning
author of Perfection Salad . Award-winning food
writer Laura Shapiro describes Child's unlikely career
path, from California party girl to cool-headed chief clerk
in a World War II spy station to bumbling amateur cook
and finally to the classes at the Cordon Bleu in Paris that
changed her life. Her marriage to Paul Child was at the
center of all her work. Unlike much of what has been written about Child, Shapiro portrays a woman who was quintessentially American, and whose open-hearted approach
to the kitchen was a lesson in how to live.
Keeping Poultry and
Rabbits on Scraps
Claude Goodchild and Alan Thompson
Lang Lang
B
orn in China to parents whose musical careers were
interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, Lang Lang
has emerged as one of the greatest pianists of our time.
Yet despite his fame, few in the West know of the heartwrenching journey from his early childhood as a prodigy
in an industrial city in northern China to his difficult years
in Beijing to his success today. Journey of a Thousand
Miles documents the remarkable, dramatic story of a family who sacrificed almost everything his parents marriage,
financial security, Lang Lang’s childhood, and their reputation in Chinas insular classical music world for the belief
F
irst issued in 1941, when the food shortages of World
War II made it essential for every scrap of kitchen
waste to be used to feed the nation, this book enabled the
meager wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands
of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat. Reissued
specially for the growing number of people interested in
organic and locally grown food sources, this quirky volume
contains everything that the small-scale raiser of rabbits or
poultry needs to know. Egg-production, buying, housing,
feeding, breeding, and diseases are all fully dealt with by
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The Knowledge Book:
Everything You Need to
Know to Get by in the
21st Century
experts, while simple and practical instructions are charmingly enhanced by the original illustrations.
Kill Bin Laden:
A Delta Force Commander's
Account of the Hunt
for the World's Most
Wanted Man
Dalton Fury
T
he mission was to kill the most wanted man in the
world—an operation of such magnitude that it couldn’t be handled by just any military or intelligence force.
The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the
task was handed to roughly forty members of Americas
super secret counterterrorist unit formally known as 1st
Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more
popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force. This
is the real story of the operation, the first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora, and the first book to
detail just how close Delta Force came to capturing bin
Laden, how close U.S. bombers and fighter aircraft came
to killing him, and exactly why he slipped through our fingers.
Kiss My Math: Showing
Pre-Algebra Who's Boss
Danica McKellar
National Geographic Society
I
ndispensable for every home, library, and office, The
Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of human-
kinds most significant ideas and achievements— explains
how they are linked and why they are important—and
packs everything into a single, irresistibly readable volume.
The richly illustrated pages burst with essential facts from
all major fields of knowledge: science, technology, philosophy, art, religion, economics, and more.
Letters to a Young Artist:
Straight-Up Advice
on Making a Life in
the Arts -- For Actors,
Performers, Writers, and
Artists of Every Kind
Anna Deavere Smith
F
rom the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smiths brass
tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, she addresses the full spectrum of issues that people starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame,
failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself
effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change.
L
ast year, actress and math genius Danica McKellar
made waves nationwide, challenging the math nerd
stereotype and giving girls the tools to ace tests and homework in her unique just-us-girls style. Now, in Kiss My
Math, McKellar empowers a new crop of girls ,7th to 9th
graders taking on the next level of mathematics: preAlgebra.
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Lists for Life: The Essential
Guide to Getting Organized
and Tackling Tough To-Dos
Rory Tahari
M
ary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS
Radio anchor to return home to Michigan when
her father's Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother
to shoulder alone. She chose to live her life by a different
set of priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside
accomplishment and recognition.
Mentally Incontinent
Joe Peacock
F
illed with more than 100 manageable, easily customizable checklists, resources, and suggestions, Lists for
Life offers must-have road maps for staying organized
through life's biggest transitions and most stressful situations .
The Longest Trip Home:
A Memoir
John Grogan
C
yberspace's answer to David Sedaris: raucous recollections from a man with a serious blabber-control
problem .In Mentally Incontinent, Joe delivers a batch of
hilarious and brand-new stories, featuring his misadventures with a stalker, his blind date with a fifteen-year-old,
and his frustrated attempts to convince his mom that he's
not gay. A natural storyteller and a self-proclaimed magnet
for weirdness, Joe Peacock has emerged from the bowels
of the Internet with some interesting tales to tell.
My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize:
The Fabricated Memoirs of
Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin
I
n his debut bestseller, Marley & Me, John Grogan
showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing
us the story of what came first. Before there was Marley,
there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and '70s.
Measure of the Heart:
Caring for a Parent with
Alzheimer's
Mary Ellen Geist
J
eff Martin was born in 1980. Jeff Martin made millions
in the stock market. Jeff Martin lost millions in the stock
market. Jeff Martin stopped a Chinese tank at Tiananmen
Square. Jeff Martin managed Michael Dukakis's 1988
presidential campaign. Jeff Martin cowrote Aliens 2: More
Aliens with James Cameron. Such is only a sample of the
amazing life of Jeff Martin, a modern-day renaissance
man/child, adept at everything and uniquely attuned to the
goings-on of our evolving planet. Get ready for a ground17
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for a groundbreaking memoir overflowing with action,
history, social commentary, and unchecked facts. Along
the way, there will be love, loss, cool drawings from Truth
Serum cartoonist Jon Adams, and some more unchecked
facts. And as a free promotion, we're offering a moneyback guarantee that this book will not disgrace Oprah.
channel, Channel 4.
Paradise Screwed
Carl Hiaasen
Number Freak:
From 1 to 200The Hidden Language of
Numbers Revealed
Derrick Niederman
W
hat do Fight Club, wallpaper patterns, George
Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions
have in common? They're all included in the entry for the
number 17 in this engaging book about numbers- detailing
their unique properties, patterns, appeal, history, and lore.
Author Derrick Niederman takes readers on a guided tour
of the numbers 1 to 300-covering everything from basic
mathematical principles to ancient unsolved theorems,
from sublime theory to delightfully arcane trivia.
C
arl Hiaasen takes you on a wide-ranging safari, observing south Florida's wildlife in its natural habitat —
from fat-cat politicians to migrating mobsters, drowning
dolphins to stray chads. This collection of Miami Herald
columns — written with a satiric wit and biting humor —
will give Hiaasen fans a glimpse of the facts that inspire his
frenetic fiction.
Philanthrocapitalism:
How Giving Can Save the
World
Matthew Bishop & Michael Green
Old Television
Andrew Emmerson
F
or philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists--the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give--it's like business. Largely trained
in the corporate world, these social investors are using bigbusiness-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match.
O
ld television embraces more than eighty years of
progress, from the crude experiments of John Logie
Baird in 1925, through the pioneering 405-line days at
Alexandra Palace just before the Second World War, to
the era when television entered most homes in the 1950s,
and the growing sophistication of the 1960s, with the introduction of 625-line colour transmissions. Andrew Emerson explores the British heritage of the black-and-white era
of television, and the first years of color up to the early
1980s and the launch of the popular British television
The Physics of Superheroes
James Kakalios
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T
Render Unto Caesar:
Serving the Nation by Living
Our Catholic Beliefs in
Political Life
he Physics of Superheroes applies the reality of
physics to the fantasy of comic books. James Kakalios explores the scientific plausibility of the powers and
feats of the most famous superheroes and discovers that in
many cases the comic writers got their science surprisingly
right.
Reading Together:
Everything You Need
to Know to Raise a Child
Who Loves to Read
Diane W. Frankenstein
T
his engaging guide shares advice for parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers on how to help children find what to read, and then through conversation,
how to find meaning and pleasure in their reading. With
more than 100 great book recommendations for kids from
Pre-K through grade six, as well as related conversation
starters, Reading Together offers a winning equation to
turn children into lifelong readers.
Charles J. Chaput
F
ew topics in recent years have ignited as much public
debate as the balance between religion and politics.
Does religious thought have any place in political discourse? Do religious believers have the right to turn their
values into political action? What does it truly mean to
have a separation of church and state? The very heart of
these important questions is here addressed by one of the
leading voices on the topic, Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop
of Denver.
The Rough Guide to
True Crime
Cathy Scott
Reagan: The Hollywood Years
Marc Eliot
Saving Dinner: The Menus,
Recipes, and Shopping Lists
to Bring Your Family Back to
the Table
Leanne Ely
T
he compelling biography of an American icons early
years–as an aspiring actor, Hollywood star, and family man. Ronald Reagan was one of the most powerful and
popular American presidents. The key to understanding
his political success and the remarkable likability and effortless charisma that made it possible lies embedded in
his early years as a Hollywood movie star.
F
rom Big Basil Burgers and Salmon Carbonara to
Crockpot Chili and Spicy Apricot Chicken, Saving
Dinner will have your family coming back to the table–and
back again for seconds! Thanks to Leanne Elys handy
cookbook and meal planning guide, tens of thousands of
people have already discovered that making dinner (and
shopping for food!) can be a stress-free endeavor. Say
goodbye to take-out and microwave fare and hello to tasty,
nutritious dishes.
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Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel: 100 Dirty Little MoneyGrubbing Secrets
Phil Villarreal
I
t's impossible to go a full day without using snark, so
why fight it? Snark is everywhere, from television to
movies to everyday life. This lively collection provides
hours of entertainment-better than an Etch A Sketch, and
more fun than Silly Putty At the heart of it, being in a state
of snark can be one of the most useful tools at one's disposal and hence (yes, I used hence), a powerful way to get
what you want.
Something for the Pain:
Compassion and Burnout
in the ER
P
hil Villarreal is not a Harvard MBA or a professional
financial advisor or a talking head on a cable television network focusing on business, but he can change your
financial life-if you are willing to move into the gray areas
of money and ethics. His advice is as funny as it is useful
as it is a little bit evil. Instead of playing straight and saving
money by cutting back on things you need or want, Secrets
of a Stingy Scoundrel has a better plan to save money by
working the system and sticking it to the man.
Shelf Discovery:
The Teen Classics
We Never Stopped Reading
Lizzie Skurnick
Paul Austin
I
n this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and
endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent him down a
path of bitterness and cynicism. Gritty, powerful, and ultimately redemptive, Something for the Pain is a revealing
glimpse into the fragility of compassion and sanity in the
industrial setting of today’s hospitals.
Stanley and Sophie
Kate Jennings
R
emember that book you read at that time in your life
when everything seemed to be going crazy the one
book that brought the world into focus and helped soothe
your raging teenage angst?
The Snark Handbook:
A Reference Guide to
Verbal Sparring
Lawrence Dorfman
S
o begins the story of Kate Jennings's unexpected love
affair with two border terriers, first Stanley, then, a few
years later, Sophie. A fiercely intelligent writer, an astute
observer of people and her surroundings, a recent widow
not ready to face her grief, an irascible Australian with no
time for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets,
Jennings falls hard. She is swept off her feet, stunned by
the depth of her love. Her life is suddenly overtaken by
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Surprised by God:
How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and
Love Religion
Stanley and, when she is seduced into getting him a companion, by the pair of them.
The Strongest Tribe:
War, Politics, and the
Endgame in Iraq
Danya Ruttenberg
Bing West
S
I
n Iraq, the United States made mistake after mistake.
Many Americans gave up on the war. Then two generals—David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno—displayed the
leadership America expected. Bringing the reader from
the White House to the fighting in the streets, combat
journalist and bestselling author Bing West explains this
astounding turnaround by U.S. forces.
urprised by God is a religious coming-of-age story,
from the mosh pit to the Mission District and beyond.
It's the memoir of a young woman who found, lost, and
found again communities of like-minded seekers, all the
while taking a winding, semi-reluctant path through traditional Jewish practice that eventually took her to the rabbinate. It's a post-dotcom, third-wave, punk-rock Seven
Storey Mountain--the story of integrating life on the edge
of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional
Judaism without sacrificing either.
Taste of Home Cookies
A Supremely Bad Idea:
Three Mad Birders and
Their Quest to See It All
Catherine Cassidy, ed.
Luke Dempsey
T
I
t began innocently enough, when two eccentric guests at
Luke Dempseys weekend home pointed out a small
bird flitting through his garden. Dempsey, entranced,
found himself falling head over heels. Before he knew it,
he and his friends were off on an epic birding journey
down the back roads of America, in search of the country’s rarest and most beautiful birds. A Supremely Bad
Idea is the hilarious story of their trip what WildBird
magazine calls “as close as we have to Bill Bryson’s A
Walk in the Woods.”
his keepsake book of cookie recipes from Taste of
Home contains over 600 delights-from simple chipfilled drop cookies and gooey, jam-packed sandwiches to
fudgy brownies and delicate buttery shortbreads.
The Thing Itself:
On the Search
for Authenticity
Richard Todd
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A
Waking Giant: America
in the Age of Jackson
deeply personal literary memoir that explores what
it means to live an authentic life in an increasingly
detached and self-conscious world. Incited by the feeling
that the essence of the modern world is buried beneath
the distractions of hype and melodrama, cultural critic
Richard Todd began a personal search for authenticity,
that elusive quality we often seek but seldom find. In The
Thing Itself, Todd attempts to discover for himself a new
way of thinking by asking the simple question: What is
true in ourselves and the world around us?
Thursday Night Is
Hearty Meat
Woman’s Day
David S. Reynolds
A
merica experienced unprecedented growth and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. It was an
age when Andrew Jackson redefined the presidency and
James K. Polk expanded the nation's territory. Bancroft
Prize–winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in
the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization.
Whole Green Catalog
T
he fourth in the Woman's DayEat-Well Cookbooks
of Meals in a Hurry series is the user-friendly cookbook for Thursday night's hearty meat dinner. Perfect for
the busy chef who wants to provide their family with a delicious and healthy meal, in about thirty minutes .
Michael W. Robbins, ed.
Ultimate Skiing
Ron LeMaster
A
B
reak through to the next level of ski performance
Renowned instructor, coach, and ski technique expert Ron LeMaster takes you beyond The Skier's Edge by
improving, expanding, and enhancing that seminal work.
The result, Ultimate Skiing, will help you master the mechanics of great skiing as never before--explaining how it's
done, showing how it looks, and describing how it feels.
s interest in living a sustainable life has exploded, so
has the green marketplace. It has become difficult to
distinguish companies that provide truly eco-friendly products and services from those that greenwash. Now, from
the company that founded Organic Gardening when eating close to the land was far from mainstream and published Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, comes this timely
guide to all things green.
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?:
Healing the Daughters of
Narcissistic Mothers
Karyl McBride, Ph.D.
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T
he first book specifically for daughters suffering from
the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself.
Women's Home
Workout Bible
D
iscover how to use a simple square of fabric to beautifully wrap gifts of any shape or size with Wrapagami. In this gorgeously photographed book, awardwinning designer Jennifer Playford, inspired by the traditional Japanese fabric wraps known as furoshiki, shows
exactly how to use fabric to create modern, eco-friendly
(they’re reusable) gift wraps.
Writing in the Dark:
Essays on Literature
and Politics
Brad Schoenfeld
David Grossman
S
hed unwanted weight, sculpt your physique, tone muscles, reduce joint pain, or simply be healthier and
more fit. Women's Home Workout Bible will show you
how--all in the privacy and comfort of your own home.
The World Is Curved:
Hidden Dangers to
the Global Economy
David M. Smick
T
T
hroughout his career, David Grossman has been a
voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and
its Arab citizens and neighbors. In these six essays on politics and culture in Israel, he addresses the conscience of a
country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. The
collection includes an already famous speech concerning
the disastrous Second Lebanon War of 2006, the war that
took the life of Grossman's twenty-one-year-old son, Uri.
he World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedmana’s The World Is Flat left off, taking readers on
an insider’s tour through the private offices of central
bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. Smick
reveals how today’s risky environment came to be and why
the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more
devastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions on
everyone’s mind: How bad could things really get in today’s volatile economy? And what can we do about it?
Wrapagami: The Art of
Fabric Gift Wraps
Jennifer Playford
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Isabel Fonseca
General Fiction
An Underachiever's Diary
Benjamin Anastas
A
M
eet William, a devout underachiever. He enters life
as the firstborn of identical twin boys. It is the last
time he will beat his overachieving brother Clive, or anyone else for that matter, at anything. This is William’s
manifesto for the underachiever. It is the chronicle of a
lifetime of failure — part diary and part handbook for selfdefeat. At once corrosively funny and surprisingly tender,
An Underachiever’s Diary is a classic tale of perverse perseverance.
fter more than twenty years of life in London, Jean
and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical
island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her
husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some
acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their
mutual ease is over - and a new quest has just begun.
Looking for answers, Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and
illuminating adventures of her own.
Breaking the Bank
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Ask for a Convertible
Danit Brown
M
A
wonderfully assured debut that ponders what it
means to be Israeli, to be American, or to be a little
bit of both. In these linked stories, Osnat Greenberg, a
slightly fatalistic, darkly funny, and utterly winning heroine,
struggles to find her place in the world. In the 1980s, Osnat has just moved to Ann Arbor from Tel Aviv. As the
perspective shifts among Osnat, her parents, and friends,
spanning fifteen years, shifting between Michigan and Tel
Aviv, and back again, Osnat tries (and often fails) to belong.
ia Saul is down on her luck. Dumped by her husband, jettisoned from her job, and estranged from
her adored older brother, she and her young daughter,
Eden, have had to make a downscale move to a crummy
apartment, where their neighbors include a tough young
drug dealer and a widower who lets his dogs use the hallways as their own personal litter box. Juggling a series of
temporary jobs, wrangling with her ex-husband over child
support, and trying to keep pace with Eden's increasingly
erratic behavior have left Mia weary and worn out. So
when a seemingly functional ATM starts handing Mia
thousands and thousands of dollars — and not deducting
the money from her account, because it sure isn't in there
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— she isn't about to give it back. Her newfound cash stash
opens up a world of opportunity, and a whole lot of trouble.
The Condition
ments he works in, Henry has devised a set of rules to
keep out of trouble. Over the course of one very complicated summer, Henry begins breaking those rules after he
takes on the houses and the lives of two very different
women who used to be friends.
Jennifer Haigh
The Conversion
Joseph Olshan
T
he Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a
proper New England family that comes apart during
one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the family,
Frank McKotch, an eminent scientist; his pedigreed wife,
Paulette; and their three beautiful children has embarked
on its annual vacation at the Captain's House, the grand
old family retreat on Cape Cod. One day on the beach,
Frank is struck by an image he cannot forget: his thirteenyear-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her childsized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger
cousin Charlotte. At that moment he knows a truth that he
can never again unknown something is terribly wrong with
his only daughter. The McKotch family will never be the
same.
Confessions of a Contractor
R
ussell Todaro, a young American translator, moves
to Paris to take stock of his life and goals only to further lose himself in the surprising twists fate has in store
for him. One night, two men waving guns and knives
break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell
and his much older companion, a famous American poet
named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what
they seemingly expected, leave without further incident but
the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies
in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder
the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poets unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own
life.
Joseph Olshan
The Distance Between Us
Bart Yates
A
sexy, page-turning novel about the combustible mix
that results when you blend desire, jealousy, and
home renovation written by a successful screenwriter and
former contractor. Henry Sullivan has spent fifteen years
renovating houses for wealthy women in Los Angeles. To
distance himself from his clients and the intimate environ-
H
ester Parker resides in an elegant Victorian house in
the town of Bolton, Illinois. She spends her evenings listening to the lush tones of Mahler and Chopin,
drinking sub-par Merlot, and reflecting on a life that has
suddenly fallen apart. At seventy-one, Hester is as brilliant
and sharp-tongued as ever, capable of inspiring her music
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students to soaring heights or reducing them to tears with a
single comment. But her wit can't hide the bitterness that
comes with loss—the loss of her renowned violinist husband, Arthur Donovan, who left her for another woman,
and the loss of her career as a concert pianist after injuring
her wrist. When Hester decides to rent out the attic apartment to Alex, a young college student, she has no idea of
the impact he will have on her life and her family.
Nic Brown
The Dreams
Naguib Mahfouz
L
ystra, North Carolina. A fictional town full of very
real people who survive the attack of Hurricane
Hugo and then find their bearings in the aftermath—often
in wild and hilarious ways.
Goldengrove
Francine Prose
I
n his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib
Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of
dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two
books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure, here combined in one volume for the first time.
Family Affair
Caprice Crane
A
fter the sudden death of her beloved older sister,
thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to
grope toward understanding, she falls into a seductive,
dangerous relationship with her sister's boyfriend. Over
one haunted summer, Nico faces that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer
help them as she experiences the mystery of loss and recovery.
A Guide to the Birds
of East Africa
Nicholas Drayson
W
hoever said you cant choose your family never
met Layla. When her husband asks for a divorce,
she chooses to keep his family–but he’s not giving them up
without a fight.
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or the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in
love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the
weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), Harry Khan, a
nemesis from his school days, arrives in town. Khan has
also become enraptured with Rose and announces his intent to invite her to the Ball. Rather than force Rose to
choose between the two men, a clever solution is proposed. Whoever can identify the most species of birds in
one weeks time gets the privilege of asking Ms. Mbikwa to
the ball.
W
here Gilead was an introspective masterpiece of
reflection and contemplation, Home is a refreshingly honest portrait of familial relationships over time.
House and Home
Kathleen McCleary
Hard Rain Falling
Don Carpenter
E
llen Flanagan has two precious girls to raise, a cozy
neighborhood coffee shop to run, terrific friends, and
a sexy, if irresponsible, husband. And she adores her
house, a yellow Cape Cod filled with quirky antiques, beloved nooks, and a million memories. But as her eighteenyear-roller-coaster marriage heads toward divorce, she’s
about to lose it all, her house, her husband . . . and her
sanity.
How I Became a Famous
Novelist
T
he NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and
non-fiction from different eras and times and of various
sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and
experimental novels, reportage and belles lettres, tell-all
memoirs and learned studies, established classics and cult
favorites, literature high, low, unsuspected, and unheard
of. NYRB Classics are, to a large degree, discoveries, the
kind of books that people typically run into outside of the
classroom and then remember for life.
Home
Marilynne Robinson
Steve Hely
W
hat Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of
sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will
allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a
scenic lake; and — perhaps most importantly — the chance
to humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding. This is the
story of how he succeeds in getting it all, and what it costs
him in the end.
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How Perfect Is That
Sarah Bird
T
he novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by
lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river;
a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father’s
death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their
two daughters.
I Never Fancied Him Anyway
Claudia Carroll
W
hen you're perfect, you can’t falter...Because if
you do, the piranhas will get you. Blythe Young,
Austin socialite, has two secrets she can't allow to escape:
she's actually high-flying trailer trash, and her divorce left
her penniless. Before becoming Mrs. Henry Trey BiggsDix III, Blythe owned the exclusive catering company
Wretched Xcess, and for the second time she's determined to fake it 'til she makes it — passing off warehouse
club taquitos as Petites Tournedos Bearnaise a la Mexicaine and relying on her own private concoction of Stoli
and pharmaceuticals as a substitute for sleep.
How to Paint a Dead Man
Sarah Hall
C
assandra can see the future with 100% accuracy . . .
for everybody except herself. Ever since Cassandra
was a little girl, she's had a remarkable psychic gift. Now a
successful columnist for a weekly magazine, she predicts
the future with uncanny precision. And thanks to her stunning co-worker Charlene—and the latest love of Charlene's
life, hot television producer Jack—Cassandra's moving up .
. . to daytime TV!
I'm So Happy for You:
A Novel about Best Friends
Lucinda Rosenfeld
T
he lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind
girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine
across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching
novel of extraordinary power.
Hunger:
A Novella and Stories
Lan Samantha Chang
W
endy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has
always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal
to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when
Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a
fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is...not so
happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best
friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of
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The Order of Good Cheer
flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend-all the while wearing her best, I'm-so-happy-for-you smile-and ends up in
way over her head.
Bill Gaston
The Million Dollar
Deception
RM Johnson
A
A
lmost five years after his critically acclaimed novel
The Million Dollar Divorce, Essence bestselling author RM Johnson returns with the sequel that fans have
been waiting for...and in The Million Dollar Deception,
Nate Kenny, Lewis Waters, and Monica Kenny still have
not buried the hatchet. When readers last closed the book
on Nate Kenny, his scheming had backfired, and he not
only lost a great fortune in a messy divorce but his wife
ended up with the very man he paid off to seduce her into
infidelity. Now, four years later, it's time for payback.
bold and visionary work by one of our most celebrated writers, The Order of Good Cheer tells two
powerful stories separated by the breadth of a continent
and exactly 400 years. The first follows legendary explorer
and map-maker Samuel de Champlain and his companions, who struggle to endure the long, harsh winter of 1607
in the "new world." Bridging the divide across land and
time is twenty-first-century blue-collar worker Andy Winslow, who lives in the Pacific Northwest and shares a hauntingly similar sense of the fragility, grandeur, and ironies of
life.
Pop Tart
Kira Coplin
Misconception
Ryan Boudinot
A
R
yan Boudinot's story collection The Littlest Hitler
was an Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly Book
of the Year choice, and established him as one of the most
promising talents of a new generation of American writers.
With Misconception, Boudinot has delivered a startlingly
original debut novel — on one hand a smart and provocative coming-of-age story, on the other a fresh and witty
comment on the unreliability of memory and storytelling
— that is sure to command attention.
n eager, aspiring make-up artist, Jackie O'Reilly has
always dreamed of a high-profile Hollywood career—
and now fate has made her fantasy a glittering reality. Filling in at the last minute for her boss, Jackie finds herself
working with America's newest sweetheart—wild and glamorous Brooke Parker, who's on the brink of superstardom.
Jackie's right where she's always wanted to be: in the entourage of an "it-girl," a globe-trotting world of private jets, long
white limos and all-night parties. Brooke is fun and real,
but also impetuous and unpredictable. And when the pop
princess begins to unravel, Jackie will have to decide
where her true loyalties lie—or become a victim of the unrelenting chaos of the twenty-four-hour media circus.
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The Private Lives of
Pippa Lee
Requiem, Mass.
John Dufresne
Rebecca Miller
T
rading Manhattan's Gramercy Park for a mindnumbing retirement community, Pippa Lee's aging
husband sends his youngish wife into the doldrums. At
fifty, Pippa is not yet ready to relinquish her stimulating
life in the city. And what a life it's been.
Reconsidering Happiness
J
ohn Dufresne takes us to Requiem, Massachusetts,
where Johnny’s mom is driving in the breakdown lane
once again. Dad is down South somewhere living his secret life. And little sister Audrey, when she’s not walking
her cat Deluxe in a baby stroller, spends her time locked
in a closet. Johnny, meanwhile, is hell-bent on saving the
family from itself.
Sherrie Flick
Revenge of the
Mooncake Vixen:
A Manifesto in 41 Tales
Marilyn Chin
T
he two silent Ss of Des Moines beckon twenty-threeyear-old Vivette with a sexy finger, a promise. So, in
the mid-1990s, she convinces Grandpa Joe-Joe to sell his
Buick for twenty dollars, leaves behind her friends, her job
at a hip New England bakery, and an affair with a married
man, and moves to Iowa. Margaret, who left the same bakery years earlier on her own restless quest, offers pointers
from her cautiously settled Nebraska life. In a story of lust
and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, these two
pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions,
and compromises shared over pool tables, postcards, and
shots of whiskey.
R
aucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are
known as the 'double happiness' Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a 'crappy donkey-van' and
deliver Americanized ('bad') Chinese food to homes
throughout their southern California neighborhood.
United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the
Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality,
even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They
transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the
influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage.
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S
Sing Them Home
Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes
Stephanie Kallos
Tamar Yellin
ing Them Home is a deeply moving portrait of three
grown siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's mysterious disappearance
when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's
wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along
with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young
children, the stability of life with their distant, preoccupied
father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire best friend, is
no match for their mother's absence.
Socialite Evenings
D
eeply melancholy with a streak of dark humor,
award-winning author Tamar Yellin presents this
haunting collection of linked stories that examine the heart
of human longing and ask the question: Where do we belong? Taking its imagery from the legend of the exiled ten
tribes of Israel, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes follows the
life-journey of an enigmatic narrator who encounters a
series of displaced persons, bringing to light the narrator's
own remarkable wanderlust. With each encounter the narrator inevitably moves on, dreaming of home, unable to
resist the lure of the world's labyrinth…
Shobhaa De
Travel Writing
Peter Ferry
A
novel about Mumbai's elite, as seen through the
wide eyes of a young woman, from one of India's
most renowned bestselling authors. Shedding her middleclass past, Karuna has found her place in high society. But
with her upward climb came many lows. Now battered,
but not beaten, she seeks to heal her soul by sharing her
story, offering a rare glimpse at an all-consuming world of
power and greed…
P
ete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in
the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and
moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work
one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident?
Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen,
or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the
power of story to his teenage students? Why cant he stop
thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession
with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend,
Lydia?
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We Are Now Beginning Our
Descent
James Meek
to be valued. Montalbetti’s daring theft of movie technique
and subversion of a genre where women are usually relegated to secondary roles—victims, prostitutes, widows,
schoolmarms—makes Western a remarkable wake for the
most basic of American mythologies.
What She Wants
Cathy Kelly
A
dam Kellas, a British journalist, would-be thriller
novelist, and failed lover meets Astrid Walsh, a selfpossessed, hard-charging reporter while the two are covering allied military operations in the Afghan mountains.
After sharing one passionate night in a watchtower near a
defunct airfield, Astrid disappears from Kellas’s life. A
year later, following a disastrous dinner party in London
during which he destroys his few remaining friendships,
Kellas receives a short, beseeching e-mail and hastily embarks on a trans-Atlantic journey to a small town near the
Chesapeake Bay where he believes Astrid waits for him.
Kellas envisions the fresh start that his new life with Astrid
might offer, unaware that she may be harboring unsettling
secrets of her own.
Western
Christine Montalbetti
H
ope Parker is married to gorgeous Matt, has two
enchanting toddlers (even if little Millie wants to run
the family), and a successful job. But childhood insecurities keep Hope worrying that she's not good enough.
When Matt suddenly decides to take a sabbatical from his
high-paying ad agency and move the family to a tiny cottage in County Kerry, she agrees despite crushing doubts.
Strangely, though, it is Matt who flounders in Ireland: The
book he's always wanted to write is depressingly wooden,
and the writer's life is not all he's dreamed of. Hope, on
the other hand, is flourishing in the village of Redlion, falling in with a wonderful pair of Irish women: town pharmacist Mary-Kate and her niece, Delphine, who take
Hope and another newcomer, the widowed Virginia Connell, under their wings.
S
etting out to tell the story of a mysterious cowboy—a
stranger in town with a terrible secret—Christine
Montalbetti is continually sidetracked by the details that
occur to her along the way, her CinemaScope camera focusing not on the gunslinger’s grim and determined eyes,
but on the insects crawling in the dust by his boots. A collection of the moments usually discarded in order to tell
even the simplest and most familiar story, Western presents us with the world behind the clichés, where the
much-anticipated violence of the plot is continually, maddeningly delayed, and no moment is too insignificant not
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Darcy's Temptation:
A Sequel to the
Fitzwilliam Darcy Story
Historical Fiction
Regina Jeffers
Acres of Unrest
Max Brand
R
I
njured in an accident at college, Peter Hale can no
longer work his father's ranch, but he has a plan to give
the homestead an infusion of cash-a plan no one would
expect a cripple to pull off.
omantic and insightful, Darcy's Temptation captures
the original style and sardonic wit of Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice while weaving its beloved characters
into an exciting new tale. In a story set against the backdrop of the British abolitionist movement, family difficulties and social affairs weigh heavily on the newlyweds, and
a dramatic turn of events forces Elizabeth to try to recapture Darcy's love before the manipulative Cecelia
McFarland succeeds in luring him away.
Colonel Brandon's Diary
Doubtful Canon
Amanda Grange
Johnny D. Boggs
A
vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange's
sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen's best-loved novels. At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's world is shattered when the girl he loves, Eliza, is
forced to marry his brother. In despair, he joins the army
and leaves England for the East Indies for the next several
years. Upon his return, he finds Eliza in a debtor's prison.
He rescues her from her terrible situation, but she is dying
of consumption and he can do nothing but watch and wait.
Heartbroken at her death, he takes some consolation in
her illegitimate daughter, who he raises as his ward. But at
the age of fifteen, his ward goes missing. Devastated by the
thought of what could have happened to her, he is surprised to find himself falling in love with Marianne Dashwood. But Marianne is falling in love with the charismatic
Willoughby…
T
hree twelve-year-olds, two notorious gunfighters, a
half-crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie for
$30,000 in gold coin, buried twenty years ago in treacherous Doubtful Cañon.
The Glimmer Palace
Beatrice Colin
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n the tradition of Michel Faber and Sarah Waters, a
literary historical novel about an orphan girl as journey
from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up
to World War II, and the innovations in art and industry
that accompanied it all.
and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect
the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted
Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled
from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick.
Niki: The Story of a Dog
The Private Papers of
Eastern Jewel
Tibor Dery
Maureen Lindley
T
he Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the
outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is
just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World
War II. The new Communist government promises to set
things straight, and Mr. Ancsa, an engineer, is as eager to
get to work building the future as he is to forget the past.
The last thing he has time for is a little mongrel bitch,
pregnant with her first litter. But Niki knows better, and
before long she is part of the Ancsa household. The Ancsas even take her along with them when Mr. Ancsas new
job requires a move to an apartment in the city. Then Mr.
Ancsa is swept up in a political crackdown disappearing
without a trace. For five years he does not return, five
years of absence, silence, fear, and the constant struggle to
survive five years during which Mrs. Ancsa and Niki have
only each other.
P
eking, 1914. When the eight-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her fathers liaison with a
servant girl, she is banished from the palace, sent to live
with a powerful family in Japan. Renamed Yoshiko Kawashima, she quickly falls in love with her adoptive country,
where she earns a scandalous reputation, taking fencing
lessons, smoking opium, and entertaining numerous lovers. Sent to Mongolia to become an obedient wife, Yoshiko mounts a daring escape and eventually finds her way
back to Peking high society—this time with orders from the
Japanese secret service.
Who Would Have Thought It?
Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
The Other Queen
Philippa Gregory
M
T
his dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times
bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new
aría Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican
American woman to write novels in English and the
first nineteenth-century California writer to publish a novel
in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her first
book, Who Would Have Thought It?, tells the story of
Lola, a young, orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian
captors by one Dr. Norval, who returns with Lola to his
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New England home. Though the townspeople initially
shun the interloper, they become transfixed by Lola once
word about the gold accompanying her gets out. Through
the riveting personal story of a young girl's coming-of-age,
Who Would Have Thought It? offers a stunning portrayal
of the clash of cultures and communities, and a fresh perspective on Civil War America.
S
cientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attack the facility where her team was working on
a top secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed
building, Marion must stop radioactive test samples from
leaking out and killing millions.
The Bone Factory
Nate Kenyon
Mystery/Suspense
Alpha Female
April Christofferson
T
J
ustice in Yellowstone National Park comes in two
forms: Annie Peacock, a beautiful young judge who is
the head of the park's judicial system, and Will McCarroll,
long-time backcountry ranger who is obsessed with stopping poachers. Will's willingness to break every rule in the
book has earned him a formidable reputation and Annie's
disdain. Then Annie's mother is kidnapped. When Will
tries to help find her, a shocking attraction between Annie
and Will starts to sizzle and then burn. But when Will
learns of a plan for trophy hunters to shoot the park's
cherished alpha female wolf, he disappears into the back
country to stop them. And it's there, in the wilderness of
Yellowstone, that Will discovers the true extent of the danger to Annie's mother and to Yellowstone itself.
Blind Eye
Jan Coffey
he biggest news in the small northern town of Jackson was the reopening of the local hydropower plant.
Until the deaths. First a farmer was found horribly mutilated in his field. Then a little girl disappeared from her
home. Deep in the woods a deputy came upon a chamber
of horrors straight from a nightmare. And through it all,
one child is haunted by visions of the mysterious “blue
man,” a madman who brings with him blood and pain and
terror, a terror spawned by forces no one can understand.
Bury Me Deep
Megan Abbott
I
n October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks
abandoned in Los Angeles's Southern Pacific Station.
What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous
tabloid sensations of the decade. A story born of Jazz Age
decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me
Deep — with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting
loyalties — is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire
and the glimmer of redemption.
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A Catered Halloween
Isis Crawford
tains, she finds fate has another shock in store for her.
Amid the smoke, rubble, and tears, Sean McCloud appears, calling her name. He's every inch the man he always
was—the man she kept on wanting. But wanting is not the
same as trusting, and she doesn't dare let him get too
close. Yet a ruthless killer is gunning for Liv, and she'll die
unless they join forces to unearth a chilling truth—and
come together in a blaze of searing passion. . .
Empire of Lies
S
Andrew Klavan
isters Bernadette and Libby Simmons are thrilled
they've been asked to cater a haunted house fundraiser. But they soon discover that ghosts aren't the only
unwanted guests when a murderer strikes...
Critical Action
Peter Telep
S
W
hen the Triple Nickel force is sent to investigate
rumors of al-Qaeda fighters sneaking into Afghanistan from Pakistan, they hit the jackpot. Sheikh Abu
Hassan, the new al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, is in a
safe house and the men of ODA 555 have the opportunity
to nail this top-priority target. But their daring will lead
them into conflict with a rogue band of CIA officers-and
put the Triple Nickel at the site of the first Iranian nuclear
test.
ustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has
built a stable family and become a pillar of principle
and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and
his past is on the other end of the line. A woman with
whom he once shared a life of violence and desire claims
her daughter is missing — and Jason is the one man who
can find her.
Fan Mail
P.D. Martin
Edge of Midnight
Shannon McKenna
G
O
n the very day an arsonist burns down Liv Endicott's
bookstore in a small town in the Washington moun-
etting into a killer's mind is both a blessing and a
curse for FBI profiler Sophie Anderson. The agent
suffers through brutal premonitions in order to save lives.
Now a resident of Los Angeles, Sophie is working on a
case where fiction has become fatal. A popular crime
writer is sexually mutilated, strangled and marked with an
eerie lipstick kiss...just like the crime scene in the dead
author's last book.
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Flesh
Richard Laymon
S
omething deadly has come to town—a slimy, slithering…thing like nothing anyone has seen before. With
its dull eyes and its hideous mouth, it’s always hunting for
a new host to burrow into, and humans are the perfect
prey. But the truly shocking part is not what it does to you
when it invades your body—it’s what it makes you do to
others.
W
inner of the American Mystery Award for Best
Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic
Times Award for Best Historical Mystery .Miss Irene
Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is also a superb detective, as
Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. Even Holmes
himself must admit--albeit grudgingly--that she acquits herself competently. But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty. The Crown Prince of Bohemia--tall, blonde,
and handsome--proves to be a cad. Will dashing barrister
Godfrey Norton be able to convince Irene that not all
handsome men are cut from the same broadcloth?
His Father's Son
Bentley Little
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
S
M
ikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher
of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a
story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation
between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating wellknown and highly placed members of Swedish society,
business, and government. But he has no idea just how
explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication,
the two investigating reporters are murdered.
teve Nye’s quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he
receives a call from his mother. His father attacked
her and has been committed to an asylum. The doctor
says he’s suffering from dementia. But Steve’s father
seems so calm, clear-eyed, and lucid when he whispers, I
killed her. Is it simply symptom of his father’s delusion
and madness?
Hostile Intent
Michael Walsh
Good Night, Mr. Holmes
Carole Nelson Douglas
I
t starts with the most horrific act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Only one man can stop them.
Code named Devlin, he exists only in the blackest shadows of the United States government -- operating off the
grid as the NSA's top agent. He's their most lethal
weapon . . . and their most secret. But someone is trying to
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Just After Sunset
draw him out into the open by putting America's citizens
in the crosshairs -- until they get what they want.
Stephen King
Hostile Takeovers
Michael A. Black
S
omething’s happening in the underworld of Cook
County. Tensions are rising between two rival drug
lords, and the streets are their battleground. Sergeant
Frank Leal and his former partner, Olivia “Ollie” Hart, get
involved when one of their informants turns up dead with
his ear cut off. When one drug lord decides it’s time to
eliminate the competition completely, the takeover becomes very hostile indeed. As blood flows in the gutters
and retaliation rules the day, Leal and Hart have to stop
two criminal armies before they meet in an all-out war.
S
tephen King — who has written more than fifty books,
dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers,
and many unforgettable movies — delivers an astonishing
collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago.
L'Assassin
Peter Steiner
Ice
Stephanie Rowe
F
M
ost people find beauty in Alaska’s austere mountains. To Kaylie Fletcher, there is only death—her
whole family gone after a disastrous climbing expedition.
Then again, maybe not. A raspy call in the middle of the
night leads Kaylie to believe her mother might still be
alive. For now…
rom the critically acclaimed author of Le Crime, published in hardcover as A French Country Murder,
comes this electrifying sequel featuring former CIA operative Louis Morgon and his partner-in-crime-solving, Jean
Renard, the gendarme of their small French village.
Louis Morgon is living a quiet life of good food, good
wine, and good friends. When his house is burglarized, he
thinks nothing of it. But the burglar and the motive for the
burglary are not as simple as they seem. And the consequences of the seemingly trivial break-in will lead Louis
and his loved ones to the end of the earth---and quite possibly to the end of their lives.
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The Last Centurion
The Outcast Dove:
A Catherine Levendeur
Mystery
John Ringo
Sharan Newman
I
n the second decade of the twenty-first century the
world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age
and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous
experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character
known to history as “Bandit Six” an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland despite the best efforts of
politicians both elected and military.
T
he Outcast Dove is the ninth title in Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendeur mystery series. In these
well-researched novels filled with fascinating details of medieval life, Newman conveys the sounds, smells, and human concerns of twelfth-century France and creates characters who seem to have just stepped off the streets of medieval Paris.
The Pawn
Losers Live Longer
Steven James
Russell Atwood
T
he death of legendary private eye George Rowell
looked like an accident—but searching for the truth
behind it will put down-and-out East Village detective
Payton Sherwood on the corpse-littered trail of a runaway
investment scam artist, a drug-addicted reality TV star—
and the bewitching beauty whose appearance set it all in
motion...
The Midnight Room
Ed Gorman
A
A
s an environmental criminologist, Patrick Bowers
uses 21st-century geospatial technology to analyze
the time and space in which a crime takes place. Using an
array of factors, Bowers can pinpoint clues to solve the
toughest of cases. Bowers's skills have made him one of
the FBI's top agents-until now. Called to the mountains of
North Carolina to consult on a gruesome murder, Bowers
finds himself in a deadly duel with a serial killer who
seems to transcend Patrick's analytical powers. Forced to
track the killer's horrific murders one by one, Bowers
finds his techniques and instincts are put to the ultimate
test…
blackmailer is playing with fire when he makes a
terrifying serial killer his target.
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Poppy Done to Death
Rough & Tumble
Charlaine Harris
Mark Bravaro
N
ot just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia, gets to
be a member of the Uppity Women Book Club.
But Roe's stepsister-in-law Poppy has climbed her way up
the waiting list of the group — only to die on the day she’s
supposed to be inducted. Sordid stories of infidelity in
Poppy's marriage lead to a rash of suspects, and Roe begins to question her own heart. But her passion for the
truth will drive her on — into the path of the cold-blooded
killer.
I
nspired by his years shedding blood and sweat playing
in the National Football League, Rough & Tumble is
Mark Bavaros novel about the brutal world of the NFL—
and a classic sports story of one mans determination and
grit.
Totally Killer
Greg Olear
The Potted Gardener
M.C. Beaton
T
aylor Schmidt — twenty-three, single, and jobless —
arrives in the Big Apple desperate for work and hungry for love. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment
Agency she finds the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend...but perfection has its price. Part thriller, part satire,
part period piece, Totally Killer is a total page-turner.
Tsar
W
hen Agatha Raisin comes home to cozy Carsely
and finds that a new woman has piqued the interest of her handsome bachelor neighbor, James Lacey,
she’s less than thrilled. The beautiful newcomer to the
Cotswolds, Mary Fortune, is superior in every way especially when it comes to gardening and Agatha is suddenly
seeing nothing but green. If only a nice juicy murder
would come along to remind James of Agatha’s genius for
investigation. When a series of mysterious assaults on the
towns finest gardens is followed by a shocking murder,
Agatha gets her wish.
Ted Bell
T
here dwells, somewhere in Russia, a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is
only speculated upon, only whispered about in American
corridors of power and CIA strategy meetings. Though he
is all but invisible, he is pulling strings — and pulling them
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Mystery/Suspense
hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous
threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever
thought possible.
War Games: Kill Zone
Vicki Hinze
D
r. Morgan Cabot—the intuitive psychologist head of
a new Secret Assignment Security Specialist corps—
moves her unit front and center to combat the latest attack
by terrorist and black market intelligence broker Thomas
Kunz in this latest captivating thriller.
The Wings of the Sphinx
Andrea Camilleri
T
hings are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the
rocks and-acutely aware of his age-he is beginning to grow
weary of the endless violence he encounters. Then a
young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and
only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint of her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked girls-all
victims of the underworld sex trade-who have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a prominent
Catholic charity. The problem is, Montalbano's inquiries
elicit an outcry from the Church and the three other girls
are all missing.
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Romance
Hidden Currents
Christine Feehan
Romance
An Angel in Provence
Nancy Robards Thompson
I
S
he's landed a dream project: transforming an eighteenth-century rectory in Avignon into a summer
home. But the client insists on hiring local furniture artisan
Philippe Beaulieu--young, eccentric, irritatingly... French.
Their styles couldn't be more different; his ultramodern
designs definitely clash with Rita's classic tastes. But as the
saying goes, Vive la difference .
n her Drake Sisters novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan delivers "everything her
fans have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly). Now, she
exceeds expectations as the fate of all seven sisters depends on the destiny of one.
Romancing the Pirate
Michelle Beattie
Chemistry for Beginners
Anthony Strong
A
pirate attack during her childhood left Alicia Davidson with a scar on her beautiful face and memory
loss. But now she longs to find the sister she lost. And only
one man can help her: pirate Blake Merritt-a man with
demons of his own.
D
r. Steven J. Fisher thinks he has love down to an
exact science. A brilliant young biochemist whose
closest friend is a bonobo ape named Lucy, Dr. Fisher
spends his time in an Oxford research lab studying orgasms — watching them, listening to them, analyzing them
— in his quest to find the first cure for female sexual dysfunction, a Viagra-like pill for women. But for all his candor about human sexuality in the lab, he is really a shy
scientist, a beginner in the ways of love.
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
different, something out of place: the female soldier
known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keijis
escape, or to his final death?
Ariel
Steven R. Boyett
Alive in Necropolis
Doug Dorst
I
C
olma, California, the cemetery city serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is
also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie
cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead,
he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his
predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his
last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer
attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his
own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's
more famous residents are not resting in peace as they
should be.
t’s been five years since the lights went out, cars stopped
in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming
Earth. Pete Garey survived the Change, trusting no one
but himself until the day he met Ariel, a unicorn who
brought new meaning and adventure to his life.
Dark Road Rising
P.N. Elrod
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaki
V
ampire P.I. Jack Fleming is playing babysitter to
Gabriel Whitey Kroun, a dangerously unstable mobster-and newly-created vampire-with deadly secrets to hide.
As Jack tries to unravel the mystery surrounding Kroun's
undead state, he gets caught between his charge's violent
outbursts and some syndicate torpedoes looking to rub
them both out, leaving him vulnerable to an even deadlier
threat- the return of an old enemy desperate to unlock the
secrets of Jack's vampire immortality.
L
to R (Western Style). There’s one thing worse than
dying. Its coming back to do it again and again…
When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of
many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and
sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find
himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and
again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Death's Head:
Maximum Offense
Dust to Dust
Heather Graham
David Gunn
W
ith Death's Head, David Gunn rocketed onto the
scene in the most explosive and entertaining science fiction debut since Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon. Now Gunn is back-and so is Sven Tveskoeg: antisocial, antihero, anti-you-name-it, a one-man killing spree
whose best friend is an intelligent handgun with a bad attitude and whose worst enemy is, well, just about everybody
else.
N
ot long ago, Scott Bryant would have described himself as an ordinary guy. But one act of heroism has
changed his life forever--or at least until the apocalypse
occurs. Because the end of the world is on its way. Suddenly and inexplicably possessed of superhuman strength,
Scott finds himself allied with the enigmatic and alluring
Melanie Regan in a quest to find the mysterious Oracle in
hopes of averting the absolute destruction that threatens.
Eve of Chaos
The Demon Redcoat:
Traitor to the Crown #03
S.J. Day
C.C. Finley
T
he War of Independence appears to have no end in
sight. Discouraged by the bloodshed and suffering
their magic can do nothing to prevent, Proctor and his
wife, Deborah, dream of starting a family. But when Deborah gives birth, a powerful demon called Balfri, summoned by the secret society of European witches known
as the Covenant, tries to possess the child. Though the
attack in unsuccessful, it makes Proctor and Deborah realize that there can be no safety for them, or for anyone,
until the Covenant is destroyed.
H
ow do you tell Satan that you ran over his dog?
Evangeline Hollis has no idea, and she doesn’t
want to find out. She’d rather forget the Infernal that
nearly wiped out her training class and killed some of the
best demon hunting Marks in the world. Living with the
Mark of Cainand the two sexy brothers who come with it
is trouble enough. Satan has put a bounty on Eves head,
and Hells denizens are converging on Southern California.
The Infernals are complicating Eves hunts and creating
chaos in her once orderly life. They’ve also brought her to
the attention of an overzealous reverend who’s certain
she’s Jezebel reincarnate.
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Frostbite:
A Werewolf Tale
Patriots
David Drake
David Wellington
T
here's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when
she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl.
When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the
bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster
that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the
only one who can understand what Chey has become is
the man–or wolf–who's doomed her to this fate. He also
wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction
between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just
the victim she appears to be. But once she's within killing
range, she may find that–even for a werewolf–it's not always easy to go for the jugular.
T
he corrupt Earth government is sending an army to
Greenwood to remove the pioneers who discovered
and settled the planet: the potential profits are too great to
leave the world to scraggly neer-do-wells! Though the rugged individualists of Greenwood may be fractious and disinclined to agree on most things, the greedy politicians of
Earth will learn a harsh lesson if they think the settlers
wont join together to save their livelihoods and homes!
Under Yerby Bannock, who never walked away from a
drink or a fight, the Greenwood patriots will face thugs in
the night, lawyers in a distant court, traitors in their own
ranks-- And, if they have to, a fortress built to shrug off the
assault of a battlefleet!
The Island at the
End of the World
The Prince of Frogs
Annaliese Evans
Sam Taylor
I
n a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods, one
family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters
rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and
drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a quiet
idyll of music and farming-and young Alice, Finn, and
Daisy are grateful for their salvation-until the day a stranger
swims ashore. A terrifyingly plausible adventure story, The
Island at the End of the World is a mesmerizing novel
from an exciting new writer.
R
osemarie Barrows has successfully defeated an ogre
uprising that threatened the lives of humans and supernaturals alike. Now she’s trying to forget her lingering
attraction to her handsome Fey advisor, Ambrose Minuit,
and settle in to life with her new husband, Gareth, Lord
Shenley. Unfortunately, Gareth’s suspicious behavior is
driving a wedge between the newlyweds. Gareth Barrows is
hiding an old secret, a problem he thought he’d already
resolved--and would never have to reveal. But his past has
come back to haunt him, placing his future, his marriage,
and his very life at risk.
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Promise of the Wolves
A Sense of Infinity
Dorothy Hearst
Howard L. Myers
B
orn of a forbidden mixed-blood litter and an outcast
after her mother is banished, Kaala is determined to
earn a place in the Swift River pack. But her world is
turned upside down when she saves a human girl from
drowning. Risking expulsion from their pack and exile
from the Wide Valley, Kaala and her young packmates
begin to hunt with the humans and thus discover the longhidden bond between the two clans. But when war between wolves and humans threatens, Kaala learns the lies
behind the wolf 's promise. Lies that force her to choose
between safety for herself and her friends and the survival
of her pack — and perhaps of all wolf- and humankind.
I
n a post-apocalyptic world, telepaths are common, but
young Starn had no trace of telepathic ability, and was
persecuted by those who had the talent until he discovered
he possessed an even more unusual ability. A criminal
mastermind has been captured by the Space Patrol, and a
Patrol ship is carrying him to a prison planet. Escape
seems impossible, but he has a secret weapon. Its only
water but water with a very unusual property.
Staked
J.F. Lewis
Retribution
Jeanne C. Stein
E
W
ith her partner out of town, her family abroad,
and her mentor estranged, newly-turned vampire
Anna Strong is keeping a low profile. But now young vampires are turning up dead, completely drained of their life
force. And though Anna wants to say no when Williams,
her former teacher and now leader of a supernatural enforcement squad, asks for her help, she can't. But soon,
she'll wish she did.
ric's got issues. He has short-term and long-term
memory problems; he can't remember who he ate for
dinner yesterday, much less how he became a vampire in
the first place. His best friend, Roger, is souring on the
strip club he and Eric own together. And his girlfriend,
Tabitha, keeps pressuring him to turn her so she can join
him in undeath. It's almost enough to put a Vlad off his
appetite. Almost.
The Strangely Beautiful
Tale of Miss Percy Parker
Leanna Renee Hieber
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy
T
he albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian
London’s Athens Academy will learn not only to
deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in
the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.
alien Builders hangs in the balance.
Vampire a Go-Go
Victor Gischler
Unbound
Kim Harrison, Melissa Marr, Jeaniene
Frost, Vicki Pettersson, Jocelynn Drake
R
evisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous
in their wildly popular fiction, New York Timesbestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake—plus New York Timesbestselling YA author Melissa Marr with her first adult supernatural thriller—unleash their full arsenal of dark talents,
plunging us into the shadows where the supernatural stalk
the unsuspecting . . . and every soul is a target.
V
ictor Gischler is a master of the class-act literary
spoof, and his work has drawn comparison to that of
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.
Now, Gischler turns his attention to werewolves, alchemists, ghosts, witches, and gun-toting Jesuit priests in Vampire a Go-Go, a hilarious romp of spooky, Gothic entertainment.
Usurper of the Sun
Housuke Nojiri
L
to R (Western Style). The mysterious Builders have
brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they
be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club
and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event; someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the
Builders have constructed a ring around the sun, threatening the ecology of Earth with an immense shadow. Aki is
inspired to pursue a career in science, and the truth. She
must determine the purpose of the ring and the plans of its
creators, as the survival of both species, humanity and the
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